-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: WONS2004 - Madonna di Campiglio (Italy) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 14:33:40 +0200 From: Mauro Brunato brunato@dit.unitn.it Organization: Università di Trento To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS

WONS 2004 First International Working Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems (sponsorship by IFIP WG 6.3 and 6.8 is pending for approval)

http://dit.unitn.it/wons/ wons@dit.unitn.it

Madonna di Campiglio (Italy) January 21-23, 2004

Wireless LANs are enjoying a growing interest at all levels: research, application, business. The explosive growth of IEEE802.11b (Wi-Fi), the ongoing change of spectrum management policies and the technology boost making wireless wideband a reality are bringing high bandwidth wireless connectivity to the masses. Connectivity and networking built "on-demand", where and when they are needed in an evolutionary and incremental fashion with limited investments, is spawning new research and business opportunities, offering unprecedented possibilities to support working communities and ubiquitous, cooperative computing.

Many aspects of the current wireless LANs growth resemble the rapid, and in part anarchic and unexpected, evolution of the wired Internet. The road is traced and enthusiasm is mounting but many challenges have to be solved before providing seamless communication, reliable quality, secure high bandwidth connectivity, and useful services.

The conference will concentrate on new research issues open in the "wireless Internet" context, including design, modelling and performance evaluation, pricing and profitability models, QoS models and practical implementation. Sound experimental evaluation of new techniques will also be considered.

The meeting will take place in one of the finest winter resorts of the Alps, Madonna di Campiglio, in the Trentino region. The cozy atmosphere of the conference hotel, facing one of the most spectacular panoramas in the Alps, will facilitate concentration and creativity.

The schedule of the meeting will consist of presentations in the morning and in the afternoon/evening. A pause after lunch will allow social activities and informal interaction among the participants.

Topics comprise, but are not limited to:

- Wireless access to the Internet - Modelling and performance evaluation of wireless LANs - Quality of service and pricing ("charging for quality") - Traffic and user activity models - Service differentiation mechanisms - Virtual operators in WiFi networks - Pervasive / ubiquitous computing - Location and context-awareness - Wireless LANs design - Management, authentication, authorization and accounting - On-Demand, Ad-Hoc Networks

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Keynote speech: "Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Protocols and Applications" Mario Gerla, Computer Science Department, UCLA

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Negotiation is in progress with Springer to publish the Conference Proceedings in the series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science".

Extended versions of the best papers will be considered for publication on a special issue of MONET (Kluwer/ACM Mobile Networks and Applications) dedicated to the conference.

A Best Paper Award will be assigned at the conference.

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Important deadlines: - August 1st, 2003 (Hard Deadline): Electronic Full Paper Submission - September 30, 2003: Acceptance Notification - October 15, 2003: Final Version Due

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General Chair: Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy

Local Organization Chairs: Sandro Pera, University of Trento, Italy Alessandro Villani, University of Trento, Italy

Publicity Chairs: Mauro Brunato, University of Trento, Italy

Program Committee Chairs: Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Enrico Conti, CNR Pisa, Italy

Technical Program Committee: Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Eitan Altman, INRIA, France Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy Dr. Hendrik Berndt, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe Alan Albert Bertossi, University of Bologna, Italy Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy Ernst Biersack, Eurecom, France Maurizio Bonuccelli, University of Pisa, Italy Dragan Boscovic, Motorola Research Center of Paris, France Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy A. Chockalingam, IIS, Bangalore, India Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Szabó Csaba, BME, Budapest, Hungary Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marco Conti, CNR of Pisa, Italy Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece Domenico Ferrari, Università Cattolica of Piacenza, Italy Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Silvia Giordano, SUPSI of Lugano, Switzerland Enrico Gregori, CNR of Pisa, Italy Parviz Kermani, IBM - T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Demetres D. Kouvatsos, University of Bradford, UK Kin K. Leung, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA Bo Li, University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong, China Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., KTH, Sweden Petri H. Mähönen, RWTH Aachen, Germany Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy Björn Pehrson, KTH, Sweden Gian Paolo Rossi, University of Milano, Italy M. Yahya "Medy" Sanadidi, UCLA, USA Puneet Sharma, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece Salvatore Tucci, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Bernhard Walke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany Menzo Wentink, Intersil, The Nedtherlands Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin, Germany Hidetoshi Yokota, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, Italy

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