Twelfth Annual Wireless Telecommuncations Symposium (WTS 2013)

We invite the submission of applied research papers to the E-health and Telecommunications in Healthcare (ETH) Mini-Symposium at the 12th Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2013, which will be held April 17-19, 2013 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. For further information, visit http://www.csupomona.edu/wtsi.

Wireless Telecommunications Symposium brings together industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities around the world to exchange information on advances in mobile communications and wireless networking technology, applications, management, and security.

Past WTS participants have included:

  • Dr. Irwin Jacobs, Chairman and Co-Founder of QUALCOMM
  • Mike Lazaridis, Founder and Vice Chairman, Research In Motion
  • Dr. Vinton Cerf, Dr. Robert Kahn, Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, Internet pioneers

The theme for WTS 2013 will be “Global Wireless Communications: Future Directions.” Planned highlights of WTS 2013 include:

  • Executive presentations and keynote addresses
  • Presentations of accepted academic and practitioner research papers
  • Panel discussions
  • Tutorials and workshops
  • A poster paper session
  • A doctoral students’ session.

Refereed proceedings will be published by the IEEE and be available on its Xplore online publication system. The proceedings also will be distributed at the Symposium via a CD. Awards will be given for the most outstanding paper presented and best graduate and undergraduate student papers presented. Some selected high quality papers from WTS 2013 will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications & Networking, IGI Global publisher, pending their successful extension and an expedited review process.

Topic areas of interest in the E-health and Telecommunications in Healthcare Mini-Symposium include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Networking Technologies for Healthcare
  • Wireless in Healthcare
  • Management of Healthcare Technologies
  • Mobile Devices in Healthcare

Important Dates

  • January 21, 2013: Paper submission deadline
  • February 18, 2013: Notification of acceptance
  • March 17, 2013: Camera-ready submissions

Submit your papers as part of the regular conference. The author guidelines are available at: http://www.csupomona.edu/~wtsi/wts/authors.htm.

WTS 2013 ETH Program Committee Chair

WTS Committee Chairs

  • General Chair: Dr. Steven Powell, Cal Poly Pomona
  • Program Chair: Dr. JP Shim, Georgia St. Univ.