WMNC 2014 - 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference
Call for Papers


May 20-22, 2014
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
http://wmnc2014.uc.pt/

Organized by: University of Coimbra, Portugal
Sponsored by: IFIP TC6, IEEE


WMNC 2014 - 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference


The 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC 2014) is sponsored by IFIP TC6 and IEEE. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. A "Best Paper Award" and one "Student Travel Grant" will be conferred to the author(s) of a paper presented at the conference. Both awards are supported by IFIP.

WMNC 2014 combines PWC (Personal Wireless Communications conference), MWCN (Mobile and Wireless Communication
Networks conference), and WSAN (Wireless Sensors and Actor Networks conference) into one event. It will be held from 20th to 22nd of May 2014 in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.

WMNC 2014 provides a forum for discussion between researchers, practitioners and students interested in new developments in mobile and wireless networks, services, applications and mobile computing. WMNC 2014 includes three tacks focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics:

Track 1: Wireless and Mobile Communications and Networks

* Wireless technologies design and evaluation
* Handoff management
* Location management
* Resource management
* Network and service management and control
* Energy management and efficiency of protocols and devices
* Cognitive radio networking
* Device-to-device communications
* Routing and scheduling in mobile and wireless networks
* Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks
*
Network security solutions and protocols
* Subscriber privacy
* Authentication, Authorization, Accounting
* Traffic and network modelling
* Analysis, and simulation in wireless/mobile networks
* Virtualized and cloud-based wireless.

Track 2: Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, Ad hoc and Opportunistic Networks, Vehicular Networks

* Machine to Machine communications (M2M)
* Ad-Hoc networking and Delay tolerant networking
* Cross-layer design and optimization
* In-network processing and aggregation of information
* Energy-efficient protocols and power management
* Localization and tracking
* Middleware for WSN and M2M
* Self-organization and reconfiguration
* Security for WSN and M2M
* Physical architectures
* Real-time communications in WSN
* Vehicular networks
* Robots as actor networks
* Nano networks.

Track 3: Applications and Services over Wireless and Mobile
Networks

* Wireless multimedia networking
* Mobile cloud computing and applications
* Multicasting and broadcasting issues
* Multimedia session signalling in wireless/mobile environments
* Digital radio and TV broadcasting
* Mobile computing
* Protocols and platforms for convergence
* QoS and QoE for voice and video in wireless/mobile networks
* Mobile and wireless applications: health, environmental protection
* Wireless Internet applications
* ITS (Intelligent transportation systems)
* Infotainment, pervasive systems, RFID
* Location-based services
* Mobile services
* Content management and distribution
* Context-aware wireless multimedia applications
* Context-aware services
* Information centric networking
* Social networking.


PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES


WMNC 2014 technical program committee invites authors to submit manuscripts with
original research results that have not been previously published or that are not currently under review by another conference or journal. The following contributions are welcome:

(i) Research papers reporting on new trends and developments, (ii) Application papers reporting on academia developments of technologies, products, services, systems and solutions, (iii) Performance evaluation and experimentation papers and (iv) Industry practice papers. 

Two types of submissions are solicited: Regular papers (limited to 8 double column pages with the IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing template) and Work-in-Progress and Industry practice (limited to 4 double column pages).

Font size must be no smaller than 10-points. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the EDAS system. Submissions will be judged based on originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and correctness. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by
Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. Papers presented at the symposium will be considered for a Best Paper Award.

For more information please see the conference site http://wmnc2014.uc.pt/ or contact wmnc2014-chairs@edas.info.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: January 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2014
Camera Ready: March 31, 2014

GENERAL CHAIRS

Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal

TCP CO-CHAIRS

Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal

KEYNOTE CHAIR

Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland

STEERING COMMITTEE

Robert Bestak, Czech Technical University, CZ
Augusto Casaca, Technical University of Lisbon, PT
Pedro Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla La
Mancha, SP
Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Zoubir Mammeri, University of Toulouse, FR
Dora Maros, Obuda University, HU
Ignacious Niemegeers, Delft University of Technology, NL
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, CA
Jozef Wozniak, Technical University of Gdansk, PL

PUBLICATION CHAIR

Jorge Granjal, University of Coimbra, Portugal


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