The 8th annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology (WAMI) Conference will be held on beautiful
Sand Key Beach in Clearwater, FL on December 4th and 5th, 2006.

The conference will address up-to-date multidisciplinary research needs and interdisciplinary aspects of wireless and RF technology.
The program includes oral presentations, poster presentations, and tutorials.

Prospective Authors are invited to submit original and high-quality paper summaries for presentation at the WAMI conference and for publication in its Conference Record. The technical program will cover wireless communication systems and RF technologies IMPORTANT DATES: Extended Abstracts DUE: August 15th Author Notifications: July 24th Final Papers due: September 15th Author's Kit Submission Instructions: All paper submissions to WAMICON 2006 will be handled electronically by the EDAS system. Please use the link below to submit your paper. Note that submission is a two stage process -- you will need to register your paper first and then submit the manuscript. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format. Please use Adobe Distiller to eliminate most font problems. Authors without EDAS user names will be required to register with the system using the same link. http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=4810&

Highlights: Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kumar Balachandran, Ericsson Research, RTP, NC, USA will present a talk tentatively entitled "“Where is the cellular mobile radio going? –Perspectives on 4G." ” Tutorials: On December 4 there are four tutorials planned and admission is included with the general conference registration. Presenters will include: Dr. Ed Callaway, Motorola Labs, with a tutorial on Wireless Sensor Networks Dr. Tom Willis of AT&T Labs, with a tutorial on WiMax Technology. Invited Talks: Among the planned invited papers at this year’s conference will be: *Achievements of European Research Cooperation on Microwave Amplifiers in the TARGET Network' (G. Magerl and T. J. Brazil) - and - *Volterra-Based Behavioral Modeling of Power Amplifiers' (authors A. Zhu and T. J. Brazil) Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Next Generation (3G/4G) wireless communication systems 802.11/HiperLAN2 Wireless LAN Systems (OFDM and multi-carrier) 802.16/WiMax Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks and related technologies Spread spectrum wireless systems Communications in disaster/emergency/rescue Smart antennas, adaptive antenna arrays, MIMO, and space-time processing Cognitive radio, Software Radio, and Emerging Technologies Ultrawideband (UWB) Communication: Applications, system and RF issues Wireless Sensors Networks and Ad Hoc Networks Telemetry and telemedicine application of wireless devices and systems Advanced propagation modeling and sounding of communication channels Cross-layer designs, integration of the physical layer technologies with other layers System Architecture, Integration, and Convergence Issues System Level Design, Modeling, and Simulation RF channel characterization and modeling Front-end subsystems; Low-Power RFIC and System-On-Chip Solutions Power Amplifiers, Linearization and Active Components, incl. NL transistor modeling Advanced wireless and microwave circuit design and packaging , including RF MEMS Base station and handheld antenna technologies, design and measurement RF/Microwave measurement techniques Space/Satellite Communication and related technologies