Extended Abstracts and Full papers are accepted for PSATS'10 - Extended Deadline

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Extended Abstracts and Full Papers are accepted for PSATS’2010, Rome Italy.

For submissions: http://www.psats.eu

(Paper Submission: 08 Nov 2009)


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                              CALL FOR PAPERS

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PSATS'10
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International Conference on Personal Satellite Services - PSATS'10

4-6 Feb, 2010, Rome Italy

website: www.psats.eu



Co-located with:

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SAT Expo EUROPE, Rome, Italy

4-6 Feb, 2010, Rome Italy

website: www.satexpo.it/en




Paper Submission:

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Full Papers can be submitted at, http://www.psats.eu



Important Dates:

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Paper Submission: 08 Nov 2009

Acceptance Notification: 30 Nov 2009

Camera Ready Due: 15 Dec 2009



SPRONSORED BY: ICST, Sat-Expo Europe, Eutelsat, Create-Net, University 
of Genoa


Endorsed By: The Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI): www.isi-initiative.org



*** From Satellite Business Applications to Science, and again to 
Business Applications, and Marketing ***



*** Come meet the European Satellite Operators at PSATS/SAT Expo Europe 
and share your exceptional business, research and scientific ideas with 
them ***



CALL FOR PAPERS

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The next generation satellite services will cater the demands of 
personal services by bringing the satellite terminals directly to the 
hands of the user hence providing satellite personal services directly 
to the user. Technological advances in satellite communications have 
made it possible to bring such value added satellite services directly 
to the user by reducing the overall cost as well as addressing many 
technological challenges such as achieving mobility, having miniaturized 
antennas and terminal sizes, and providing high data rate links. With 
the unique broadcast nature and ubiquitous coverage of satellite 
networks, the synergy between satellite and terrestrial networks 
provides immense opportunities for disseminating wideband multimedia 
services to a wide range of audiences over large numbers of 
geographically dispersed people. It is evident that the satellite will 
play a complementary, but essential, role in delivering multimedia and 
telecommunication services to infrastructure-less region where the 
terrestrial high-bandwidth communication infrastructures are practically 
unreachable.  In such a context we introduce a new category claimed to 
be defined as Personal Satellite Services (PSATS) by means of extending 
the satellite services directly to the user for personal services such 
as communications, multimedia and location identification. Such 
opportunities are also currently fueling accelerated research in PSATS 
enabled systems which we cover in this conference. The services enabled 
by PSATS not only cover the requirements of an ordinary citizen but also 
provide defense personal services such as tracking, visualization and 
virtualization in a highly secure communication environment.


The conference will explore such techniques, and aims to serve as a 
premier international forum for discussions, bringing together academic 
and industrial researchers, practitioners, and students interested in 
future techniques relating to the satellite communications, networking, 
technology, systems, and applications.



The conference will consist of diverse technical tracks:


General Track:

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- Satellite antenna designs, modulation and coding

- Synchronization, equalization and channel estimation

- Channel modeling for satellite communications

- MIMO communications for satellites

- Interference detection and mitigation techniques

- DVB and broadband access technologies

- Networking topologies for broadband over satellite links

- IP over satellite and QoS support

- Reliable multicast protocols, transport protocol over satellite

- Onboard switching and processing Delay tolerant networking

- Radio resource management and packet scheduling

- Power control, hand-over issues and call admission control

- Emerging standardizations and issues

- Satellite navigation systems, services and tracking

- Real-time multimedia streaming, broadcast/multicasting

- Security related issues of satellite communications





Value added services and future systems:

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- Voice, broadband Internet, DVB, positioning

- Infrastructure and network management

- IP over satellite and heterogeneous networks

- Quality of Service (QoS) issues

- Ka-band and emerging frequency bands

- Earth observation

- Emergency service assistance





Convergence of Satellite System and Emerging Technologies:

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- Convergence with Terrestrial, Wireless Access, and Sensor Networks

- Cooperative/distributed network architectures

- Quantum satellite communications

- Ground terminals with Cognitive Radio functionalities

- Convergence with optical networks





Publications:

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Peer reviewed papers appear in LNICST, under the joint publication series

of ICST and Springer http://www.springer.com





Organization Committee:

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General Chairs:

Prof. Marina Ruggieri (University of Rome, “Tor Vergata”, Italy)

Prof. Mario Marchese (University of Genoa, Italy)

Dr. Kandeepan Sithamparanathan (Create-Net, Italy)



Steering Committee Chair:

Prof. Imrich Chlamtac (President, Create-Net, Italy)



General Vice-Chairs:

Dr. Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli (University of Bologna, Italy)

Dr. Haitham Cruickshank (University of Surrey, UK)



TPC Chairs:

Dr. Claudio Sacchi (University of Trento, Italy)

Dr. Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, Italy)

Dr. Mauro De Sanctis (University of Rome, “Tor Vergata”, Italy)



Industrial Chair:

Mr. Agnelli Stefano (ESOA/Eutelsat, France)



Advisory Committee:

Prof. Giovanni E. Corazza (University of Bologna, Italy)

Prof. Abbas Jamalipur (University of Sydney, Australia)

Prof. Sam Reisenfeld (Macquarie University, Australia)

Dr. Sandro Scalise (German Aerospace Centre, Germany)

Prof. Takaya Yamazato (Nagoya University, Japan)

Dr. Tarik Taleb (NEC Europe Ltd)

Mr. Paolo Dalla Chiara (Sat Expo, Italy)



Publications Chair:

Dr. Igor Bisio (University of Genoa, Italy)



Local Chair:

Dr. Tommaso Rossi (University of Rome, “Tor Vergata”, Italy)



Conference Coordinators:

Barbara Torok (ICST, Belgium)

Ilaria Pivato (Sat Expo, Italy)



Website Chair:

Dr. Lorenzo Mucchi (University of Florence, Italy)





Technical Committee:

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Alban Duverdier (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales - CNES, France)

Fatih Alagoz (Bogazici University, Turkey)

Franco Davoli (University of Genoa, Italy)

Thierry Gayraud (Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems: 
LAAS-CNRS, France)

Gianluca Reali (University of Perugia, Italy)

Maurizio Mongelli (University of Genoa, Italy)

Francesco Potortì (Institute of Information Science and Technologies: 
ISTI -CNR, Italy)

Sandro Scalise (German Aerospace Centre: DLR, Germany)

Tomaso De cola (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le 
Telecomunicazioni: CNIT, Italy)

Ruhai Wang (Lamar University, Texas, USA)

Carlo Caini (University of Bologna, Italy)

Fatih Alagoz (Bogazici University, Turkey)

Niki Pissinou (Florida International University, USA)

Masoumeh Karimi (Florida International University, USA)

Shamila Makki (COMMTECH, LLC, USA)

Kami Makki (Lamar University, Texas, USA)

Ljiljana Trajkovic (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Petia Todorova (The Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems: 
FOKUS, Germany)

Rafael Asorey-Cacheda (Universidad de Vigo, Spain)

Antonella Molinaro (University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Italy)

Hongfei Du (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA)

Matteo Berioli (German Aerospace Center: DLR, Germany)





We look forward to seeing you in Rome at PSATS'10.

Received on Friday, 23 October 2009 12:08:16 UTC