International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas - WSA 2010, February 23-24, 2010

Important Dates

Deadline Abstract (max. 2 pages A4) November 15, 2009 (closed)
Notification of Acceptance December 18, 2009
Deadline Full Paper (max. 8 pages A4) February 1, 2010

Submission Instructions

Extended Abstracts
Full Paper

Camera ready versions of the paper for the International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas (WSA 2010) can be up to 8 pages in two column style. Please use the template files as a guideline for your layout. Submissions should include affiliation, address, telephone number and email address.

Please, upload the final camera-ready paper until February 1, 2010, using the EDAS conference management system. Due to organizational reason there will be no extension possible. If you fail to upload your camera ready final paper until February 1, 2010, your paper cannot be included in the workshop proceedings.

Furthermore, we want to remind you that several obligations have to be fulfilled in order to publish your paper in the conference proceedings.

  1. Prepare your camera ready paper according to the provided templates, with a maximum of 8 pages and full affiliation informations. Furthermore, make sure that your abstract is no longer than 200 words and contains no latex formulas if possible.
    To ensure IEEE compliant file format, please use exclusively the following paper templates:
  2. The documents of the conference proceedings need to comply with IEEE specifications so that the conference papers can be made available via IEEE Xplore. It is the authors' responsibility to check that their manuscripts and final papers comply with the IEEE Xplore requirements. The organizers cannot make any effort to convert final papers to IEEE Xplore format, and papers that fail to comply have to be excluded from conference proceedings. The IEEE Xplore compatibility of the paper has to be checked using IEEE PDF eXpress. To perform the compatibility test, you have to register on the webpage http://www.pdf-express.org/ using the conference ID "WSA2010x". First-time users have to click "New Users - Click here", enter "WSA2010x" for conference ID, email address and a password. Previous users enter WSA2010x for conference ID and email address and password used before. Now, for each paper the following procedure has to be executed for checking the PDF
    1. For each conference paper, click "Create New Title".
    2. Enter identifying text for the paper (title is recommended but not required)
    3. Click "Submit PDF for Checking" or "Submit Source Files for Conversion"
    4. Indicate platform, source file type (if applicable), click Browse and navigate to file, and click "Upload File". You will receive online and email confirmation of the successful upload.
    5. You will receive an email with your Checked PDF or IEEE PDF eXpress-converted PDF attached. If you submitted a PDF for Checking, the email will show if your file passed or failed. If your PDF passed, use the eXpress-checked file for upload in EDAS. Otherwise, correct your file by following the instructions and repeat the checking procedure.
  3. Update the paper information using EDAS. Make sure, that the authors name, the title and the abstract are correct. You have to provide an IEEE copyright form along with the final paper. To this end a link for the IEEE copyright form can be found at your paper's page in EDAS.
  4. Upload the eXpress-checked PDF file in EDAS.
  5. In order to publish the paper in the Workshop proceedings we require at least one registered author for each paper to register until February 1, 2010. The Registration form and a list of hotels can be found clicking the links. Please, specify all your papers by their EDAS ID, as one registration is valid for several papers. For general participants the registration is open until February 8, 2010.

Please note that your paper will be withdrawn from publication, if you failed to fulfill one of the obligations until February 1, 2010. If there are any further questions do not hesitate to contact us.

Thank you for your contribution. We are looking forward to welcome you in Bremen.

Template
Submissions should be A4, 10pt font size with a maximum of 8 pages for the full paper. Please find further details on formatting and spelling inside the template. The use of LaTeX typesetting is strongly encouraged.

WSA 2010 LaTeX template (preferred) ZIP archive
WSA 2010 Word template Word file

To guarantee a successful submission to EDAS, please ensure that all fonts are included in the PDF file. Using standard LaTeX tools this can be achieved, e.g., by
ps2pdf -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dOptimize=false -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress

Presentation Instructions

Oral Sessions

The oral presentations should take 15 minutes each and are followed by 5 minutes discussion. We ask the authors to upload their PowerPoint or PDF presentations in advance of the session. You should contact either the session chairman or WSA staff to upload your presentation to the computer (a USB stick/CD will be helpful). In order to avoid delays during the sessions, we kindly ask not to use personal laptops for the presentation.
MS PowerPoint 2003 & 2007 and Adobe Reader 9 are provided for the presentations. We suggest the presenters to contact the session chair 10 minutes before the session begins.

Poster Sessions

During the Workshop two sessions per day will be reserved exclusively for poster presentations. There is no distinction between oral and poster accepted papers, regarding proceedings. Poster papers will be fully published in the conference proceedings, as long as authors comply with the requirements set in the notification email. Regarding the poster sessions of WSA 2010, please note that the presentation panels for the papers can display posters of A0 maximum size (vertically placed- portrait) and any smaller sizes, e.g. A1, at any placement (portrait and landscape). Poster wall and pins will be at your disposal. Due to the strict timing, a short presentation is not possible during the poster sessions but the posters will be announced at the end of preceding oral session.
Posters are on display for the whole day. We kindly ask the authors to install their posters at the beginning of that day the poster is scheduled in the program. The authors are requested to present and discuss their contributions during the Poster Sessions, on Tuesday 10:45 am - 11:25 am and 3:05 pm - 3:45 pm or on Wednesday 10:30 am - 11:10 am and 2:50 pm - 3:30 pm, respectively.

Workshop Topics

  • Antennas for beamforming and diversity
  • Multi-antenna channel measurements
  • Spatial channel modeling
  • Beamforming and source localization
  • Diversity techniques
  • Space-time processing
  • Space-time coding
  • MIMO systems
  • Multicarrier and multiuser communications
  • Precoding and limited feedback
  • Relaying and multihop
  • Cooperative and sensor networks
  • Crosslayer optimization
  • Radio resource management
  • Cellular systems
  • Link, system and network level simulations
  • Hard- and software implementation issues

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