-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2006 (IEEE MHWMN'06) Datum: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:43:48 -0400 (EDT) Von: Mieso Denko denko@cis.uoguelph.ca An: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2006 (IEEE MHWMN'06) Website: http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~qzeng/MHWMN2006/CFP.htm

In conjunction with IEEE MASS 2006 (www.ieee-mass.org), Vancouver, Canada, October 9-12, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

AIM and SCOPE

The traditional centralized wireless and mobile networks are based on single-hop architecture and rely on the existing fixed infrastructure such as base stations or access points. The proliferation and deployment of radio access networks such as Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Wireless PANs with distinguishing characteristics of data rate, coverage range, power, mobility, and prices will clearly lead to a need for seamless and ubiquitous access across these various networks. Such an integrated heterogeneous environment enables a user to access a particular network depending upon the application needs and the types of radio access networks (RANs) available (e.g., cellular network, ad hoc, WLAN, WPAN etc). The heterogeneous multi-hop wireless and mobile networks, on the other hand, provide unlimited mobility and greater flexibility but introduce a number of challenges due to dynamic network topology. The design of efficient and scalable protocols for existing multi-hop wireless and mobile networks such as wireless and mobile ad hoc networks continue to pose challenges at all the layers of networking stack. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate a global heterogeneous architecture and services that together provide seamless integration of single-hop networks (e.g., cellular, WLAN, WWAN) and multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the latest research and future research directions in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless and mobile networks. We are seeking original and previously unpublished research papers addressing theoretical and application issues in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless mobile networks.

TOPICS

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

Multi-hop architectures and protocols for resource management Quality of services (QoS) delivery in MHWMN Seamless Mobility, Vertical Handoff Robust and scalable routing protocols for MHWMN MAC protocols for MHWMN Self-configuration and synchronization for MHWMN Security issues in MHWMN Topology control and management for MHWMN Mobility models and location management in MHWMN Cross-layer design and interactions for MHWMN Modeling and performance evaluation for MHWMN Algorithms for localization and signal processing in MHWMN Implementation testbeds for MHWMN Operating systems and middleware for MHWMN Mesh networks

SUBMISSION

Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. The manuscript must follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is eight (8) pages. Authors are requested to submit their papers (PDF format), contact addresses, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail addresses (text format) to the co-chairs, Qing-An Zeng (qzeng@ececs.uc.edu) and Mieso Denko (denko@cis.uoguelph.ca) by June 15, 2006.

SPECIAL ISSUE

Some selected high quality papers from the workshop will be published in the Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI)) (http://www.juci.org/) as Special Issue on Heterogeneous Mobile and Wireless Networks. For this purpose, the authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: June 15, 2006 Notification of acceptance: July 20, 2006 Camera-ready papers: August 10, 2006

WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR: Anup Kumar Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department University of Louisville, KY 40292, USA Email: ak@louisville.edu

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS: Qing-An Zeng Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030, USA Email: qzeng@ececs.uc.edu

Mieso Denko Department of Computing and Information Science University of Guelph, Guelph Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1 Email: denko@cis.uoguelph.ca

PUBLICITY CHAIR: Poonacha Machaiah Seamless Mobility Wireless Broadband and Wireline Services Motorola, Inc., USA Email: poonacha.machaiah@motorola.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Boukerche, Azzedine: University of Ottawa, Canada Caffery, James: University of Cincinnati, USA Cheng, Xiuzhen: George Washington University, USA Conrad, James: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Datta, Suprakash: York University, Canada Feng, Wu-Chun: Virginia Tech, USA Ketseoglou, Thomas: California State Polytechnic University, USA Leung, Victor C. M.: The University of British Columbia, Canada Li, Wei (Wayne): University Toledo, USA Nakano, Koji: Hiroshima University, Japan Nasser, Nidal: University of Guelph, Canada Olariu, Stephan: Old Dominion University, USA Pierre, Samuel: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Song, Jian: Tsinghua University, China Srimani, Pradip K.: Clemson University, USA Tseng, Yu-Chee: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Vlajic, Natalija: York University, Canada Wang, Li-Chun: National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan Watanabe, Takashi: University of Shizuoka, Japan Wu, Hong-Yi: University of Louisiana, USA Xue, Guoliang (Larry): Arizona State University, USA Yang, Yuanyuan: SUNY at Stony Brook, USA Youn, Jon (Jong-Hoon): University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Zhang, Jingyuan: University of Alabama, USA Zhou, Hong: University of Southern Queensland, Australia

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