Call for Papers

IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2006)

27 November - 1 December 2006, San Francisco, CA USA

Symposium on Satellite and Space Communications

Sponsored by Technical Committee on Satellite and Space Communications (SSC)

Symposium Co-Chairs

Mario Marchese, University of Genoa, Italy, Email: mario.marchese@cnit.it

Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia, Email: a.jamalipour@ieee.org

Michael Hadjitheodosiou, University of Maryland, USA, Email: michalis@isr.umd.edu

Scope

Applications over satellites are a key point for the development of future communications technology. The competitive advantage is both the interactivity and the possibility of building networks and services adapted to different needs and geographic environments, where the satellite technology is often the only or the better choice.

In practice, the key points are the evaluation of the social advantage introduced by satellite communications; the convergence of the technological choices of the enterprises through the standardization issue; and, in particular, the evaluation of new technologies that can provide improved quality at reasonable costs and the analysis of the applications that can be either used only via satellite or whose added value is particularly meaningful if transported via satellite.

At the same time, a new era in space exploration is underway, with an increasing number of scientific Earth observation and space science missions and the new initiatives for the robotic and eventually human exploration of Moon, Mars and other planets. As this is happening the Internet has matured as the preeminent communications network connecting everybody together and we are entering a new development phase involving broadband wireless extensions of this network in a variety of environments. Clearly, the ability to utilize all the recent advances in communication technologies could allow investigators on Earth to enjoy a virtual presence in space, but this generates a need to provide high quality communication support that will enable cost effective global access to experimental data from future space missions, and an efficient way to disseminate this data to a large and diverse pool of users.

Topics of Interest

The Satellite and Space Communications Symposium will include topics related to all aspects of satellite and space communications at all layers of the network protocol suite. Submissions are solicited in the following areas that are structured into three general areas, but not limited to:

Air Interface

• Improved physical layers
• Advanced antennas
• Modulation and coding
• Satellite channel management
• Fading countermeasures
• Capacity planning
• Reconfigurability
• Software radio
• Power and bandwidth allocation solutions
• Air interface design
• Emerging standards: DVB-S2, DVB-RCS, IP over Satellite

Internetworking, Architecture, Protocols and Applications

• MPLS over satellite
• Enhanced network and transport protocols
• QoS-oriented solutions for DVB-S2, DVB-RCS, IP over satellite
• QoS mapping
• Satellite dependent (SD) and satellite independent (SI) adaptation layers and interfaces
• Internetworking over heterogeneous networks
• Space-distributed networking and interconnection of heterogeneous networks
• Cross-layer interface design
• PEP architectures and solutions
• Reliable transport architectures
• Transport and application layer coding
• Security in satellite and hybrid networks
• On-board switching and processing
• Multicast over satellite
• End-to-end QoS architectures
• QoS signaling
• Peer-to-peer application over satellite
• GRID computing over satellite
• Communications for space missions
• New protocols for delay tolerant networks
• Techniques combining navigation and communication
• Space information fusion, data mining and knowledge discovery
• Standards and regulatory issues
• Terminal devices
• Emerging satellite architectures and applications:
• Satellites for aeronautical communications
• Satellites for tactical communications
• Broadband satellite relays
• Networking issues for HAP environments

Control and Algorithms

• Satellite network control and management
• Traffic management and tariffing
• Pricing algorithms
• Business opportunities and models
• Traffic measurements
• Traffic and protocol models
• Control architectures and algorithms for QoS internetworking
• Traffic engineering
• Flow and congestion control
• Call admission control
• QoS routing
• Control schemes for resource allocation and planning
• Network management
• Fault diagnosis

The Satellite and Space Communications Symposium is part of IEEE GLOBECOM2006 and therefore all papers for this symposium must be submitted through the official GLOBECOM2006 web-based paper processing system. For details of deadline and format of paper submission, please check the GLOBECOM2006 web page at http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/. GLOBECOM2006 will include both oral and poster presentations and the accepted papers will be allocated to appropriate session irrespective of their overall review scores, based on appropriateness method of presentation for each paper. All accepted papers must be accompanied by a limited or full registration in order to be appeared in the conference proceedings. For more information please check with the GLOBECOM2006 web site.

Technical Program Committee (in alphabetical order)

Abdullah Abonamah	Zayed University, Dubai, UAE
Fatih Alagoz	Bogazici University, Turkey
Guido Albertengo	Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
Gianluca Aloi	University of Calabria, Italy
Manuel Alvarez-Campana	Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Rafael Asorey Cacheda	University of Vigo, Spain
Mohammed Atiquzzaman	University of Oklahoma, USA
Ra'ed Awdeh	University of Sharjah, UAE
Paolo Banelli	University of Perugia, Italy
Igor Bisio	University of Genoa, Italy
Nicola Blefari Melazzi	University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Michel Bousquet	SUPAERO, France
Jose Brazio	Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Carlo Caini	University of Bologna, Italy
Periklis Chatzimisios	Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Francesco Chiti	University of Florence, Italy
Kuo-Chung Chu	Jin-Wen Institute of Technology, ROC
Horst Clausen	New Mexico Institute of Technology, USA
Giovanni E. Corazza	University of Bologna, Italy
Haitham S. Cruickshank	University of Surrey , UK
Franco Davoli	University of Genoa, Italy
Tomaso de Cola	University of Genoa, Italy
Riccardo De Gaudenzi	European Space Agency, The Netherlands
Arjan Durresi	Louisiana State University, USA
Alban Duverdier	CNES, France
Salah Eddine El Ayoubi	France Telecom R & D, France
Marc Emmelmann	Technical University Berlin, Germany
Rosario Firrincieli	University of Bologna, Italy
Laurent Franck	ENST Toulouse, France
Thierry Gayraud	Toulouse University of Science, France
Giovanni Giambene	University of Siena, Italy
Francisco Javier González Castaño	University de Vigo, Spain
Zhiguo Hong	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Y. Fun Hu	University of Bradford, UK
Bo Huang	Wasada University, Japan
Antonio Iera	University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Xiao Junfeng	Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Merkourios Karaliopoulos	Teletel, Greece
Nei Kato	Tohoku University, Japan
Polychronis Koutsakis	Technical University of Crete, Greece
Richard Langley	University of New Brunswick , Canada
Ling Luo	Zhejiang University, China
Saverio Mascolo	Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Aldo Luis Mendez-Perez	Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Mexico
Eytan Modiano	MIT, USA
Maurizio Mongelli	University of Genoa, Italy
Jose Ignacio Moreno	University “Carlos III”, Spain
Subhas Chandra Nandy	Indian Statistical Institute, India
Hung Nguyen	The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Tomoaki Ohtsuki	Keio University, Japan
Stephan Olariu	Old Dominion University, USA
Pasquale Pace	University of Calabria, Italy
Antonio Pantò	University of Catania, Italy
Serena Pastore	Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Italy
Tommaso Pecorella	University of Florence Research Unit, Italy
Francesco Potorti’	ISTI-CNR, Italy
Salvatore Pulitanò	University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Gianluca Reali	University of Perugia, Italy
Muhammed Salamah	Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey
Sandro Scalise	DLR, Germany
Gonzalo Seco Granados	Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Patrick Sénac	ENSICA, France
Harald Skinnemoen	Nera, Norway
Zhili Sun	University of Surrey , UK
Saeid Taheri	University of New Mexico, USA
Tarik Taleb	Tohoku University, Japan
Daniele Tarchi	University of Florence, Italy
Petia Todorova	Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Germany
Ljiljana Trajkovic	Simon Fraser University, Canada
Yuh-Min Tseng	National Changhua University of Education, ROC
Paramesh C. Upadhyay	Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, India
Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli	University of Bologna, Italy
Maria Angeles Vazquez Castro	Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Anca Vermesan	NERA, Norway
Junfeng Wang	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ruhai Wang	Lamar University, USA
Markus Werner	TriaGnoSys GmbH, Germany
Mike Willis	Rutherford Labs, UK
Kainam Thomas Wong	University of Waterloo, Canada
Lloyd Wood	CISCO, UK
Hou Xia	Beijing Institute of Machinery, China
Xiangbin Yu	Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Yongguang Zhang	HRL Labs, USA
Xing Zhang	Beijing University of Posts and Telecom, China

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