Call for Abstracts - SNOW 2011
The Second Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless (SNOW), 24-26 March 2011, Sälen, Sweden
Dec 2, 2010

Important Dates:
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  Abstract Submission:          Jan.  5, 2011
  Acceptance Notification:    Jan. 12, 2011
  Registration Deadline:        Jan. 25, 2011
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Workshop Dates:                 Mar. 24-26, 2011

The Second Nordic Workshop on System and Network Optimization for Wireless (SNOW) aims at bringing together Researchers and Students from the Academia working in wireless networking, primarily in the Nordic region.

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webpage: http://snow.itn.liu.se

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This year, the Nordic SNOW Workshop aims to have a special focus on broadband cellular access (HSPA, LTE/LTE-A, etc) and emerging wireless networking paradigms such as collaborative and heterogeneous networking. We further welcome presentations within a broad range of wireless networking cross-layer optimization, from fundamental communication performance analysis to considerations for multimedia QoS.

Our goal is to have a single track meeting with lively scientific discussions and exchange of views, and to accommodate a wide variety of backgrounds and research attitudes. The program will be organized in such a way to promote networking activities between the participants, including daily social outdoors activities like skiing.

We therefore invite for review submissions of up to 1-page abstracts of technical presentations targeting, but not limited to the following topics:

  • Asymptotic system properties (capacity, connectivity, coverage, delay)
  • Cellular systems, 3G/4G, LTE-advanced, WMAN, WRAN, and other emerging broadband wireless networks
  • Inter-networking and integration of wireless heterogeneous and multi-tier networks
  • Performance engineering in HSPA, WLAN, MESH, LTE, and other cellular or multitier technologies
  • Wireless network planning, capacity analysis, and topology control
  • Cognitive Radios and cooperative/opportunistic communications
  • Self-organizing wireless networks
  • Game theoretic models, pricing and incentives
  • Resource management, mobility management, and admission control
  • Energy efficiency and green communications
  • Delay tolerant wireless networks
  • Scalability and manageability of network architectures
  • Automated planning and resource allocation in 3G HSPA (and beyond) networks

Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the Nordic SNOW workshop web page: http://snow.itn.liu.se

The workshop keynote presentations will be soon announced on the workshop web page.

Organizing committee:
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  • General co-chairs :
      Di Yuan, Linköping University, Sweden 
      Matti Latva-aho, CWC-University of Oulu, Finland  
  • Advisory board :
      Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland, USA  
      Ryuji Kohno, Yokohama National University, Japan  
      Behnaam Aazhang, Rice University, USA   
  • Technical program committee :
      co-chair: Lars K. Rasmussen, KTH, Sweden    
      co-chair: Marian Codrenu, CWC-University of Oulu, Finland 
         Raffaele Bruno, IIT - CNR, Italy
         Azadeh Faridi, Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
         Carlo Fischione, KTH, Sweden
         Bernard Fleury, Aalborg University, Denmark
         Viktoria Fodor, KTH, Sweden
         Scott Fowler, Linköping University, Sweden
         Markku Juntti, CWC-University of Oulu, Finland
         Kimmo Kansanen, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
         Eleutherios Karipides, Linköping University, Sweden
         Visa Koivunen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
         Lavy Libman, University of Sydney, Australia
         Tobias Oechtering, KTH, Sweden
         Anna Pantelidou, CWC, University of Oulu, Finland
         Michal Pioro, Lund University, Sweden
         Carlos Pomalaza-Ráez, Purdue University, USA
         Joyce Wu, Ranplan, UK
         Iana Siomina, Ericsson research, Sweden
         Tommy Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
         Ragnar Thobaben, KTH, Sweden
         Apostolos Traganitis, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece
         Elisabeth Uhlemann, Halmstad University, Sweden
         Jie Zhang, Sheffield University, UK
         Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy
  • Local arrangements :
      Vangelis Angelakis, Linköping University, Sweden   

Registration and Costs :
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Registration of accepted presenters and workshop attendants will be done online through the workshop webpage. No registration fee will be charged. Participants will have to support their own lodging and transportation costs.

Venue and transportation :
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The 2nd Nordic SNOW workshop will take place at the Swedish ski resort of Stöten in Sälen.  Stöten has direct access to 27 individual slopes, served by 15 ski lifts and provides snow guarantee up to the last week of April: http://www.stoten.se/

A limited number of single and double rooms have been block booked (in a package of 4 nights from 23 to 27 of March) at the Stöten Hotel and at 2- bedroom apartments in Stöten Mitt.
We strongly urge the participants to prefer the apartments in line with the networking spirit of the workshop.
-- For details visit: http://snow.itn.liu.se

Travel information
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Stöten is mainly reachable through the town of Mora in Sälen.
From Mora, there is a 1.5 hrs drive by bus, or car rental. We shall arrange to have 2 busses at two fixed times (to be announced) from Mora on Wednesday March 23rd.

  • Flying to Mora:
    Operated by Nextjet: http://www.nextjet.se/
    On Wednesday 23 March there are two direct flights from Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport (ARN) to Mora (MXX).
  • By Train to Mora:
    Operated by SJ: http://www.sj.se
    There are train departures to Mora from the Stockholm central train station every 45’, with a trip duration ranging approximately 3:30 – 4 hrs.

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