-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Call for papers, The 13th IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLNs) Datum: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:04:13 -0400 Von: Jelena Misic jmisic@scs.ryerson.ca An: Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

WLNs Phase Shift in Next Generation Networks

Wireless Local Networks (WLNs) play a key role in a plethora of domains.

From smart phones to smart cities, applications spanning our engaging

planet boost the impact of IT on our daily lives. WLNs present many unique and dynamic challenges, yet their utilization is on a rapid rise. As a technology, the combination of relatively low costs and ease of deploy-ment has led many communities to rely on local wireless infrastructures. Those encompass-ing the Internet of Things (IoT), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) networks, Clouds of Sensing (CoS), and Software Defined Networks (SDNs), which form a significant evolution towards Next Generation Networks (NGNs) in its global scope. However, the rapid pace of their deployment and utilization have rarely adequately addressed up front caveats; includ-ing planning and ongoing support requirements. This can manifest in degraded levels of service and significant sustainability exposures, dramatically increasing failure rates of user adoption and seamless usage. In its 13th year, the WLN workshop will focus on how such wireless networks can be resilient, while maintaining the promised high levels of service quality in NGNs. We consider design and implementation dimensions in WLNs that will ena-ble change phase towards NGNs and demonstrate added utility in providing sustainable global communication networks. WLN this year will feature multiple special sessions with the following list of non-exclusive topics of interest:

1 . RFID networks in the IoT.  Planning of RFID networks.  RFID scalable anti-collision protocols.  Localization of RFID-tagged objects.  2. Software Defined Networks (SDN) in Dynamically Changing Environments.  Integration and coexistence issues towards NGNs.  New paradigms like Information Centric Networks (ICN) and their relation with SDN.  Practical experiments on SDN based testbeds.

3. QoS constrained Clouds of sensors over WLNs: Do they scale?  Wireless multihop networks, including mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks.  Locally distributed sensor networks towards a global CoS.  Protocol design, including cross-layer and opportunistic approaches.

4. Resource management in M2M communications.  Resource management functionalities (CAC, reservation, scheduling, etc.)  Cognitive radios and dynamic spectrum assignments.  Performance evaluation, including analytical and simulation approaches.

Important Dates Paper Submission May 12th, 2013 Notification of acceptance June 30th, 2013 Camera-ready copy due July 30th, 2013

Submission Guidelines We seek original contributions that have neither been previously published or currently under review. Authors can submit in any of the aforementioned special sessions a full paper (up to 8 pages) that describes complete works in a self-contained manner with the intent to give an oral presentation. All accepted submissions will be published in the LCN’13 proceedings and the ieeeXplore portal. Submission details can be found at http://www.cs.queensu.ca/wln13 . _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc