-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Internet Compatible QoS in Ad hoc Wireless Networks (ICQAWN) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:56:15 -0400 From: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha taha@ece.queensu.ca Reply-To: Abd-Elhamid M. Taha taha@ece.queensu.ca To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

Workshop

"Internet Compatible QoS in Ad hoc Wireless Networks" IC-QAWN

http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~trl/ICQAWN

in Conjunction with

The 3rd ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications - January 2005 AICCSA-05

http://engr.smu.edu/cse/AICCSA-05/

January 3-6, 2005, Cairo, Egypt

As everyday the realization of 4th generation wireless networks becomes more conceivable at various levels, questions arise as to how various wireless heterogeneities might be overcome. For different access technologies, the Internet has been taken as the unifying framework for interconnectivity and inherent mobility and resource management functionalities. Recently, serious attention has been given extending and utilizing Internet connectivity and QoS for ad hoc networks. Naturally, paradigm QoS techniques (IntServ & RSVP, DiffServ, MPLS) cannot be readily applied to ad hoc networks. Hence the need for QoS techniques compatible with traditional Internet QoS while maintaining realistic considerations for the characterstics of ad hoc networks.

Call for Papers

Scope

In a wireless ad hoc network hosts are brought together to form a network on the fly. Inherently, there is a lack for QoS-aware protocols. Currently, two operational quality of service (QoS) models are proposed for the Internet: Integrated Services (IntServ) aided with Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), and Differentiated Services (DiffServ). The IntServ model aims to guarantee the QoS in a manner of end-to-end fine granularity, but its scalability is impaired by the need to maintain per-flow state at each core router. The DiffServ model attempts to resolve the scalability problem by replacing the per-flow service with an aggregate-class, per hop service, while pushing the per- flow state management to edge routers . Extending such QoS paradigms to wireless ad hoc networks is an important step towards achieving all-IP networking. A major challenge facing the extension of Internet QoS models over ad hoc networks is the very characteristic of such networks: a) Variable topology, resulting from nodal mobility in addition to the unreliable link properties caused by frequent packet collisions and signal interference and fading; b) Limited battery power and c) Device heterogeneity, in terms of platform, processing, mobility and battery power.

We seek papers addressing Intserv and DiffServ compatible QoS in wireless ad hoc networks. Papers should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal.

Topics of Intrest

Include, but are not limited to: QoS admission control Adaptive QoS Bandwidth reservation schemes RSVP extensions to ad hoc networks Queue management and scheduling algorithms Extensions to DiffServ Per hop behavior Wireless MPLS Resource adaptation and system optimization for multimedia services Dynamic bandwidth management QoS-aware medium access protocols IEEE 802.11 QoS extensions Power-aware techniques and protocols Cross-layer designs TCP extensions Mobility management Delay and jitter management Congestion and flow control Performance evaluation Implementation and test-bed experiments

Important Dates

Paper submission: July 26, 2004 Author notification: Sept 10, 2004 Final manuscript due: September 30, 2004

Program Co-Chairs

Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, hossam@cs.queensu.ca) Ahmed Kamal (Iowa Statue University, kamal@iastate.edu)

Technical Program Committee

Mokhtar Aboelaze (York University) Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa) Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo) Luciano Bononi(University of Bologna) Torsten Braun (University of Bern) Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines) Jorge Cobb (The University of Texas at Dallas) Ehab Elmallah (University of Alberta) Khaled Elsayed (Cairo University) Mohamed Eltoweissy (Virginia Tech) Matthias Frank (University of Bonn) Muhammad Jaseemuddin (Ryerson University) Salil Kanhere (University of New South Wales) Jelena Misic (University of Manitoba) Asis Nasipuri (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Nidal Nasser (Queen's University) Ioanis Nikolaidis (University of Alberta) Golden G. Richard III (University of New Orleans) Tarek Saadawi (City University of New York) Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa) Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto) Kui Wu (University of Victoria) Chi-Hsiang Yeh (Queen's University) Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County) Moustafa Youssef (University of Maryland) Albert Zomaya (The University of Sydney)

Registration, Accomodations and Local Information

For information on registration, nearby hotel and accomodations and other local information, e.g. tourist attractions, please refer to the main conference's website, http://engr.smu.edu/cse/AICCSA-05/.

Inquiries

For further information regarding the workshop, please send all your inquiries to icqawn_inq@cs.queensu.ca.

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