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Special Session on Beyond GPS - Where Navigation Meets Consumer Communications In the last few years a relevant effort has been spent in both industry and academia research in the design and development of integrated positioning, navigation and communication systems. The knowledge of the users' position will become essential for the next generation of wireless and wired architectures and in the implementation of location based applications and services. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) as GPS, Glonass, the coming European Galileo and the Chinese Compass, represent the most accurate source of position information; their actual exploitation in the consumer market, in tight integrated navigation/communication systems, still represents a challenging task. The aim of this special session is to foster interactions among researchers from industry and academia on leading edge location aware solutions in consumer communication systems and services. The focus will be on emerging technologies (e.g.: vehicular networks), which will represent the core infrastructures in the years to come for mass-market and safety applications, based on hybrid navigation and communication devices. Furthermore, the focus will be also on the integration scenarios and on the critical aspects that have to be overcome in the design process, such as the cross-interference and interoperability between navigation and communications devices. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research related to the integration of navigation and communication systems, with specific focus on the integration between GNSS and communication devices and infrastructures. |