(Apologies for multiple copies) Please note that the deadline has been extended to February 1, 2006. The Twenty-Third Biennial Symposium on Communications http://www.ece.queensu.ca/symposium/ will be held in historic Kingston, Ontario, Canada, May 30-June 1, 2006, with a welcoming reception on the evening of May 29, 2006. Original papers are encouraged in all areas related to communications systems and networks. Published papers will be available online through IEEE Explore. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Communication Theory - Information Theory and Coding - Smart Antennas, MIMO Systems and Space-Time Coding - Signal Processing for Communications - Cooperative Transmission and Reception - Multimedia Communications and Security - Audio, Image and Video Processing - Wireless Networks - Adhoc and Sensor Networks - Ultrawideband Systems - Computer Communication - Optical Communication and Networks - Mobile Computing and Networks - Communications over Powerlines - Multiuser Multimedia Communication Authors wishing to have papers considered for the Symposium should electronically submit their 4-page full papers in PDF format by January 25, 2006, through EDAS at http://edas.info/index.php Important Dates: - Four-page Full Paper Submission Due: February 1, 2006 (Extended) - Notification of Acceptance: March 10, 2006 - Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 31, 2006 Plenary Speakers: - Philip A. Chou, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research - Sumi Helal, Professor, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department, University of Florida - Hamid Jafarkhani, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine Symposium Chair: Steven Blostein, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University Technical Program Co-Chairs: Geoffrey Chan, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University Hossam Hassanein, School of Computing, Queen's University Publications Chair: Fady Alajaji, Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University Local Arrangements Chair: Peter McLane, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University Technical Program Committee Emad Aboelela (Univ. of Massachusetts Dartmouth) Raviraj Adve (University of Toronto) Sofiène Affes (INRS-EMT, Université du Québec) Sonia Aissa (INRS-EMT, Université du Québec) Jan Bajcsy (McGill University) Amir Banihashemi (Carleton University) Norman Beaulieu (University of Alberta) Abderrahim Benslimane (Université d'Avignon) Holger Boche (Heinrich-Hertz-Institut) Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa) Joseph Jean Boutros (ENST, Paris) John Cartledge (Queen's University) Lawrence Chen (McGill University) Jinho Choi (UNSW) Timothy Davidson (McMaster University) Randa El-Marakby (University of Windsor) Ehab Elmallah (University of Alberta) Mohamed Eltoweissy (Virginia Tech) Paul Fortier (Université Laval) Matthias Frank (University of Bonn) Ling Guan (Ryerson University) Amr Helmy (University of Toronto) Pin-Han Ho (University of Waterloo) Hamid Jafarkhani (University of California, Irvine) Muhammad Jaseemuddin (Ryerson University) Navin Kashyap (Queen's University) Amir K. Khandani (University of Waterloo) Il-Min Kim (Queen's University) Frank Kschischang (University of Toronto) Shiva Kumar (McMaster University) Thomas Kunz (Carleton University) Fabrice Labeau (McGill University) Tho Le-Ngoc (McGill University) Baochun Li (University of Toronto) Ben Liang (University of Toronto) Dave Lie (University of Toronto) Teng Joon Lim (University of Toronto) Tam?s Linder (Queen's University) Ellen Liu (University of Manitoba) Ashraf Matrawy (Carleton University) Ali Miri (University of Ottawa) Jelena Misic (University of Manitoba) Nidal Nasser (University of Guelph) Ioanis Nikolaidis (University of Alberta) Ioannis Psaromiligkos (McGill University) Sebastien Roy (Laval University) Robert Schober (University of British Columbia) Abdallah Shami (University of Western Ontario)