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The Third IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks
(WiMAN'09)
June 26, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
in conjunction with ICDCS 2009
New Submission Deadline: December 17, 2008
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Recently,
wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from academia,
industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable
characteristics, such
as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration,
self-healing, easy maintenance,
high scalability and reliable services,
wireless mesh networks have been advocated
as a cost-effective approach to
support high-speed last mile connectivity and
ubiquitous broadband access in
the context of home networking, enterprise networking,
or community
networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations
from
more than a decade's research effort in mobile ad hoc networks, many research
issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example,
the
introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture,
multi-radio,
multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges
in the design of
physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application
scenarios, such as all-wireless
office, are urging researchers to address
enhanced QoS support and various security
issues in the design of different
protocol layers for wireless mesh networks.
This workshop aims to bring together
the technologies and researchers who share
interest in the area of wireless
mesh and ad hoc networks. The main purpose is to
promote discussions
of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures,
protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless
networks. It also aims
at increasing the synergy between academic and
industry professionals working in this
area. We plan to seek papers that
address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress
at the all layers of
wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the
physical
layer.
Topics covered by the workshop will
include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Multi-radio and multi-channel
wireless mesh networking
- Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc
networking
- MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond)
- Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols
- Quality of
Services provisioning
- Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc
networks
- Network deployment, localization, and synchronization
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Topology construction and maintenance
- Modeling and performance evaluations
- Cross layer optimizations
- Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols
and algorithms
- Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc
networks
- Testbed, prototype, and practical systems
- Novel applications
of mesh and ad hoc networks
- Vehicular mesh and ad hoc networks
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Wireless sensor networks
- Self-adaptive and self-organizing wireless
networking systems
Important Dates
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- Paper submission due: December 17, 2008
- Acceptance notification:
February 7, 2009
- Camera-ready due: March 7, 2009
- Workshop: June 26,
2009
Submissions and
Publications
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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished
research and
recent developments in the topics related to the workshop.
Submissions should include
an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the
corresponding author. The length of
the papers should be limited to 6 pages
in standard IEEE camera-ready format
(double-column, 10-pt font). Authors
must submit their papers through the CMT conference
management site (
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/WIMAN2009).
Submission of a paper
should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the
paper be accepted, at least one
of the authors will register and attend the
workshop to present the work.
All papers will be peer reviewed and the reviewers' comments will be
provided to the authors.
All accepted papers will be published in
workshop proceedings by IEEE Computer Society
Press and IEEE online
library.
Organizing Committees
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Workshop Program Co-Chairs:
Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA
Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA
Publicity Chair:
Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University, USA
Technical Program Committee :
Wessam Ajib, University of Québec at Montréal, Canada
Habib M. Ammari,
Hofstra University,
USA
Hasnaa Aniss, UQAT-LRCS, Canada
Malik Audeh, Tropos Networks,
USA
Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy
Luciano Bononi,
University of Bologna, Italy
Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy
Chun Tung
Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia
Yong Cui, Tsinghua University,
China
Gang Ding, Olympus Communication Technology, USA
Junzhao Du, Xidian
University, China
Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary,
Hungary
Shinichi Honiden, University of Tokyo, Japan
Holger Karl,
University of Paderborn, Germany
Abdelmajid Khelil, TU Darmstadt,
Germany
Ricky Kwok, Colorado State University, USA
Guoqing Li, Intel
Research, USA
Qun Li, College of William and Mary, USA
Hock Beng Lim,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jun Luo, University of Waterloo,
Canada
Guoqiang Mao, The University of Sydney, Australia
Shivajit
Mohapatra, Motorola Labs, USA
Luis Montestruque, EmNet LLC., USA
Qiang Ni,
Brunel University, UK
Frank Reichenbach, ABB AS, Norway
Paolo Santi,
IIT-CNR, Italy
Haiying Shen, University of Arkansas, USA
Aaron Striegel,
University of Notre Dame, USA
David Surma, Indiana University South Bend,
USA
Jianbin Wei, Yahoo!, USA
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