The IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC 2012) will be organized from April 1 – 4 at the Palais des Congrès – Porte Maillot in Paris, France.
Dedicated to the extensive range of wireless communications and networking technologies, IEEE WCNC 2012 will comprise 620 technical papers delivered throughout four tracks, nine tutorials, seven workshops, four keynotes and eight business panels covering varied topics ranging from the latest advances in digital cellular, PCS, multimedia and wireless networking technologies to channel modeling, radio resource management and emerging mobile applications.
IEEE WCNC 2012 will commence on Sunday, April 1 with nine tutorials and seven workshops offered by leading international researchers and industry experts representing renowned institutions and corporations from all continents. Specific areas to be discussed include “Mobile Cloud Computing,” “Heterogeneous Cellular Networks,” “Machine-to-Machine in Smart Grids and Smart Cities,” “Future Green Communications,” “Wireless Vehicular Communications and Networks,” “Cooperation and Coordination Over Cellular Networks,” “Internet of Things Enabling Technologies” and “Wireless Cloud and White Space Oriented Networks.”
The conference’s executive and technical program focused by the conference’s keynote schedule will initiate on Monday, April 2. The conference will mark the initiation of Gee Rittenhouse, Vice President of Bell Labs Research, and Siavash Alamouti, Group R&D Director of Vodafone. Responsible for overseeing all Bell Labs research centers and the research activities for Alcatel-Lucent, Rittenhouse is actively engaged in green technology research, creating innovations that promote environmental sustainability and improving the energy efficiency of ICT networks by a factor of 1000 from current levels. Formerly an Intel Fellow and the CTO of Mobile Wireless Group at Intel Corporation, Alamouti is best known for the invention of the Alamouti space–time block code, a 2 transmit antenna space-time block code and has been adopted for use in standards worldwide.
This also begins on Monday and running through Wednesday will be the presentation of eight executive panels highlighting the experiences and visionary insights of senior executives from Alcatel-Lucent, Still under development and soon to be announced is IEEE WCNC 2012’s technical program, which will comprise 620 original research papers presented across 90 oral sessions and 25 individual poster sessions. Selected after a thorough review of more than 1,400 original submissions received from 72 countries, these papers will cover the next wave of research and breakthroughs within the wireless communications and networking field.
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