CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **************************
WiMesh 2006 Second IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (To be held in conjunction with SECON 2006)
Reston, Virginia, USA
Monday, 25th September, 2006
Wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest as a low-cost networking platform to support ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or a larger, community or metro- scale networking. Many universities, as well as industrial labs have on-going research projects on various aspects of mesh networking, including architectures, protocols, services and applications. Several startups are building mesh networking platforms and deploying services. WiMesh 2006 is a one-day forum for meeting, presenting and discussing core technical issues and current research problems in wireless mesh networking. It will follow up on the success of WiMesh 2005 and will be held in conjunction with the SECON 2006 conference. WiMesh features select publications and talks by leading researchers in the field. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Technical Program *****************
MONDAY, 25th of SEPTEMBER, 2006
7.30 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Session 1: Medium Access Control
1. RTSS/CTSS: Mitigation of Exposed Terminals in Static 802.11-Based Mesh Networks Kimaya Mittal and Elizabeth M. Belding (University of California, Santa Barbara)
2. Spatial Backoff Contention Resolution for Wireless Networks Xue Yang (Intel) and Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
3. Learning Contention Patterns and Adapting to Load/Topology Changes in a MAC Scheduling Algorithm Yung Yi, Gustavo de Veciana, and Sanjay Shakkottai (University of Texas at Austin)
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Refreshment Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Session 2: Routing and Channel Assignment
1. Dynamic Interference Adaptation for Wireless Mesh Networks Dheeraj Agrawal, Arunesh Mishra, Kevin Springborn, Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin at Madison), Samrat Ganguly (NEC Labs)
2. The Impact of IEEE 802.11 MAC Strategies on Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks Seongkwan Kim (Seoul National University), Sung-Ju Lee (HP Labs), and Sunghyun Choi (Seoul National University)
3. Simple Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks Eric Rozner, Jayesh Seshadri, Yogita Mehta, and Lili Qiu (University of Texas at Austin)
4. Interference Aware Routing in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks Anand Prabhu Subramanian (SUNY, Stony Brook), Milind M. Buddhikot, Scott Miller (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies)
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Session 3: Architecture
1. On Multi-Gateway Association in Wireless Mesh Networks Sriram Lakshmanan, Karthikeyan Sundaresan, and Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Tech)
2. A Cross-Layer Cross-Overlay Architecture for Proactive Adaptive Processing in Mesh Networks Dilip Krishnaswamy, Hsien-Po Shiang, John Vicente, W. Steven Conner, Sanjay Rungta, Winson Chan and Kai Miao (Intel Corp.)
3. Application layer relays for wireless 802.11 mesh networks Yong Huang, Weibo Gong, and Don Towsley (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Refreshment Break
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Session 4: Complexity & Optimization
1. Hybrid Sensor and Mesh Networks: Paradigms for Fair and Energy Efficient Communication Gaurav Sharma, Ravi Mazumdar, and Ness B. Shroff (Purdue University)
2. A Tractable Algorithm for Fair and Efficient Uplink Scheduling of Multi-hop WiMax Mesh Networks Min Cao, Vivek Raghunathan and P. R. Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
3. IRMA: Integrated Routing and MAC Scheduling in Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks Zhibin Wu, Sachin Ganu and Dipankar Raychaudhuri (Rutgers University)
5:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Concluding Remarks
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs *************** Samir R. Das, Stony Brook University. Thyaga Nandagopal, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------