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The First Workshop on Wireless Multihop Communications in Networked Robotics

(WMCNR 2008) April 4th, Berlin, Germany http://www.wmcnr.org

in conjunction with 6th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt'08) March 31-April 4, Berlin, Germany http://www.wiopt.org

Call for papers: http://www.wmcnr.org/CFP_WMCNR2008.pdf ============================================================================

*** Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2007 (Extended) *** Submission guidelines are given at workshop webpage http://www.wmcnr.org

*** Submission should be done through COCUS : http://cocus.create-net.it

Call for Papers

The wireless multihop communication has been one of key research issues in recent years both in academia and wireless industry. It encompasses ad hoc radio networks, sensor networks, wireless mesh networks and mobile multihop relay related to the industrial and standardization activities such as IEEE 802.11s, 802.15.4, 802.16j, etc. Further the multihop communications can be combined with cooperative communications and network coding, which attracted more researchers in this field.

The idea behind such multihop communications is to utilize the availability of other nodes or to borrow their transmission capability. This in many cases exceeds the delay caused by the multihop relay, the gain from which is capacity enhancement as well as coverage extension of plain radio networks.

Now we turn our attention to the robotics area. In these days, many researchers are noticing group behaviors found in small insects or animals such as ants, birds, and fish, trying to realize such behaviors into the control and coordination of a team of robots with their local interaction. The multiple (usually small) robots communicate each other, sharing the same mission, naturally through wireless communications. In this respect, wireless multihop communication is an excellent candidate for inter-robot information exchange.

The main idea of this workshop is to bridge the above two areas (wireless multihop communications and networked robotics) by opening a place for researchers to meet and exchange their ideas. The workshop welcomes submissions on all aspects of the themes, which include (but not limited to) the following topics:

- Communication architecture for collaborative robot systems - Biologically inspired swarm robotics with networking functionality - Multiple robot networking with mutihop- and cooperative communications - Network coding and wireless relay technologies for cooperative robotics - Learning and adaptation in cooperative environments - Applications of multi-robot network systems - Ad hoc robot networks - Cognitive communication technologies for inter-robot team work - Exploiting robot mobility in wireless relay networks - QoS support in networked robotics - Wireless multihop networks under node mobility

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Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2007 (Extended) Notification of acceptance: January 5, 2008 Camera-ready papers due: February 1, 2008

Submission guidelines are given at workshop webpage : http://www.wmcnr.org Submission should be done through COCUS : http://cocus.create-net.it ============================================================================

Workshop Chair: Seong-Lyun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (slkim@yonsei.ac.kr)

Technical Programming Chairs: Riku Jantti, Helsinki Univ. Tech., Finland (wireless communications, riku.jantti@tkk.fi) DaeEun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (networked robotics, daeeun@yonsei.ac.kr)

Technical Programming Committee: Timothy Brown, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, USA Wolfram Burgard, Univ. Freiburg, Germany Song Chong, KAIST, Korea Brian Gerkey, SRI, USA Norihiro Hagita, ATR, Japan Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland Mikael Johansson, Royal Inst. Tech., Sweden Rolf Johansson, Lund Univ., Sweden Smail Menani, PUV, Finland Klaus Schilling, Univ. Wuerzburg, Germany Dezhen Song, Texas A&M Univ., USA Mani B. Srivastava, UCLA, USA Sameer Tilak, Univ. California, San Dieo, USA Andreas Willig, Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany Alan FT Winfield, Univ. West England, UK Yuping Zhao, Peking Univ., China

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For questions about the workshop, please contact us at "wmcnr@ramo.yonsei.ac.kr"

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