IEEE Ottawa Section has won the bid to host this conference.  The details

of the conference are as follows:

Date: June 10-15, 2012
Location: Ottawa, Canada

Since 1965 the IEEE International Conference on Communications has been
one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. IEEE
ICC brings together the world’s leaders, scientists, policy makers from
industry and academia. The IEEE Ottawa Section is proud to host IEEE ICC
2012 Conference and Exhibition from 10-15 June 2012 where recent advances
in the field of communications will be presented.

The theme of the conference is “CONNECT o COMMUNICATE o COLLABORATE”. For
participants it promises to stimulate the scientific exchange of ideas,
the identification of future trends in communications, and the
illumination of business opportunities. The conference program will
feature 12 technical symposia, 16 industrial forums, keynote
presentations, several workshops, and tutorials.

For general conference information please visit:http://www.ieee-icc.org/2012

Important Dates and Deadlines

Wrokshop Proposal: 31 July, 2011
Contact Email:          Markus Brunner (brunner@nw.neclab.eu ) or
Lisandro Granville (Granville@inf.ufrgs.br)
Proposal Acceptance Notification: 15 August, 2011

Industry Forum Proposal: 30 September 2011
Contact email:          Adam Drobot (Adam.Drobot@2M.com) or
Chi-Ming Chen (chimingchen@att.com)
Acceptance notification: 19 December, 2011
Final presentation materials due: 1 May, 2012
Industry Forum dates: 12-14 June, 2012

Tutorial Proposal: 6 September 2011
Contact email:          Azzedine Boukerche (boukerch@site.uottawa.ca) or
Abbas Jamalipour (a.jamalipour@ieee.org)
Acceptance Notification: 9 January 2012
Camera-Ready Paper: 10 February 2012

Conference Paper Submission: 6 September 2011
Acceptance Notification: 9 January 2012
Camera-Ready Paper: 10 February 2012
Papers should be submitted to the particular sympossia listed below.

(1) Selected Areas in Communications Symposium
Co-Chairs: Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, Jian Song, Han Vinck, Lutz Lampe, Gabe Jakobson,
Igor Bisio, Jaafar Elmirghani
Contact email: ghamri@ensiie.fr
Paper Submission via EDAS:
SAC – Access Networks
SAC – E-Health
SAC – Powerline Communications
SAC – Satellite and Space Communications
SAC – Smart Grid
SAC – Tactical Communications and Operations

(2) Wireless Communications Symposium
Co-Chairs: Ying Chang Liang, Paul Fortier, Simon Pun,Jingxian Wu, Sonia Aissa, Jerry Gibson
Contact email: ycliang@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Wireless Communications Symposium

(3) Wireless Networking Symposium
Co-Chairs: Nidal Nasser, Vojislav Misic, Youssef Iraqi, Nei Kato
Contact email: nasser@cis.uoguelph.ca
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Wireless Networking Symposium

(4) Communication Theory Symposium
Co-Chairs: Jeff Andrews, Martin Haenggi, Wei Yu, Min Chen
Cntact email: jandrews@ece.utexas.edu
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Communication Theory Symposium

(5) Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
Co-Chairs: Arumugam Nallanathan, Said Boussakta, Reza Soleymani, Yu Cheng
Cntact email: arumugam.nallanathan@kcl.ac.uk
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Signal Processing for Communications Symposium

(6) Optical Networks and Systems Symposium
Co-Chairs: Lena Wosinska, Vinod Vokkarane, Pin Han Ho, Martin Maier
Cntact email: Wosinska@kth.se
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Optical Networks and Systems Symposium

(7) Next-Generation Networking Symposium
Co-Chairs: Mohammad Atiquzzaman, Cedric Westphal, Kurt Tutschku, Sidi-Mohammed Senouci
Cntact email: atiq@ou.edu
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Next-Generation Networking Symposium

(8) Communication QoS, Reliability & Modeling Symposium
Co-Chairs: Charalabos (Harry) Skianis, Mike Devetsikiotis, Nirwan Ansari, Hideaki Yoshino
Cntact email: cskianis@aegean.gr
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Communication QoS, Reliability & Modeling Symposium

(9) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium
Co-Chairs: Cheng Li, Rami Langar, Jalel Ben Othman, Lei Shu, Sonia Waharte
Cntact email: licheng@mun.ca
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium

(10) Communication Software Services, and Multimedia Applications Symposium
Co-Chairs: Joel Rodrigues, Noura Limam, Toufik Ahmed, Abdelhamid Melouk, Bin Wei
Cntact email: joeljr@ieee.org
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Communication Software Services, and Multimedia Applications Symposium

(11) Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium
Co-Chairs: Abderrahim Benslimane, Olivier Festor, Rose Qingyang Hu, Wen Tao Zhu,
Cntact email: abderrahim.benslimane@univ-avignon.fr
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium

(12) Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium
Co-Chairs: Ekram Hossain, Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Rajeev Shorey, Charles Clancy
Contact email: ekram@ee.umanitoba.ca
Paper Submission via EDAS:
Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium