The broadband access technologies in Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) have been subject to extensive interest from both industry and academia due to its huge commercial market values and rich research initiatives. Broadband technologies encompass all evolving high-speed digital technologies that provide users an integrated access to voice, high-speed data, video-on-demand, and interactive delivery services by way of an integration of state-of-the-art wired and wireless technologies. A fully evolved broadband network is aimed to not only virtually eliminate geographic distance as an obstacle to acquiring information, but also dramatically reduce the time it takes to access information, where seamless roaming among different service providers and underlying supporting technologies could be realized. 2006 International Symposium on Broadband Access Technologies in MANs (ISBAT2006) is organized and positioned not only to disseminate most recent research results, but also as a great opportunity of networking and face-to-face discussions among researchers and professionals from both industry and academia in the related areas. Original papers are solicited in all areas of broadband access technologies, in both wired and wireless communication systems and networking. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Next-Generation Broadband Wireless Access
- Wireless mesh networks
- Scheduling, Radio resource management, queue management, admission control and wireless quality of service (QoS)
- Mobile ad hoc networks, relay networks, and sensor networks
- Cross-layer design of wireless systems
- Multi-access network architectures: service and terminal mobility, handover techniques, authentication and security issues
- Vehicle networks
- Testing applications and services
- Smart antennas, MIMO systems and Multiple antenna systems
- OFDM、OFDMA and CDMA systems
- Roaming, billing authentication and authorization
- Integration of Wimax and Wifi
- Innovative Application Scenario in Wireless Broadband
- Marketing & Trend Analysis in future wireless technology
Next-Generation Metropolitan Area Networks
- Architecture design of the Next-Generation Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)
- The role taken by Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)
- Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
- Integration of Wired and Wireless metropolitan area network backbone
- SONET/SDH/WDM/
- FDDI
- Security, intrusion detection & prevention
- Service availability analysis
- Protection and restoration
- Gigabit Ethernet and EPON
- Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning
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