-------- Original Message -------- Subject: E-NEXT.members: Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee) Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:09:06 +0200 From: Kave Salamatian Kave.Salamatian@lip6.fr To: members@ist-e-next.net

The Second International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee) (co-located with WiOpt)

April 3, 2006 Boston, Massachusetts, USA http://www.winmee.org/

WiNMee 2006 will be the second international workshop on Wireless Network Measurement. The first workshop, WiNMee 2005, was held in Lago di Gardi, Italy, and was highly successful with 32 submissions and 13 accepted papers. This year we hope to build on the success of last year by bringing researchers together to discuss the next generation of wireless network measurement research. Wireless networking has attracted much recent interest. Nonetheless, performance evaluation of wireless protocols, networks, and applications are still largely based on simulations. Only recently have researchers turned their attention to measuring real-world networks; building models based on real-world data, and using testbeds to more realistically evaluate their proposed ideas. Accurate network measurements have proven to be a different and a greater challenge than in wired networks. Accurate data models that reflect the unique characteristics of wireless networks have also proven to be more of a challenge. Wireless network testbeds have proven to be yet another difficult environments in which to work due to the many unique properties of the wireless medium. For example, results in wireless testbeds are often difficult to reproduce due to performance variations caused by location, weather, time of day, and other uncontrollable external variables. Testbeds are also challenging because implementing novel solutions often requires significant changes to the network as well as careful observation and measurement.

The committee for WiNMee 2006 is soliciting 6 page papers that report on experiences obtained from operational wireless experiments, either in testbeds or in the field. Topics include: * Operational experience on the performance of wireless networks * Challenges with wireless measurements * Experimental (in)validation of assumptions in a wireless environments * Metrics for wireless network for performance evaluation * Wireless network troubleshooting techniques and recommendations * Experience with building/designing wireless networks * Description of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds * Techniques for testbed scaling * Techniques for improving experiment repeatability * Techniques for validating results obtained from wireless testbeds * Methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration * Mobility pattern implementation

Important Dates Submission deadline: December 4, 2005 Notification deadline: January 26, 2006 Camera-ready due: February 26, 2006 Workshop: April 3, 2006

Submission Instructions Submitted papers should not exceed 6 pages in length and should be formatted in two columns with a point size greater or equal to 10.

Workshop Chairs Kevin Almeroth (University California, Santa Barbara) Kave Salamatian (LIP6-University Pierre et Marie Curie)

Technical Program Committee Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Anish Arora, Ohio State, USA Chadi Barakat, INRIA , France Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC-Santa Barbara, USA Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth , USA Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth, USA Ed Knightly, Rice University , USA Josep Mangues, CTTC, Spain Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research, UK Ashu Sabharwal, Rice University, USA Kave Salamatian, LIP6 , France Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA Aruna Seneviratne, National ICT, Australia Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Thomas Ziegler, FTW , Austria

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