0. Table of Contents

1. Technical Papers
2. Keynote Speeches
3. Tutorials
4. Workshops
5. Special Sessions
6. Panels
7. Co-Located & Co-Timed Events
   

The full technical program can be downloaded here.

2. Keynote Speeches 

K1: Business Priorities for Next-Generation Networks
Vivek Badrinath (Executive VP, Information Technology, Networks & Product Support, France Telecom – Orange, France)
K2: Research Directions For Personal Indoor And Mobile Wireless Communications
David Goodman (Polytech University, USA)
IEEE Fellow Award Medallion for Prof Muriel Médard, MIT

3. Tutorials

The following tutorials take place on Monday 15 September in parallel with the workshops:

T1: Introduction to Network Coding
Muriel Médard (MIT), Ralf Koetter (TU Munich)
T2: MIMO Detection: Theory and Practice
John R. Barry (Georgia Tech)
T3: Cooperation in Wireless Networks
Ivana Marić (Stanford), Ron Dabora (Stanford)
T4: Wireless Mesh Networking
Prasant Mohapatra (UC Davis)
T5: Game Theory for Wireless Communications
Merouane Debbah (Supelec), Samson Lasaulce (LSS/CNRS)
T6: Energy-efficient Protocol Design in Wireless Sensor Networks
Torsten Braun (Universität Bern)
T7: Ultra Wideband Positioning Systems
Zafer Sahinoglu (Mitsubishi), Sinan Gezici (Bilkent Uni)
T8: Mobile Network Cooperation at its Best in B3G: Network Composition
Roch Glitho (Ericsson)
T9: 60 GHz radio-communications for short range applications
Isabelle Siaud (Orange Labs)
T10: Vehicular Wireless Communications: Technical Analysis, Challenges, Trends, and Standardization Activities
Fethi Filali (Eurecom)

4. Workshops

Workshops take place on Monday 15 September in parallel with the tutorials. Workshop papers will appear in the IEEE Xplorer. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers vie EDAS to the following workshops:

W1: International Workshop on Wireless Distributed Network
W2: Cognitive Radios & Networks
W3: VoIP Technology: Research and Standards for reliable applications
W4: Beyond Cellular: Emerging Network MIMO Perspectives
W5: Ubiquitous Services: The Key to True Mobility
W6: Efficiency - Key to Next Generation of Mobile RATs
W7: Mesh Networking: From Technology to Social Impact
W8: Advanced Communication for Risk, Emergency and Disaster (RED)

5. Special Sessions

Special sessions will be scattered throughout the technical program and can hence take place from 16-18 September 2008. Special session papers will appear in the IEEE Xplorer. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers to the following special sessions:

S1: Cooperative Objects and Cooperation in Wireless Sensor Networks
S2: Urban Dynamic Spectrum Access - Challenges and Solutions
S3: Physical Layer Security
S4: WLAN and WPAN Millimeter-wave Multi-Gigabit Wireless Systems
S5: Intelligent Transportation and Traffic Telematics
S6: Visions for the Wireless Future: Trends and Challenges
S7: Future Home Networks
S8: Adressing Climat Change - Rising to the Challenge!

6. Panels

Panels will be scattered throughout the technical program and can hence take place from 16-18 September 2008:

P1: Operators Executives Panel
P2: Collaborative Innovation: Good for Business?
P3: Cellular versus WiMAX (1-to-1 panel!)
P4: Wireless Sensor Networks - Making the Most Out of Sensing
P5: Cognition and Cooperation: The Way Forward
P6: Building the Internet of the Future – The Wireless Challenge
P7: What case for Mobile TV?
P8: Advanced Communications and Sensing in support of Crisis, Emergency and Disaster Management

7. Co-Located & Co-Timed Events

IEEE PIMRC 2008 will be preceded by AdHoc-NOW 2008, which is the 7th International Conference on AD-HOC Networks & Wireless, to take place in Nice from September 10-12, 2008. The two conferences AdHoc-NOW 2008 and IEEE PIMRC 2008 give you an opportunity to have a fruitful and exciting stay at the French Riviera.

IEEE PIMRC 2008 will be preceded by WPMC 2008, which is the 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, to take place in Lapland, Finland, from September 8-11, 2008. The two conferences IEEE PIMRC 2008 and WPMC 2008 give you an opportunity to have a fruitful and exciting stay in Europe.