-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for papers - IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference - WMNC 2011 Datum: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:52:41 +0100 Von: Jaime Lloret Mauri jlloret@dcom.upv.es An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu CC: Zoubir MAMMERI zoubir.mammeri@irit.fr

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********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: IFIP WMNC’2011 http://www.irit.fr/WMNC2011

4th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference Technically co-sponsored by IFIP

October 26th - 28th, 2011 Hammamet, Tunisia

************************************************************************ Submission deadline (may be extended): April 30th, 2011 ************************************************************************

Scope and topics: ================

The aim of WMNC’2011 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from the industry and academia and provide them with a platform to report on recent advances and developments in the emerging areas of wireless and mobile networking and computing. The conference will comprise multi-track sessions for regular papers, work-in-progress sessions, and posters.

WMNC’2011 will consist of three tracks:

* Track 1. Wireless and Mobile Communications and Networks: Wireless technologies design and evaluation - Handoff management - Location management - Connection management - Bandwidth management and capacity enhancement - Resource and information management - Network and service management and control - Energy management and efficiency of protocols and devices - QoS support in mobile and wireless networks - Admission control - Packet and resource scheduling - Routing and scheduling in mobile and wireless networks - Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks - Evolution of networks (evolution of 3G/4G Systems, future generation systems and networks) - Network security solutions and protocols - Subscriber privacy - Authentication, Authorization, Accounting - Traffic and network modeling in wireless/mobile networks - Analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile networks - Evaluation of testbeds.

* Track 2. Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks, Ad hoc Networks: Ad-Hoc networking - Analysis, simulation and measurement - Coordination in actor networks - Communication protocols and algorithms - Cross-layer design and optimization - Energy-efficient protocols and power management - Localization and tracking - Middleware for WSN – Self-organization and reconfiguration - Security for WSN - Physical architectures - Real-time communications in WSN - Vehicular networks - Robots as actor nodes.

* Track 3. Applications and Services over Wireless and Mobile Networks: Wireless multimedia networking - Multicasting and broadcasting issues - Multimedia session signaling in wireless/mobile environments - Digital radio and TV broadcasting - Mobile computing - Protocols and platforms for convergence - Technology integration - Quality of service mapping between technologies - QoS for voice and video in wireless/mobile networks - IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) - Mobile and wireless applications: health, environmental protection - Wireless Internet applications – ITS (Intelligent transportation systems) - Infotainment, pervasive systems, RFID - Location-based services - Mobile services - Content management and distribution - Context-aware wireless multimedia applications - Context-aware services.

Submission of Papers: ====================

WMNC’2011 technical program committee invites authors to submit: - i) research papers reporting on new trends and developments, - ii) Industry and application papers reporting on actual developments of technologies, products, systems and solutions, - iii) performance evaluation and experimentation papers, - iv) tutorial and survey papers.

Two types of submissions are solicited: regular papers (limited to 8 double column pages) and Work-in-Progress and Industry practice (limited to 4 double column pages). Font must be no smaller than 10-points. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format, according to the instructions included in the conference web site. The working language of the conference is English.

***************************************************************** - A*ccepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will only be ****distributed in electronic form. Paper indexing and edition are not yet finalized.* - A best paper award and two travel grants will be awarded to WMNC’2011 attendees. - A maximum of 15 best papers will be selected from accepted and presented papers for publication in a special issue of Telecommunication Systems Journal (Springer). *****************************************************************

To submit paper: http://www.irit.fr/WMNC2011/

Important Dates: ================ Regular paper submission deadline: April 30, 2011 WIP paper submission deadline: May 31, 2011 Author notification: July 13, 2011 Manuscript due date: September 4, 2011

Committees: see http://www.irit.fr/WMNC2011/ ===========

Prof. Zoubir Mammeri, Prof. Sami Tabbane IFIP WMNC'2011 General co-chairs