April 28-30, 2005, Kellogg West Conference Center

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California

We invite the submission of applied research papers to the 4th Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2005, which will be held on April 28-30, 2005 at the Kellogg West Conference Center at Cal Poly Pomona in Pomona, California.  For further information, visit www.csupomona.edu/wtsi.

The Wireless Telecommunications Symposium brings together industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities around the world to exchange information on advances in mobile communications and wireless networking technology, applications, management, and security. Past WTS participants have included Dr. Irwin Jacobs, CEO of QUALCOMM, John Muleta, Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, and Michael Gallagher, Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Organizations represented have included Bell Laboratories, Verizon Wireless, Gartner, SBC Communications, IBM Research, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo Labs,  Motorola, QUALCOMM, SAIC, Broadcom Corporation, JPL, the FCC, the NTIA, and the FBI.

WTS 2005 will feature invited presentations and keynote addresses by leaders and experts in the wireless industry, presentations of accepted academic and practitioner research papers, and presentations and a panel discussion on future directions in wireless communications research.  Workshops, a doctoral-students session,  and a Disneyland reception and tour are planned.  Refereed proceedings will be published by the IEEE and be available on its Xplore online publication system. The proceedings also will be distributed at the Symposium via a CD.  Applicable student papers are welcome.  Awards will be given for the outstanding undergraduate and graduate papers submitted.

Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Wireless Internet & WML
Mobile and Wireless Network Security and Privacy
Wireless Network Modeling, Algorithms, and Simulation
Mobile Platform Operating Systems and Architectures
QoS and Wireless Network Reliability
Spectrum Management and Policy
Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) Technology
Wireless Telecommunications Management
Spread-spectrum/CDMA/OFDM Technologies
Global Wireless Services and Business
Wireless Multimedia
Satellite Based Systems
802.11 and Bluetooth
Wireless IP and Home Networks
Broadband Wireless Access
Mobile and WLAN Interoperability
3G/4G Wireless Networks & Systems
Signal Processing in Wireless Systems

To submit papers and review guidelines, visit www.csupomona.edu/wtsi. All submissions will be refereed blindly.  Submitted papers should not exceed 5000 words, including a 200 word abstract.  At least one listed author on the final paper must register for and attend WTS 2005 to present the paper.

All manuscripts should follow IEEE Computer Society Press Author Guidelines:  http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm

IMPORTANT DATES:
January 15, 2005 Paper submission deadline
February 15, 2005 Notification of acceptance
March 1, 2005 Camera-ready submissions

PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Dr. Ilir Progri, Cal Poly Pomona ifprogri@csupomona.edu
Dr. J. P. Shim, Mississippi State University jshim@cobilan.msstate.edu