Co Chairs:
Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington (das@cse.uta.edu)
Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM Watson Research Center (bisdik@us.ibm.com)

Technical Program Committee:
Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research)
John Barton (HP labs)
Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University)
Kalyan Basu (Univ. of Texas, Arlington)
Azzedine Boukerche (Univ. of North Texas)
Mainak Chatterjee (University of Central Florida)
Marco Conti (CNUCE Institute)
Nada Golmie (NIST)
Per Johansson (Ericsson)
Geng-Sheng Kuo (National Chengchi University)
Archan Misra (IBM Research)
Tim Ozugur (Alcatel)
George C. Polyzos (Athens University)
Franklin Reynolds (Nokia Research)
Rajeev Shorey (IBM Research)
Terry Todd (McMaster University)
Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University)
Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Geoffrey Voelker (University of California, San Diego)
Gergely Zaruba (University of Texas, Arlington)
Yongbing Zhang (University of Tsukuba)
Taieb Znati (University of Pittsburgh)
Michele Zorzi (Universita' di Ferrara)

In the recent years, two new acronyms have joined the pantheon of Abbreviations in communications: WLANs and WPANs, for wireless local area networks (LANs) and wireless personal area networks (PANs) respectively. These technologies join a plethora of existing and emerging wireless WAN technologies that aim at providing data (e.g. Internet) services to mobile devices and users. The unexpected (in some circles) high degree of acceptance of the IEEE 802.11 technologies tied to its reasonable cost, both in their use and deployment, has shifted the focus of many as the technology of choice in attaining early entry in the potentially lucrative market of broadband wireless services. The deployment of wireless LAN services at public hot-spots (airports, hotels, convention centers, sports arena, and so on) are strong indicators of this trend. Furthermore, the advent of personal networking technologies enables a large Variety of personal devices in participating in the generation and consumption of data services.

Through the symposium on Personal Communication Systems and Wireless LANS, organized with ICC 2003, we aim at uncovering the technology trends and challenges that will further hasten the introduction of personal wireless services using WLANs and WPANs. Focusing on necessary technology enablers in the network and application space, we solicit original papers that addresses the various aspects for supporting existing, new, and future applications relating to mobile users using WPANs and WLANs.

Topics of interest include but not limited to:

• Architectures and protocols for data services via WLANs and WPANs
• Mobility management and seamless integration of WLANs and PANs
• Network, service and application roaming between disparate wireless technologies
• Location-based services for extremely local environments (public hot-spots)
• Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) architectures
• Interoperability, interference and co-existence issues
• TCP performance and IP over Bluetooth
• QoS provisioning in WLANs and WPANs