Subject: Broadband Access Conference - EXTENDED DEADLINE - MAY 31 !

From: [email-masked] (Andrzej Pach)
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 14:16:05 +0200

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		    EXTENDED DEADLINE - MAY 31  !!

		 Announcement and Call for Papers

		BROADBAND ACCESS CONFERENCE (BAC99)

		Cracow, Poland, October 11-13, 1999

		   http://BAC99.kt.agh.edu.pl/

Sponsored by IEEE Poland Section and Cracow Communications Society Chapter

Rapidly growing demand for Internet resources access and emerging broadband
interactive applications attracts telecom operators' and service providers'
attention to access technologies: copper (xDSL), fibre (FTTx) and wireles (WLL).

The conference addresses a full spectrum of issues related to a residential
access - from signal level, through network architectures and their life cycle
costs up to live field trial description.

The conference will help incumbent operators to determine their own technology
migration path to the broadband forefront that will match their current status
and prospected market niches.

The conference programme is organised in three streamed sessions:

	* Digital Subscriber Line

	* Fibre in the Loop

	* Wireless Solutions

Submitted extended abstracts will undergo three independent reviews
and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. 

Tutorials
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Proposals for tutorials are solicited. Evaluation of proposals will be based on
the expertise of the instructors, and on the subject matter. Potential
instructors are requested to submit a tutorial proposal of at most 5 pages,
including a biographical sketch, to the BAC99 chairs.

IMPORTANT DATES
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	* Submission of extended abstracts (max. 5 pages) due:	May 31, 1999

	* Authors notified:	June 30, 1999

	* Full paper camera ready due: September 10, 1999

SUBMISSION / REGISTRATION
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Submit extended abstracts by e_mail to one of the BAC99 chairs.
For registration and general information contact a chair of the BAC99 
organising Committee, dr Artur Lason.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Prof. Andrzej R. PACH
General Chair of BAC'99

Department of Telecommunications
AGH Cracow University 
Al. Mickiewicza 30
30-059 Krakow, Poland
Email:	[email-masked]
Tel:	+48 12 634 5582
Fax:	+48 12 634 2372

Prof. Zdzislaw PAPIR
Program Chair of BAC'99

Department of Telecommunications
AGH Cracow University 
Al. Mickiewicza 30
30-059 Krakow, Poland
Email:	[email-masked]
Tel:	+48 12 634 5582
Fax:	+48 12 634 2372

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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N.E. ANDERSEN, DSC Communications, Denmark
K. ASATANI, Univ. Kogakuin, Japan
A. AZCORRA, Univ. Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
D. BEM, Wroclaw Univ. Of Technology, Poland
W. Y. CHEN, Motorola, USA
A. CIZMAR, Univ. Kosice, Slovakia
A. DOBROGOWSKI, Poznan Univ. of Technology, Poland
A. DZIECH, AGH Cracow Univ., Poland
A.L. EKBLAD, Telia, Sweden
U. FERRERO, CSELT, Italy
K.-P. HO, Chinese Univ., Hong Kong
A. JAJSZCZYK, ITTI Ltd. And ATR, Poland
T. KESSLER, Deutsche Telecom, Germany
K. KIKUSHIMA, NTT, Japan
S. KUMAR, Ericsson, USA
B. ORTH, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
K. PAHLAVAN, Worcester Pol., USA
T. POLLET, Bell Alcatel, Belgium
M. POUSA, CET, Portugal
S. SAY, Next Level Commun., USA
A. SIMMONDS, Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK
P. SPRUYT, Bell Alcatel, Belgium
R. VALADAS, Univ. Aveiro, Portugal
M. YANO, Fujitsu, Japan

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Chair: Dr. Artur LASON
Department of Telecommunications
AGH Cracow University 
Al. Mickiewicza 30
30-059 Krakow, Poland

Email: [email-masked]
Tel:	+48 12 634 5582
Fax:	+48 12 634 2372