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-------------------------------------------------------------- WLN 2008 8th IEEE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON WIRELESS LOCAL NETWORKS (in conjunction with IEEE LCN 2008) Montreal, Canada 14-17 October 2008 Web: http://www2.lifl.fr/WLN2008/

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 8th International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN 2008) will be a one-day workshop, held in conjunction with the 33rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN). The workshop will bring together networking researchers, engineers, and practitioners with participants from industry, academia, and government.

The workshop will be a full-day event. (Please also visit http://www.ieeelcn.org)

Topics of Interest

We are interested in visionary, experimental, systems-related and work in-progress papers in the area of local and personal wireless, mobile, ad hoc, wireless mesh, sensor and home networking. Within these board areas, the topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Medium access control techniques * Routing protocols and algorithms * Transport protocols * Cross layer design * Energy efficiency in protocol and systems design * User mobility and workloads modeling * Location dependent/personalized applications * Resource allocation and scheduling algorithms * Cognitive radio networks * Wireless network platforms * Wireless mesh networks * Multiple wireless protocol coexistence issues * Heterogeneous wireless networks * Self-configuration for ad hoc or sensor networks * Performance analysis of wireless networks * Quality of Service issues in wireless networks * Multimedia delivery in wireless networks * Topology control protocols and algorithms

Submission Information

Papers should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal. We solicit

* Full papers for presenting fairly complete work. Limited to 8 camera-ready pages. Accepted papers will be presented orally. * Short papers for presenting work-in-progress. Limited to 2 camera-ready pages. Accepted papers will be presented as posters. * Demonstration for showcasing practical implementation, industrial and commercial development in the general scope of the Workshop. Submit a demonstration proposal (for up to 2 camera-ready pages) for review.

Papers can be submitted via EDAS (http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6413&).

Workshop and Program Chairs

Farid Naït-Abdesselam, University of Sciences & Technologies of Lille, France. Walaa Hamouda, Concordia University, Canada.

Standing Committee

Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada. Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada. Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada. Matthias Frank, University of Bonn, Germany.

Technical Program Committee:

Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York, USA. Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA. Tarek Bejaoui, University of Carthage, Tunisia. Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy. Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada. Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA. Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia. Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA. Huaqun Guo, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore. Essia Hamouda Elhafsi, University of California Riverside, USA. Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia. Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia. Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. Bjorn Landfeldt, University of Sydney, Australia. Justin Lipman, Intel Shanghai, China. Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Jogesh K. Muppala, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. Nidal Nasser, University of Guelph, Canada. Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada. Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA. Pedro M. Ruiz Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain. Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Hong Linh Truong, IBM Zurich Research Labs, Switzerland. Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece. Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA. Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada. Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada. Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA. Quig-An Zeng, University of Cincinnati, USA. Jingyuan Zhang, University of Alabama, USA. Zonghua Zhang, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan.

Important Dates

Paper registration deadline: Extended to May 10, 2008 Paper submission deadline: Extended to May 17, 2008 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2008 Camera-ready paper due: July 28, 2008 Author registration by: July 28, 2008

--- Farid Naït-Abdesselam http://www.lifl.fr/~nait

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