International Conference on Localization and GNSS

Tampere, Finland, June 29-30, 2011

Conference and exhibit dates are June 29-30. The exact location is: Tampere Hall, Yliopistonkatu 55, FI-33100 Tampere, Finland.

Driven by both market trends and legal regulations, there is a high demand for providing a robust localization solution, which will be available continuously, regardless the specific environment, i.e., outdoors and indoors, and on different platforms such as stand-alone navigators, PDAs and mobile devices.

This conference addresses the latest research on satellite-based positioning techniques to provide reliable and accurate position information with low latency. The emphasis is on the design of mass-market and professional GNSS receivers and related tools and methodologies. The scope includes (but is not strictly limited to) the following topics:

• Issues in navigation satellite systems (GPS, Galileo, Compass, Glonass, …)
• Antennas and RF front-ends for GNSS receivers
• Baseband hardware and software implementations (tracking, acquisition, ...)
• Multi-system (communication/navigation and multiple GNSS) receivers
• Satellite navigation system and receiver simulators
• Verification and testing of positioning devices
• Test platforms for location-based services
• Location methods for indoor and densely populated urban areas
• Assisted and hybrid (INS, wireless networks, ...) positioning
• Exploitation of augmentation systems (WAAS, EGNOS, ...)
• RAIM, FDE, and dependability of positioning solutions
• PVT computation algorithms
• Design of cognitive positioning architectures and algorithms
• Cooperative location strategies
• Run-time calibration of positioning devices
• Evaluation and benchmarking of positioning receivers and algorithms
• Technology supporting location-based services

This conference is jointly organized by European and American professionals. It aims at inspiring the development of new design, implementation, test and evaluation methodologies for positioning receivers. The conference is strongly emphasizing both quick turn-around time and high quality of the published papers. ICL-GNSS 2011 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society.

We invite you to submit your original full papers on the most recent results and technology trends in the fields of positioning. The papers will be refereed by peer reviewers, and published in electronic proceedings and in the IEEE Xplore.

 Deadlines:

Deadline for Paper Submission: March 31, 2011

Notification of acceptance: April 29, 2011

Camera-Ready Papers Due: May 31, 2011

 Paper Submission:

Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Papers should be four to six pages long in the specified format.

 Papers should be submitted as pdf files prepared according to IEEE two-column A4 format guidelines. A selected subset of papers will be invited to be extended to a special issue on “GNSS receiver technology” in International Journal on Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems (IJERTCS). The best paper of the conference will be awarded.

 For further information, please see http://www.icl-gnss.org/

 ICL-GNSS 2011 General Chair

Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

ICL-GNSS 2011 Program Co-Chairs

Elena-Simona Lohan, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Stephan Sand, DLR, Germany

John Raquet, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA