Call for Participation: OMG's SBC Workshop

Contact:
Stephanie Covert
Object Management Group
+1-781-444 0404 ext. 142
pr@omg.org

Call for Participation: OMG's Second Annual Software-Based Communications
Workshop: Expanding the Vision
August 15-18, 2005; San Diego, CA

Needham, MA, USA - April 11, 2005 - The Object Management Group™ (OMG™), a software consortium responsible for establishing distributed computing specifications, today announced a call for participation for its Software-Based Communications (SBC) Workshop: Expanding the Vision. The workshop, sponsored by Boeing (www.boeing.com), will take place August 15-18, 2005 in San Diego, CA, USA. The call for participation runs until May 20, 2005. All workshop and call details are available at http://www.omg.org/sbc05 .

Since OMG began SBC standardization efforts to support software application portability and interoperability for software-defined radios (SDR), the technology has matured. SBC applicability is growing to address a wide range of application areas including automotive, public safety, global tracking, consumer electronics and cellular network infrastructure. In response to this growth, OMG is advancing to a broader vision encompassing these new applications. In this context, the workshop Program Committee is seeking proposals for presentations of experience reports, evaluations, case studies or research papers on topics relevant to (but not limited to):

Patterns and design for communications hardware/software
Applying Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®) to Software-based Communications
Software Frameworks, Architectures, Platforms and PSMs
Experience reports, case studies and best practices
Products and Tools
SBC Standards (OMG, OBSAI, CPRI, and 3GPP)
Real-time modeling
Real-time component-based architectures
Hardware / software co-design
Synergy between the underlying physical architecture and the software architecture on the context of design impacts and constraints
Project Management
SBC State of the Art
High Capacity (Bandwidth & Frequency) Mobile Datalinks
Data Communication Networks
Waveforms (GSM, WCDMA)
Value add IP Networks
Radio Base Stations
Certification
Security
Using Software-based communications to enable the Global Information Grid
Future Directions
Instructions

In addition, proposals for panel sessions in any of the above areas are also welcomed. Proposals are welcomed for half-day tutorials on established techniques and standards in any of the areas touched on in this call.

Interested individuals or organizations are invited to submit a brief (up to 600 word) abstract of their proposed workshop presentation by April 25, 2005 using this web form: http://www.omg.org/abstracts.

The Program Committee will select presentations for inclusion in the program and notify authors by Thursday, May 26, 2005. Final presentation materials will be required from all selected presenters by Monday, August 1, 2005. The final workshop agenda and registration details will be available by Tuesday, May 31, 2005 and posted at http://www.omg.org/sbc05.

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