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CALL FOR PAPERS

DIWANS 2006

2nd Workshop on Dependability Issues in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Sensor Networks

URL: http://www.iit.cnr.it/~diwans06/

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE

In participation with IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing

To be held in conjunction with MobiCom 2006 (12th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking)

September 25, 2006

Los Angeles, California USA

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Submission Deadline Extended!!!: June 30, 2006

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MOTIVATION AND THEME

Widespread proliferation of wireless RF technology has brought the

possibility of infrastructureless networking to the forefront.

Infrastructureless networks include both wireless ad hoc

networks and sensor networks as important classes. Dependability

issues such as reliability, availability, quality of service and

security are made more challenging by the wireless and

infrastructureless environment. Reliability and availability

challenges include the varying characteristics of a wireless channel,

which is subject to interference, fading, and multipath effects.

General quality of service mechanisms become even more important due

to bandwidth and other resource limitations. Challanges such as

dealing with partitioned operation have led to new research areas

such as delay-tolerant networking. The presence of mobile nodes in

many of these settings complicates further the dependability issues.

Clearly, these dependability challenges must be met before the full

promise of ad hoc and sensor networks can be realized.

GOAL AND TOPICS

The main goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers to

focus exclusively on the important topic of dependability issues in

ad hoc and sensor networks, to outline its specific and unique

research challenges, and to identify some of the most promising

candidate solution methods and techniques to address those challenges.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Adaptive network protocols

- Distributed algorithms for dependability

- Network lifetime modeling and evaluation

- Impact of mobility on dependability

- Dependability case studies

- QoS adaptation

- Fault-tolerant and/or secure routing

- Dependability techniques for resource constrained environments

- Space-time routing

- Network-level techniques for mitigating unreliable wireless links

- Countering denial of service and energy-draining attacks

- Dependable and secure services

- Coverage and connectivity problems

- Security against physical attacks

- Data availability and consistency

- Error-tolerant data aggregation in sensor networks

- Handling network partitions

- Delay-tolerant networking

- Mobility-assisted routing

SUBMISSIONS

Papers should be written in English, must conform to the proceedings

publication format (ACM Conference Style) and should not exceed eight

pages, including text, references, figures and appendices. Papers

must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication

elsewhere. The paper must be submitted electronically in .pdf format

through the EDAS submission system. Accepted papers will be published

in the official workshop proceedings.

For more information, please contact one of the PC Chairs:

Parmesh Ramanathan (parmesh@ece.wisc.edu)

Shivakant Mishra (mishras@cs.colorado.edu)

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: June 30, 2006 (extended)

Notification of Acceptance: July 24, 2006

Camera Ready version due: August 3, 2006

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

General Chair:

Douglas Blough,

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Program Chairs:

Parmesh Ramanathan

University of Wisconsin, USA

Shivakant Mishra

University of Colorado, USA

Finance Chair:

Paolo Santi

IIT - CNR, Italy

Panel Chair:

Saurabh Bagchi

Purdue University, USA

Publication Chair:

Karthikeyan Sundaresan

NEC Labs, USA

Technical Program Committee:

Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue University, USA

Christian Bettstetter, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa, Italy

Kevin Fall, Intel Corporation, USA

Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA

Kewal Saluja, University of Wisconsin, USA

Paolo Santi, IIT - CNR, Italy

Ulrich Schmid, Wien Technical University, Austria

Rajeev Shorey, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ossama Younis, University of Arizona, USA

Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois, USA