*** Submission Deadline Extended to June 10th, 2012 ***

[Apologies in advance, if you receive multiple copies]

International Workshop on
Practical Issues and Applications in Next Generation Wireless Networks
(PINGEN)

in conjunction with ACM MOBICOM 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, August 26, 2012

http://avealabs.com/pingen2012

Scope:
In recent years, there is growing demand for data traffic on next generation
wireless networks due to the proliferation of data hungry applications
(e.g. streaming video, interactive traffic flows, etc) and emergence of 
smart
terminal devices and their applications, such as smart grids, mobile cloud
services, advanced healthcare systems, intelligent transportation systems.
On the other hand, need for ubiquitous computing and high mobility
support
also become evident as users are more and more asking for “any-time 
any-where”
connectivity. Hence, an important challenge for telecom vendors and 
operators
is devising and deploying cost-effective yet high capacity infrastructures,
which support also large coverage and high mobility. Such a challenge puts
forward an ever enlarging set of problems, both on intra-technology as 
well as
inter-technology domains, putting integration challenges also in the 
picture.
This workshop focuses on design and deployment issues of next generation
wireless infrastructures, potentially made up of heterogeneous access
technologies, supporting a wide range of applications and user needs in a
coherent and unified manner. This workshop will bring together people from
different research areas, and provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss
solutions, and share experiences among researchers, professionals,
and
application developers both from industry and academia in all aspects of 
next
generation wireless networks.

Subjects of interests include, but are not limited to:

- Heterogeneous network (HetNets) deployment strategies
- Business models, network management and offloading strategies for 
user-deployed infrastructure
- Distributed algorithms and protocols for policy control in 
heterogeneous communication technologies
- Energy-efficient network architectures and protocols, resource 
management techniques
- System Architectures and Applications for Smart Grid
- Smart Grid Communication Networks and System Simulators
- Experiences from real-world wireless network deployment, test-bed and 
field trials
- Innovative mobile application frameworks for seamless integration
- Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications and technologies in 
heterogeneous networks
- Coverage and capacity
issues in future wireless cellular networks
- Mobile cloud service models for high mobility
- Data mining and large-scale mobile data management techniques in 
facilitating heterogeneous access
- QoS (Quality-of-Service), scalability and reliability issues in 
heterogeneous networks
- Unified security, trust and privacy issues

Submission:

For submission instructions please visit workshop site at 
http://avealabs.com/pingen2012

Important dates:

- Paper Submission Deadline: June 10th, 2012
- Notification of Acceptance: June 18th, 2012
- Camera Ready Paper and Registration Due: July 2nd, 2012

Workshop Chairs:
Dr. Salih Ergüt (AveaLabs) (salih.ergut@avea.com.tr)
Prof. Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology) 
(siva@ece.gatech.edu)

Program Chairs:
Dr. Çagri Güngör (Bahçesehir
University) (cagri.gungor@bahcesehir.edu.tr)
Dr. Zhu Han (University of Houston) (zhan2@mail.uh.edu)
Dr. Zafer Sahinoglu (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) 
(zafer@merl.com)
Dr. Hamed Mohsenian-Rad (Texas Tech University) 
(hamed.mohsenian-rad@ttu.edu)

Publicity Chair:
Dr. Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) (mcvuran@cse.unl.edu)

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M. Can Vuran, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Cyber-Physical Networking Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0115

Office: 107 Schorr Center
Phone: (402) 472-5019
Fax: (402) 472-7767
http://cpn.unl.edu

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