General Chair:
Narcís Cardona
Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Technical Program Chair:
Luis Correia
IST/IT - Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

General Co-Chairs:
Boon Sain Yeo (1) and Javier Gozalvez (2)
1.Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
2.University Miguel Hernández, Spain

Technical Program co-Chair:
Alberto González
Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Panel/Speaker Chair:
Jorge Pereira
European Commission, Belgium

Tutorial Chair:
Oriol Sallent
Technical University of Catalonia, Spain

Special Sessions and Invited Papers Chair:
Roberto Verdone
University of Bologna, Italia

Publication Chair:
James Irvine
University of Strathclyde, UK

Publicity Chair:
Óscar Lázaro
Innovalia Association, Spain

Local Organizing Chair:
David Argilés
Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Call for Papers
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts (full papers will not be accepted) of about 1500 words (two pages in the standard IEEE conference format) together with a short summary (approx. 150 words). Authors are requested to indicate their paper's technical area when submitting their contribution.
Proposals for Tutorial are also being solicited and should be sent, together with a one page summary and the presenter's biography, to the Tutorial. Detailed submission guidelines and manuscript templates will be published on the conference's website.

Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline:April 10, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 2, 2006
Tutorials proposals deadline: June 9, 2006 Final paper due: July 1, 2006

Conference Secretariat:
Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM)
Technical University of Valencia
8G building, 4th stairs
Camino de Vera s/n, - 46022 Valencia, Spain,
email: iswcs2006@upv.es

To realise its objectives, the organising and technical committees of the symposium are seeking original contributions in the areas of, but not limited to:

· IMT-2000 systems
· Beyond 3G and 4G systems
· Innovative concepts for future mobile and wireless communication systems
· Fixed and nomadic wireless access
· Relaying and user cooperation
· Spectrum sharing and coexistence
· Radio resource management and allocation
· Wireless access techniques
· Cross-layer design and optimisation
· Experimental systems and field trials
· Heterogeneous wireless networking
· Convergence of networks
· End-to-End QoS provision
· Wireless network architectures and deployments
· Ultra-wideband communications
· Wireless LAN and PAN
· Wireless and Mobile IP
· Wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks
· Digital audio and video broadcasting
· Novel wireless switching and routing techniques
· Mobility management
· Traffic control and engineering
· Modelling, analysis and simulation of mobile and wireless systems
· Innovative services and applications
· Service and middleware platforms
· Location based services and positioning
· Security and privacy
· Software radio and re-configurability
· Satellite communications and High Altitude Platforms
· Coding, modulation and equalization
· Wireless propagation and channel modelling
· MIMO techniques and smart adaptive antennas
· Space-time coding and diversity
· Signal processing for wireless systems