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CALL FOR PAPERS

NG-WANETs 2009

First International Workshop on Next Generation Wireless Ad hoc Networks

12-14.10.2009, St. Petersburg, Russia

http://ng-wanet09.informatik.uni-rostock.de/

co-located with International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications (ICUMT)

http://www.icumt.org/

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SCOPE / CALL FOR PAPERS:

The wireless ad hoc networks (WANETs) comprise several types of networks such as mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), mesh networks, sensor networks, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) and multi-hop cellular networks (MCNs). WANETs are based on the point-to-point networking concept, in which each node acts as wireless relay/router along the path between source and destination. This provides an essentially effective networking medium in infrastructure-less environments such as rural and desert areas.

The nature of WANETs leads to several advantages in comparison with that of wireless cellular technologies. The relatively low cost and complexity of installation in infrastructure-less areas, the autonomous nodes, the self- healing and configuration capabilities, and several other properties enable WANETs for networking the most kinds of environment. Nevertheless, this nature also causes several technical issues and challenges for adopting WANETs in certain environments and/or for certain applications. The resources constrains due to channel sharing, the performance of current routing protocols and QoS mechanisms, the distributed coordination of network access, and many other issues and challenges represent essential topics for future enhancement of the current ad hoc technologies.

Thus, beside the optimization of current WANET solutions the development of efficient solutions for those mentioned problems represents the main challenge for the Next Generation WANETs (NG-WANETs). In addition, using WANET based communication technologies in other fields such as for deep space communication networks could open new perspectives for accelerating the development and adoption of those technologies. Furthermore, bionic- inspired mechanisms and solutions can constructively help researchers to benefit from the nature experience to improve the current solutions and to develop new methods and concepts for solving critical technical problems. Consequently, new research fields could emerge which open new dimensions and creates new perspectives of WANETs for future applications and services.

This workshop represents the first step to figure out these dimensions and perspectives of NG-WANETs and aims at providing a space for debate and knowledge sharing among researchers working on state-of-the-art solutions to the current issues and challenges of WANETs. All researchers and practitioners are invited to participate in the debate and knowledge sharing about the current WANETs and how the NG-WANETs are going to be in the near and far future. We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions concerning various aspects of current and future WANETs.

TOPICS of INTEREST:

You are invited to submit original technical papers covering, but not limited to, the following topics:

(a) WANETs technologies: physical and MAC layer • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) • Wireless Mesh Networks: WiMAX mesh networks, WLAN mesh networks and IEEE 802.11s, wireless sensor networks and IEEE 802.15.4 • Wireless multi-hop relaying networks: Multi-hop cellular networks (MCNs), heterogeneous MCNs, and mesh technology in LTE • Future-oriented WANETs: WANET-based technologies, e.g. as basis for inter-planetary as well as deep-space communication networks

(b) WANETs architecture and network design • Network architecture and planning • Mesh backbone networks: design and planning • WANET deployment: issues and challenges • Resource management solutions • Application and service-oriented WANETs architectures • Bionic-inspired WANETs Solutions, e.g. Ant routing algorithms and protocols

(c) WANETs performance and mobility management • Forwarding mechanisms • Routing algorithms and protocols • QoS provisioning and management • QoS mechanisms and protocols • Load observation and control mechanisms • Load balancing concepts and mechanism • MAC and IP layer solutions • Transport protocols for WANETs • Mobile hosts mobility management • Privacy, security and trust management

(d) WANETs applications and services • Real-time applications and services • Multimedia services

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission due: July 05, 2009 (extended) Notification of acceptance: August 03, 2009 Camera-ready version due: August 17, 2009

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research, previously unpublished and not currently under review by another conference or journal. Papers MUST be submitted electronically using EDAS platform (http://edas.info/N7721). Papers MUST be submitted in PDF format.

Papers should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 10 printed pages (A4 format) including figures, tables, references and appendixes. Papers that are longer than 10 pages will not be reviewed. For your submission you can use the standard IEEE templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats found at http://www.ieee.org/go/conferencepublishing/templates.

All submitted papers will be reviewed based on the correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. Each paper will be evaluated by at least two reviewers.

PROCEEDINGS:

All accepted papers will be included in the ICUMT 2009 main conference proceedings, published by IEEE Xplore.

Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue.

GENERAL CHAIR:

Robil Daher, University of Rostock, Germany

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