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6th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access

Protocols (MobiWac 2008)

(to be held in conjunction with the 11-th ACM/IEEE International Symposium

on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) (MSWiM

2008), October 27-31, 2008).

Web page: http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~mobiwachttp://www.it.usyd.edu.au/%7Emobiwac

Paper submission deadline: June 6, 2007

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The 6th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless

Access Protocols (MobiWac 2008) is intended to provide an international

forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results

and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues

and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols.

Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of

significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with

an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols

Wireless/Mobile Web Access

Wireless Internet and All-IP integration

Next Generation Wireless systems

Mobile Broadband Wireless Access

Pervasive Communication and Computing

Ubiquitous and mobile access

Wireless Applications and testbeds

Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff

Multi-Channel Multi-Radio management

Channels and resources allocation

Energy and power management

Context-aware services and applications

Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures

Interactive applications

Mobile commerce technologies

Mobile database management

Wireless Multimedia Protocols

Mobile and Wireless Entertainment

Mobile Info-services

QoS management

Mobility Control and Management

Localization and tracking

Mobile/Vehicular environment access

Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

Security, Trust management and Privacy issues

Fault Tolerance solutions

Wireless Systems' Design

Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems

Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis

Technical Program Committee

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General Chair

Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA

Program Chair

Bjorn Landfeldt, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Program Committee

Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University (USA) Luciano Bononi, Universitty of Bologna, (Italy) Anna Brunstrom, Karlstad University, (Sweden) Jonathan Chan, CSIRO, (Australia) Han-Chieh Chao, National Ilan University (Taiwan) Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Computer Technology Institute, (Greece) Claude Chaudet, ENST, (France) Naveen Chilamkurti, Latrobe University (Australia) Hesham Elsayed, United Arab Emirate University, (United Arab Emirates) Scott Fowler, Aston University, (UK) Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, (Canada) Arshad Jhumka, University of Warwick, (UK) Kyandoghere Kyamakya, Alpen Adria University Klagenfurt, (Austria) Peter Langerdoerfer, IHP Microelectronics, (Germany) Leszek Lilien, Western Michigan University, (USA) Justin Lipman, Intel Corporation, (China) Luis Loyola, DoCoMo Communications Laboratory, (Germany) Kami Makki, University of Toledo, (USA) Abdelhamid Mellouk, University Paris XII (France) Paulo Mendes, INESC Porto, (Portugal) Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, (France) Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, (Greece) Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, (Australia) Christian Schindelhauer, University of Freiburg, (Germany) Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, (Canada) Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras, (Greece) Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, (Greece) Zainab Zaidi, NICTA, (Australia) Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, (USA)

Important Dates

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All papers must be submitted electronically via the EDAS system (http://edas.info/).http://mail.landfeldt.com/webmail/%28http://edas.info/%29.

Paper registration deadline: June 3, 2008

Paper upload deadline for registered papers: June 6, 2008

Acceptance notification: July 18, 2008

Camera-ready version due: August 8, 2008

Workshop: October 27-31, 2008

Paper Submission Guidelines

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High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and

must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed

by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field

to ensure high quality and relevance to the workshop.

Paper length should be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style

including tables and figures. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted.

Accepted papers will appear in the Workshop proceedings published by ACM

press. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend the

conference to present its paper.

Each submission must be accompanied by the following information:

A paper title

A short abstract

A complete list of authors and their affiliations

A contact person for correspondence (please check that the correct e-mail is

configured on EDAS system)

MobiWac 2008 electronic submission is now active on the EDAS system.

For any question or problem related to MobiWac 2008 submission, please

contact bjornl@it.usyd.edu.au with e-mail Subject: MobiWac 2008 submission

problem.