Guy Bouchard, Canadian Broadcasting Corp, Chair

CALL FOR PAPERS

27-29 September 2006
Hotel Washington
Washington, DC
USA
Potential topic areas for papers may include:

• Digital radio and television systems: terrestrial, cable, satellite, Internet, wireless
• Streaming, IPTV, VoIP, VoD, Mobile TV, Wireless Multimedia
• Transmission, propagation, reception, re-distribution of broadcast signals
• AM, FM, and TV transmitter and antenna systems
• Tests and measurements
• Cable and satellite technologies:
• Interconnections with over-the-air broadcasters " Transport stream issues " Re-purposing of navigational information
• Advanced technologies and systems for emerging broadcasting applications
• Reception:
• Software-based receivers
  • DTV and IBOC reception issues
  • Smart antennas for indoor use
  • Noise-figure management in a home environment
  • Compression and modulation for mobile and hand-held sets
  • Diversity reception under dynamic multipath
  • Frequency- and time-domain equalization
  • Wireless home distribution
• Transmission:
  Dynamic sharing of bandwidth
  • Spectrum re-packing optimization
  • New extensions for the ATSC VSB standard
• Wireless Broadband Networks; e.g., IEEE 802.22 Wireless Regional Area
  Networks ("WRANs")
• Information Technology for broadcasters
  

Submit your Abstract of 250 words or less to: bts@ieee.org
by 1 June 2006.
Be sure to include the corresponding author's full name and contact information.
Please indicate it is a 2006 symposium abstract in the email subject line.

For questions, please send email to bts@ieee.org
or call April Monroe at 732-562-3846