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EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE! paper registration and upload deadline: June 4, 2008 (firm)

SPECIAL ISSUE: We are happy to announce that a Special Issue on "Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks" of the Elsevier's Performance Evaluation Journal will contain a revised and extended version of selected best papers from PE-WASUN 2008 as well as additional papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ACM PE-WASUN 2008

5th ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks

(Jointly with the 11th ACM MSWiM Symposium)

http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/pe-wasun08

Vancouver, CANADA 27-31 October, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------

Scope -----

Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice.

This workshop aims to bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Analytical modeling - Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks - Queuing and network information theoretic analysis - Tracing and trace analysis - Software tools for network performance and evaluation - Simulation methods - Automatic performance analysis - Performance comparison - Performance of wireless and sensor devices - RF channel capacity modeling and analysis - Mobility modeling and management - Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks - Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks - Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks - Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning - Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks - Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks

Workshop Co-Chairs: -------------------

Luciano Bononi University of Bologna, Italy (bononi@cs.unibo.it) Isabelle Guerin Lassous University of Lyon I/LIP, France (Isabelle.Guerin-Lassous@ens-lyon.fr)

Program Committee Members: --------------------------

Paolo Bellavista University of Bologna, Italy Fernando Boavida University of Coimbra, Portugal Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Raouf Boutaba University of Ottawa, Canada Raffaele Bruno IIT-CNR, Italy Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Patras University, Greece Guillaume Chelius INRIA/CITI, France Carla Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Michele Colajanni University of Modena, Italy Francesca Cuomo University of Roma La Sapienza, Italy Marcelo Dias de Amorim CNRS/LIP6, France Falko Dressler Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Bertrand Ducourthial UTC, France Vittoria Gianuzzi University of Genova, Italy Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Bernard Mans Macquarie University, Australia Pietro Manzoni Politechnic Univ. of Valencia, Spain Tommaso Melodia State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Geyong Min Bradford University, UK Jelena Misic University of Manitoba, Canada Sotiris Nikoletseas Computer Technology Institute, Greece Mirela Notare Barddal University, Brazil Yasunori Owada Space-Time Engineering Inc., Japan Andrea Passarella IIT-NR, Italy Chiara Petrioli University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Anna Philippou University of Cyprus, Cyprus Samuel Pierre Ecole Polytechnique Montré, Canada Pedro M. Ruiz University of Murcia, Spain Marco Spohn Federal Univ. of Campina Grande, Brazil Damla Turgut University of Central Florida, USA

Paper Submission: ----------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. The length of the papers should not exceed 8 single-spaced, two-column pages, ACM style including tables/figures. A template for ACM SIG Proceedings style (LaTeX2e and MSWord) can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. Accepted papers will appear in the ACM workshop proceedings.

Papers should be submitted via OpenConf on the following link: http://pe-wasun08.conf.citi.insa-lyon.fr/openconf/openconf.php.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE: a Special Issue on "Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks" of the Elsevier's Performance Evaluation Journal will contain a revised and extended version of selected best papers from PE-WASUN 2008 as well as additional papers.

Important Dates: ----------------

Paper registration due: June 4st, 2008 - Extended! Full paper due: June 4st, 2008 - Extended! Acceptance notifcation: July 1st, 2008 Camera ready due: TBA

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