-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CfP - Symposium on Cooperative Networks in WirelessCom 2005 Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:13:52 +0100 From: Antonella Molinaro molinaro@deis.unical.it To: multicomm@comsoc.org CC: Mischa Dohler michael.dohler@kcl.ac.uk, Andrej Stefanov stefanov@duke.poly.edu

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Dear Colleagues,

Antonella Molinaro, Mischa Dohler and Andrej Stefanov wish to invite you to submit high-quality papers to the Symposium on Cooperative Networks, part of WirlessCom 2005, to be hold in Hawaii from June 13-16 2005. For more details, please, consult the call-for-papers below or the website http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNethttp://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet.

Kind regards,

Antonella, Mischa, Andrej.

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Symposium on Cooperative Networks http://www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNetwww.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet

WirelessCom 2005 Sheraton Maui Resort, Kaanapali Beach, Maui Hawaii, USA, June 13-16 2005

Technical Sponsorship IEEE TCCC, TCPC, and SSCTC

Scope Cooperative Networks are gaining increasing interest from the wireless community as a means to allow mobile devices to communicate in networks composed of heterogeneous technologies. A special Working Group on Cooperative Networks (CoNets) has been established within the WWRF (Wireless World Research Forum) to undertake these issues.

Seamless Communication: Heterogeneity in CoNets refers to service support, user devices, network access, resource and mobility management, medium access control, baseband algorithms, radio technology, and so on. In this scenario, the main challenging goal is to allow a mobile user to seamlessly communicate throughout multiple heterogeneous networks (cellular, wireless and wired networks, including "moving" and "ad-hoc" networks), and to enjoy multiparty multimedia applications while on the move between different administrative domains.

Self-Organization & Cross-Layer Design: Certainly there are particular cooperation and coordination problems found in CoNets that significantly differ from those in more traditional domains. The future cooperative network is, in fact, expected to self-organize dynamically in an optimum manner in order to offer seamless services with agreed quality to users and devices irrespective of location and network connection. This implies careful optimization across the entire protocol stack. Ideally, cooperative connectivity shall be transparent to the various transport technologies used among nodes in the network.

New APIs: Relations between cooperative networks are expected to be established dynamically, always providing a securely protected environment to users. Mobile terminals should be able to discover candidates available networks, therefore new APIs should enable applications to detect available access networks and learn their characteristics, thus becoming aware of location, context, and QoS.

Cooperative Networking: Special kinds of wireless networks included in CoNets are the so-called "moving networks" (NEMO), consisting of one or more mobile routers with connected devices changing their point of attachment to other networks while physically moving or changing topology. New resource management schemes for cooperative heterogeneous wireless access networks are required.

Cooperative Access Control & PHY Technologies: Furthermore, recently, the idea of using a mobile station as a relay between a source and a destination node is making CoNets a new diversity enabler. Cooperating users transmit their own information towards the destination node as well as optimally processed relaying information from other users. In this way, CoNets also offer a viable fading countermeasure and a shadowing alleviation means. The increased traffic requires entirely novel mechanisms at the MAC, as well as new approaches to distributed coding and transceiver design.

Topics of Interest Original papers are invited in the area of interoperability between different wireless networks and fixed-wireless co-operation. Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas of Cooperative Networks:

Architectural Principles Multiple Service Support Network Control and Maintenance Mobility Management QoS Provisioning Security Naming & Addressing Moving Networks Ad-hoc Networking and Internetworking Technology Multihop Routing Multi-Access Capability Radio Access Technologies Resource Management Cooperative & Distributed Relaying Ambient Network Technologies Cognitive Networks User devices Cooperative Processing Cooperative Sensor Environments Self-Organizing Networks

Submission Guidelines All papers are limited to 6 pages and must be in standard IEEE double-column format. All submissions must be sent by email to the symposium co-chairs.

Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2005 Camera-Ready Papers: May 1, 2005

Co-Chairs Antonella Molinaro University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria - Italy mailto:antonella.molinaro@ing.unirc.itantonella.molinaro@ing.unirc.it

Mischa Dohler CTR, King's College London - UK mailto:michael.dohler@kcl.ac.ukmichael.dohler@kcl.ac.uk

Andrej Stefanov Polytechnic University, New York - USA mailto:stefanov@duke.poly.edustefanov@duke.poly.edu

Technical Program Committee Hamid Aghvami, UK Sergio Barbarossa, Italy Daniel Beimborn, Germany Aggelos Bletsas, USA Helmut Bolcskei, Switzerland Antonio Capone, Italy Carla Chiasserini, Italy Javier R. Fonollosa, Spain Vasilis Friderikos, UK Hesham El Gamal, USA Michael Gastpar, USA Monisha Ghosh, USA Georgios B. Giannakis, USA A. Roger Hammons Jr, USA Jadwiga Indulska, Australia Antonis Kalis, Greece Mos Kaveh, USA Hong-Yon Lach, France Geert Leus, Netherlands Yonghui Li, Australia Youjian Liu, USA Fabio Massacci, Italy Gianluca Mazzini, Italy Rohit Nabar, USA Ian Oppermann, Finland Ashutosh Sabharwal, USA Cem Saraydar, USA Ali H. Sayed, USA Anna Scaglione, USA Andreas Schieder, Germany Hans-Peter Schwefel, Denmark Sergio Servetto, USA Yantai Shu, China Rahim Tafazoli, UK Vahid Tarokh, USA Sirin Tekinay, USA Ozan Tonguz, USA Matthew Valenti, USA Mahesh Varanasi, USA Josep Vidal, Spain Branimir Vojcic, USA Tim Weitzel, Germany Hyunsoo Yoon, Korea