-- Frank Paehlke Institut fuer Telematik Phone: +49 721 608-6398 Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH) Fax: +49 721 388097 D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany EMail: paehlke@tm.uka.de Our appologies if this is a duplicate ********************************************************************** Call for Papers Minitrack on Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Part of the Software Track at the Thirty-seventh Annual Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS37), Big Island of Hawaii, January 5-8, 2004 http://crystal.uta.edu/~zaruba/hicss37/ Optional but encouraged abstract submission deadline: March 31, 2003 Submission deadline: June 1, 2003 ********************************************************************** Overview: Wireless personal area networks (WPANs) are short to very short-range wireless networks that can be used to exchange information between devices in the reach of a person. WPANs can be used to replace cables between computers and their peripherals, to establish communities helping people do their everyday chores making them more productive, or to establish location aware services. It is predicted that not only will most PDAs, phones, laptops include WPAN technology but that the number of small WPAN enabled devices (e.g., pens, cameras, headsets, various sensors) will soon outnumber the computers on the Internet. The best example representing WPANs is the recent industry standard: Bluetooth, other examples include Spike (for real time gaming - proprietary technology), and in the broad sense HomeRF. The IEEE 802 committee has also realized the importance of short-range wireless networking and initiated the establishment of the IEEE 802.15 working group to standardize protocols and interfaces for wireless personal area networking. Another key issue is the inter-working of wireless technologies to create heterogeneous wireless networks. For instance, WPANs and WLANs will enable an extension of the third generation (3G) cellular networks (i.e., UMTS and cdma2000) into devices without direct cellular access thus pointing towards next generation wireless networking. Moreover, devices interconnected in a WPAN may be able to utilize a combination of 3G access and WLAN access by selecting the access that is best for the moment. In such networks 3G, WLAN and WPAN technologies do not compete against each other but enable the user to select the best connectivity for his/her purposes. Today, WPAN research covers a very broad area, starting from technical issues like automatic formation of networks or security issues and going up all the stack to the question what kind of applications will be used in WPANs. We expect that the availability of a cheap short-range wireless technology will further fuel research and development in what, where and most importantly how WPAN technologies could be used for. Minitrack chairs: Frank Kargl, University of Ulm, Germany (frank.kargl@informatik.uni-ulm.edu) Dr. Elaine Lawrence, University of Technology, Sydney (elaine@it.uts.edu.au) Prof. Gergely V. Záruba, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA (zaruba@uta.edu) Important Deadlines: March 31, 2003 Abstracts submitted for guidance and indication of appropriate content. June 1, 2003 Full papers submitted to Minitrack Chairs through the Minitrack's Website. August 31, 2003 Notice of accepted papers sent to Authors. October 1, 2003 Accepted manuscripts sent electronically to the publisher. Authors must be registered for the conference by this date. Submission Guidelines: Abstracts need to be submitted via email to Gergely Zaruba at: zaruba@uta.edu in pdf format only. For full paper submission instructions please read and follow the online submission instructions at the minitrack's web-site: http://crystal.uta.edu/~zaruba/hicss37/ (The final paper must be no longer than 10 pages, double-column, single spaced.) Scope: The minitrack will concentrate on completed or ongoing research in the area of wireless local area networking and wireless personal area networking (excluding manufacturing). Areas of interest include but are not limited to research in: - Protocols tailored to WPANs - QoS provisioning in WPANs - WPAN applications - Performance evaluation - TCP performance of WPANs - Bluetooth for ad hoc networks (scatternets) - Bluetooth performance evaluation - Routing in Bluetooth scatternets - Security issues of WPANs - IP over Bluetooth - Mobility management and seamless integration of WPANs - Interoperability, interference and co-existence of WPANs, WLANs and 3G networks - WPANs vs. WLANs - Caching in WPANs - Service discovery in WPANs - Integration and heterogeneous wireless infrastructures employing WPANs - WPAN specific applications