6th International Conference on Personal Satellite Services - PSATS 2014

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Call for Papers
6th International Conference on Personal Satellite Services -
PSATS 2014
July 28-29, 2014
Genoa, Italy
http://www.psats.eu/2014/show/home
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HIGHLIGHTS

- All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available 
through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest 
scientific libraries
- Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI 
Compendex, Scopus and many more
- Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed 
Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications
- The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a 
leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of 
innovation in the field of ICT

[Scope]

Technology advances in communications together with changes in the 
regulatory framework are paving the way for next generation satellite 
systems. Broadband on the move, improved spectrum efficiency, flexible 
payloads are the keywords. These evolutions foster advances both for the 
end-users and the satellite operators, yielding opportunities for new 
value added services including those that blur the frontiers between 
Earth observation, telecommunications and positioning. The legacy role 
of satellite communication as bearer of broadband and broadcast services 
is also confirmed as the need for global multimedia distribution rises.
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 large numbers of geographically dispersed people. The gap 
between terrestrial and the so-called space communication technologies 
is getting narrower. The space segment is now the natural bridge among 
heterogeneous networks provided flexible capacity wherever and whenever 
needed.
The Personal SATellite Service (PSATS) conference, confirms through its 
6th edition that there is a need for a scientific forum where these 
evolutions are prepared. The conference provides a multifaceted floor 
for technology and networking where all R&D actors including academic 
and industrial researchers, practitioners and students can meet and discuss.

[Topics]

The conference will consist of diverse technical tracks:

General Track
* Satellite antenna designs, modulation and coding
* Synchronization, equalization and channel estimation
* Channel modelling for satellite communications
* MIMO communications for satellites
* Interference detection and mitigation techniques
* DVB and broadband access technologies
* Networking topologies for broadband over satellite links
* Random Access techniques
* IP over satellite and QoS support
* Reliable multicast protocols, transport protocol over satellite
* Network Coding
* 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
* QoS and RRM in the integrated satellite-WSN architecture
* Security related issues of satellite communications

Value Added Services and Future Systems
* Voice, broadband Internet, positioning
* IPTV, DVB,…
* 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
* M2M/SCADA communications over satellite

Convergence of Satellite System and Emerging Technologies
* Convergence with Terrestrial, Wireless Access, and Sensor Networks
* Cooperative/distributed network architectures
* Quantum satellite communications
* Convergence with optical networks

[Publications]

Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNICST series and will 
appear in the SpringerLink, one of the largest digital libraries online 
that covers a variety of scientific disciplines, as well as in the 
ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). LNICST volumes are submitted for 
inclusion to leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, 
ACM Digital Library, ISI Proceedings, EI Engineering Index, CrossRef, 
Scopus.
Authors of the best papers will be recommended to submit an extended 
version to - Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI 
Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. (Or 
other journals as being planned)

[Paper submission]

All the papers formatted according with the instructions have to be 
submitted through Confy, EAI conference online submission system at: 
http://confy.eai.eu
For further information on Initial Submission, go to www.psats.eu

[Important dates]
Paper Submission Deadline: 20 April 2014
Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2014
Camera Ready deadline: 30 June 2014
Conference Date: 28-29 July 2014

[Conference organising committees]

General Chairs
     Dr. Igor Bisio (University of Genoa, Italy)
     Prof. Nei Kato (Tohoku University, Japan)

TPC Chairs
     Dr. Tomaso de Cola (German Aerospace Center, Germany)
     Prof. Song Guo (The University of Aizu Tsuruga, Japan)

Industrial Chair
     Dr. Francesco Rispoli (Ansaldo STS, Italy)
     Dr. Chonggang Wang (InterDigital, USA)

Publicity Chairs
     Prof. Ruhai Wang (Lamar University, USA)
     Dr. Mauro De Sanctis (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

Demos and Tutorial Chairs
     Dr. Scott Burleigh (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
     Prof. Carlo Caini (University of Bologna, Italy)

Publications Chair
     Dr. Giuseppe Araniti (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, 
Italy)

Local Organising Chair
     Dr. Marco Cello (University of Genoa, Italy)

Conference Coordinators
     Ms. Erica Polini (EAI, Italy)

Website Chairs
     Dr. Stefano Delucchi (University of Genoa, Italy)
     Dr. Andrea Sciarrone (University of Genoa, Italy)

Steering Committee
     Prof. Imrich Chlamtac (Create-Net, Italy)
     Dr. Kandeepan Sithamparanathan (RMIT, Australia)
     Mr. Agnelli Stefano (ESOA/Eutelsat, France)
     Prof. Mario Marchese (University of Genoa, Italy)

Advisory Committee
     Dr Giovanni Giambene (University of Siena, Italy)
     Prof Fun Hu (University of Bradford, UK)
     Dr Vinod Kumar (Alcatel-Lucent, France)

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Received on Friday, 31 January 2014 14:32:10 UTC