If anyone in Europe wants to submit a paper on APRS and other AX.25 satellite relay, this conference might be a good match. We like to think of the 145.825 AMSATs as a continuum of remote-data access for student experiments and remote data access…

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IEEE Conference on Wireless for Space & Extreme Environments Seeks Papers

WASHINGTON (9 July 2014) -- Organizers of the International Conference on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments (WiSEE) are seeking papers and posters that address solutions to the significant challenges of wireless sensing and communication in space (and extreme environments). http://sites.ieee.org/wisee/

The submission deadline is 1 August.

Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to:

* Low-power active wireless sensors, systems & networks

* Passive wireless sensors, systems & networks

* RFID devices & systems

* Protocols & architectures for delay & disruption-tolerant networking

* Network architectures, middleware integration & data management

* Cognitive radio networks

* Localization & tracking over wireless links

* Antenna design, smart antennas, beam forming & multiple-antenna techniques

* Propagation modelling for planetary surfaces & complex multipath environments

* Wireless & cyber security

* Optical communication systems

* Availability, certification & spaceflight qualification for wireless devices & systems

* Integrated vehicle systems

For more information and to submit a paper or poster, see http://sites.ieee.org/wisee/call-for-papers/.

WiSEE 2014 will be held at the European Space Agency’s European Space and Technology Research Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, 30-31 October 2014.

The event will bring together investigators from international space agencies, including ESA, the Canadian Space Agency and NASA, along with aerospace and space defense industries and academic researchers, in an effort to understand and solve emerging problems facing wireless sensing and communication during spaceflight and in extreme environments such as planetary surfaces, space vehicles and space habitats.

Background

The many challenges faced in space sensing and communication are extremely diverse and overlap significantly with those found in extreme environments on earth. These environments pose significant challenges for radio frequency and optical wireless sensing and communication and will require the application of a broad range of technologies to generate reliable and cost-effective solutions. Although specific challenges vary significantly from one environment to another, many of the solutions offered by sensing, communication and statistical signal processing technologies can be applied in multiple environments.

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