Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *************************************************** * * * WiOpt '04 * * * * 2nd Workshop on Modeling and Optimization * * in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks * * * * March 24 - 26, 2004, Cambridge, UK * * * *************************************************** Workshop Website: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/wiopt04/ This workshop is intended to bring together leading researchers from both academia and industry to present both foundations and practical methods and tools for modeling and optimisation of mobile and ad hoc networks. The workshop will bring together researchers studying optimisation issues of mobile networks from both the network performance and the mobile networking perspectives: * Mobile Network Optimisation: Applications and Algorithms * Performance characterisation and optimisation of mobile/wireless networks and systems * Protocol design (MAC, Routing) for optimal mobile network utilisation * Tools for network optimisation * Energy efficiency in mobile networks * Security and co-operation models for mobile networks * Pricing and incentives in mobile and ad hoc networks. The program committee has compiled an excellent program of 43 presentations, selected from over 180 submissions. You can find the program at the end of this call or at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/wiopt04/program.html. IMPORTANT DATES: Early registration deadline - 1 March 2004 Late registration deadline - 12 March 2004 Workshop - 24 - 26 March 2004 LOCATION: The workshop will take place in Cambridge, United Kindom at New Hall College. Accommodation is available within the college and in hotels in Cambridge. The website has more information under http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/wiopt04/venue.html. REGISTRATION: To register, please download the registration form from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/wiopt04/regis.html, fill it out and mail or fax it to the address shown on the webpage. Registration fee is £ 180 for early registration before March 1st, £ 225 for late registration before March 12. Space is limited, so please register soon! A limited number for student travel grants is available. Details can be found on the registration web page. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: The program consists of 11 regular sessions, two plenary sessions and a poster session. Plenary Speakers: Bruce Hajek (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Regular Papers: Session 1: QoS Optimal Scheduling for Multimedia Traffic in a Wireless LAN Munish Goyal, Anurag Kumar, and Vinod Sharma An Efficient Scheduling Scheme for IEEE 802.11e Pierre Ansel, Qiang Ni, and Thierry Turletti Interference Control at Packet-level in Wireless Networks with Quality of Service Support Sami Ayyorgun and Rene L. Cruz Utility Based Data Service Differentiation for CDMA Data Networks Haitao Lin, Mainak Chatterjee, Sajal K. Das, and Kalyan Basu Session 2: Energy Management Minimum-Energy Broadcasting in Wireless Networks Using a Single Broadcast Tree Ioannis Papadimitriou and Leonidas Georgiadis Exact Solution of the Minimum Energy Broadcasting Problem in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks by Integer Programming Kemal Altinkemer, F. Sibel Salman, and Prashant Bellur Complexity of Minimum Spanning Tree in Evolving Graphs and the Minimum-Energy Broadcast Routing Problem Afonso Ferreira and Aubin Jarry Bounds on the Energy Consumption of Routings in Wireless Sensor Networks Juan Alonso, Adam Dunkels, and Thiemo Voigt Session 3: Cellular Networks Transport Level Optimisations for Streaming Media Over Wide-area Wireless Networks Julian Chesterfield, Rajiv Chakravorty, Suman Banerjee, Pablo Rodriguez, and Ian Pratt Cell Reselection Interarrival Time Investigation for GPRS Roger Kalden and Bart Sanders Minimum Cost Paging for Multi-System Wireless Networks Abhishek Roy, Archan Misra, and Sajal K. Das Integer Programming Methods for UMTS Radio Network Planning Andreas Eisenblaetter, Atesio Armin Fuegenschuh, Hans-Florian Geerdes, Daniel Junglas, Thorsten Koch, and Alexander Martin Session 4: Ad-Hoc Networks I Enhancing SWAN QoS Model By Adopting Destination-Based Regulation (ESWAN) Yasser L. Morgan and Thomas Kunz QoS-Aware Segmented Backup Source Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Ajay Agarwal Connectivity in Ad-Hoc Networks: a Queueing Theoretical Approach Daniele Miorandi and Eitan Altman Study of Connectivity in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks with an Improved Radio Model R. Hekmat and P. Van Mieghem CDMA & Multicarrier Systems Throughput Optimization of Dynamic OFDM-FDMA Systems with Inband Signaling James Gross, Holger Karl, and Adam Wolisz Pilot Power Optimization in WCDMA Networks Iana Siomina and Di Yuan 3G-WCDMA Downlink Capacity Analysis and Optimisation with Multi-Carrier Deployment Ridha Nasri and Mongi Marzoug Joint Scheduling and Resource Allocation in CDMA Systems Rajeev Agrawal, Vijay Subramanian, and Randall Berry Session 6: Sensor Networks Exploiting Mobility for Energy Efficient Data Collection in Sensor Networks Sushant Jain, Rahul Shah, Waylon Brunette, Gaetano Borriello, and Sumit Roy Distributed Self-Tuning of Sensor Networks Aditya Karnik, Anurag Kumar, and Vivek Borkar Decentralized Utility-based Sensor Network Design Narayanan Sadagopan and Bhaskar Krishnamachari Network Devolution and the Growth of Sensory Lacunae in Sensor Networks Srisankar S. Kunniyur and Santosh S. Venkatesh Infrastructure WLANs Asymptotics for Provisioning Problems of Peering Wireless LANs with a Large Number of Participants Costas Courcoubetis and Richard Weber Saving Energy in Wi-Fi Hotspots through 802.11 PSM: An Analytical Model G. Anastasi, M. Conti, E. Gregori, and A. Passarella Energy Efficient Scheduler Design in Wireless Networks Jeongjoon Lee, Catherine Rosenberg, and Edwin K. P. Chong Fuelling WiFi Deployment : A Reputation-based Solution Naouel Ben Salem, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, and Markus Jakobsson Session 8: Performance Optimization Optimal Power Control over Multiple Time-Scale Fading Channels with Service Outage Constraints Subhrakanti Dey and Jamie Evans Wireless Link Scheduling with Power Control Steven A. Borbash and Anthony Ephremides An Energy-Optimal Algorithm for Neighbor Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks Ritesh Madan, Sanjay Lall On-line Optimal Wireless Multicast Prasanna Chaporkar and Saswati Sarkar Session 9: Game-Theoretic Models A Game-Theoretic Look at Simple Relay Channel Yalin Evren Sagduyu and Anthony Ephremides Random Access in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks as a Distributed Game Vivek S. Borkar and Arzad A. Kherani Self-Optimisation of Sensor Networks as a Game Aditya Karnik and Anurag Kumar Auction-based Spectrum Sharing Jianwei Huang, Randall Berry and Michael L. Honig Session 10: Performance Modeling Model-based Loss Inference by TCP over Heterogeneous Networks Dhiman Barman and Ibrahim Matta Asymptotic Analysis of a Peer Enhanced Cache Invalidation Scheme Julee Pandya, Prasant Mohapatra, and Dipak Ghosal A Modeling Framework for Computing Lifetime and Information Capacity in Wireless Sensor Networks Enrique J. Duarte-Melo, Mingyan Liu, and Archan Misra Analysis of an Effective Priority Scheme to Support QoS Provisioning for Multicasting in Mobile Wireless Networks Koji Miyazaki and Wuyi Yue Session 11: Ad-Hoc Networks II On Achievable Delay/Capacity Trade-offs in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Gaurav Sharma and Ravi R. Mazumdar Relaying in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks R. Groenevelt, E. Altman, and P. Nain Analysis of Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms for Bluetooth Wireless Personal Area Networks Randeep Bhatia, Adrian Segall, and Gil Zussman ORGANIZATION: General chairman: Imrich Chlamtac Vice General Chair: Roger Whitaker Program Co-Chairs: Marco Conti and Tamer Basar Program committee of the conference: Eitan Altman, Venkat Anantharam, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Andrew Campbell, X. Cao, A. Chockalingam, Jon Crowcroft, Anthony Ephremides, Silvia Giordano, Stephen V. Hanly, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Holger Karl, Peter Key, P. R. Kumar, Peter Marbach, Derek Mcauley, Archan Misra, Philippe Nain, Sven Oestring, Yoshikuni Onozato, Ariel Orda, Ramesh Rao, Catherine Rosenberg, Ness Shroff, Violet Syrotiuk, Thierry Turletti, Adam Wolisz, Jeff Wieselthier, Moshe Zukerman Local Arrangements Co-Chair: Sven Oestring, Julian Chesterfield and Rajiv Chakravorty Treasurer: Meng How Lim Publicity Chair: Holger Karl The workshop is co-sponsored by * Univ. of Cambridge * IIT (Istituto di Informatica e Telematica) * IEEE IT Society (technical co-sponsorship) * INRIA * Euro NGI * CREATE-NET Additional financial support is provided by: * Intel * Microsoft Research