-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP - WMASH 2003 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:48:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Scott Seongwook Lee sslee@cs.ucla.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM WMASH 2003

The First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots ==========================================================

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE (pending approval) (In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2003)

September 19, 2003 San Diego, CA, USA

http://wmash2003.cs.ucla.edu

The goal of the workshop is to address and discuss the technical and business challenges, ideas, views, and research results in providing a public wireless Internet services and applications for nomadic users in small, highly-populated, public spaces (wireless LANs and "hotspots").

There are several research issues still to be explored in the public WLAN arena. What is the overall network architecture and service model? How to roam through multiple wireless access providers with a unique service contract? How to decouple the wireless infrastructure providers from the Internet service (and content) providers? How to locate service facilities in the wireless access domain and how to match the available facilities with the user needs? How to exploit location and context information? How to provide differentiated service levels to different customers?

This workshop is aimed at discussing these and several other technical and business challenges behind the evolution of WLANs from cable replacement to public access mean. Leaders and thinkers of the field from academia and industry will assemble to share their ideas and views. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers or position papers, describing current research and visions of the future. We are specifically interested in work focusing on Transport layer and above (layers 4-7). Within the context of interest to this workshop, a list of topics includes, but not limited to

- applications and services - public WLAN architectures - community-owned WLAN infrastructures - WLAN-based ad hoc network service creation and management - new service and business models - interworking and cooperation with public cellular systems - mobility, roaming, and handoff management - context-aware services and technologies - location-aware applications and services - multimedia wireless applications - authentication, accounting, billing and payment - security and privacy - middleware support - service location and discovery - traffic measurements and modeling - case studies on deployed platforms and experimental testbeds

Please consult the Program Co-Chairs Giuseppe Bianchi and Sung-Ju Lee if you are uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the workshop.

Paper Submission Guidelines:

Papers that are unpublished and are not currently under review by other journals, conferences, or workshops are solicited. We are interested in:

- technical papers that describe original research results - position papers that proposes new technologies or shares future vision (similar to challenges papers in MobiCom)

All submissions will be handled electronically. The paper must be in either PDF or PostScript format. The page limit of the regular technical papers is 15 pages and the position papers is 10 pages in US Letter sized paper in single column with reasonable margins. Please use font sizes of at least 10 points.

All papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee members. Papers will be judged by their technical merit, originality, and relevance to the workshop. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings. Selected papers will also be included in a special issue of an ACM journal. We expect authors of the accepted papers will attend the workshop and present their work.

Organizing Committee

General Chair:

Parviz Kermani IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Hawthorne, NY, USA parviz@us.ibm.com

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

Giuseppe Bianchi Department of Electronic and Information University of Palermo Palermo, Italy bianchi@elet.polimi.it

Sung-Ju Lee Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Palo Alto, CA, USA sjlee@hpl.hp.com

Publicity Chair:

Scott Seongwook Lee Computer Science Department University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA sslee@cs.ucla.edu

Publications Chair:

Janise McNair Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, FL, USA mcnair@ece.ufl.edu

Technical Program Committee:

To be announced.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: June 1, 2003 Notification: July 18, 2003 Camera Ready due: August 1, 2003

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