-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [InternetTC] The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2010) Datum: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:52:05 -0800 Von: Habib M. Ammari Habib.M.Ammari@hofstra.edu An: itc@comsoc.org itc@comsoc.org

The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2010)

http://people.hofstra.edu/Habib_M_Ammari/WiMAN_Workshop2010.html In conjunction with ICCCN 2010 Zurich, Switzerland, August 2-5, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop Objectives

Recently, wireless mesh and ad hoc networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade of research efforts in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introduction of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks.

This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. Its main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. Also, this workshop aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the physical layer.

Topics covered in this workshop will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

• Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking • Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN • Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking • MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) • Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols • Implications of smart antennas on MAC and routing protocols • Quality of Services provisioning • Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks • Network deployment, localization, and synchronization • Topology construction and maintenance • Methods and tools for mesh and ad hoc networks simulation • Modeling and performance evaluations • Physical layer techniques • Cross layer optimizations • Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms • Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures • Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks • Security-related issues in mesh and ad hoc networks • Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks • Wireless sensor networks and RFID • Test beds, prototypes, and practical systems

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Detailed submission instructions will be posted on the workshop webpage. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.

Important Dates

Paper submission due: March 15, 2010 (Monday, 23:59 EST) Acceptance notification: April 30, 2010 Camera-ready due: May 14, 2010 Registration due: May 14, 2010

Publication

We expect to accept about 30 papers. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Habib M. Ammari (Hofstra University, USA) Jun Luo (Nanyang Technological University)

Technical Program Committee

Wessam Ajib (University of Quebec at Montreal) Hasnaa Aniss (UQAT-LRCS, Canada) Malik Audeh (Tropos Networks, USA) Stefano Avallone (University of Naples, Italy) Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna, Italy) Raffaele Bruno (IIT-CNR, Italy) Chung Tun Chou (Univ. of New South Wales) Yong Cui (Tsinghua University, China) Gang Ding (Olympus Communication Techn.) Junzhao Du (Xidian University, China) Karoly Farkas (University of West Hungary) Shinichi Honiden (University of Tokyo) Holger Karl (University of Paderborn, Germany) Abdelmajid Khelil (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Ricky Kwok (Colorado State University, USA) Guoqing Li (Intel Research, USA) Qun Li (College of William and Mary, USA) Hock Beng Lim (Nanyang Techn. University) Jun Luo (Nanyang Techn. University) Guoqiang Mao (The University of Sydney) Shivajit Mohapatra (Motorola Labs, USA) Luis Montestruque (EmNet LLC, USA) Qiang Ni (Brunei University, UK) Frank Reichenbach (ABB AS, Norway) Paolo Santi (IIT-CNR, Italy) Haiying Shen (University of Arkansas, USA) Aaron Striegel (University of Notre Dame, USA) David Surma (Indiana University South Bend) Jianbin Wei (Yahoo!, USA) Xiliang Zhong (Microsoft, USA)

Advisory Committee

Hossein Hakimzadeh, Indiana University South Bend, USA Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA Yingbo Hua, University of California Riverside, USA Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA Bahar Sadeghi, Intel Research, USA Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, USA Wei Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Steering Committee

Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA