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2nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'06)
13-15 Dec 2006, Hong Kong, China
Organized and supported by Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Following the success of the first conference MSNĄŻ05, held in Wuhan, China, MSNĄŻ06 provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange research results and share development experiences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks:
- Network architecture and protocols
- Software platforms and development tools
- Self-organization and synchronization
- Routing and data dissemination
- Failure resilience and fault isolation
- Energy management
- Data, information, and signal processing
- Security and privacy
- Network planning, provisioning, and deployment
- Network modeling and performance evaluation
- Developments and applications
- Integration with other systems
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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MSN invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the correspondingauthor, and must not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures, with PDF, PostScript, or MSWord format. Electronic
submission through the submission website is strongly encouraged. Hard copies will be accepted only if electronic submission is not possible. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted,at least one ofthe authors will register and
attend the conference to present the work.
Questions concerning hardcopy submissions or any other issues may be directed to the Program Chair at
msn06@comp.polyu.edu.hk.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Important Dates:
Submission deadline: Extended to 23 June, 2006
Notification of acceptance: 20 Aug, 2006
Final Manuscript due: 5 Sept, 2006
Conference: 13 - 15 Dec. 2006
PUBLICATION
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The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pending) and distributed at the conference. Selected papers of best quality will be published in a special issue at journal special issues.
BEST PAPER AWARDS
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The program committee will select one winner for the Best Paper Award
(all regular papers are eligible) and one winner for the Best Student
Paper Award (only the regular papers whose firstauthor is a full-time
student are eligible). Each winner will be presented at the conferencewith
a certificate and US$100.
KEYNOTE SPEECHES:
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MSN'06 will feature three keynote speeches. Speakers and topics will soon be announced.
ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEES
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Advisory Committees
Keith K.C. Chan, H.K. Polytechnic Univ., H.K.
Marco Conti, IIT, CNR, Italy
Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Lionel Ni, H.K. Univ. of Sci. & Tech., H.K.
Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic Univ., USA
General Co-Chairs
Sajal K. Das, Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA
Xiaohua Jia, HK CityU
Program Co-Chairs
Jiannong Cao, HK PolyU
Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Program Vice Co-Chairs
- Physical layer, power, and other architecture issues
Amiya Nayak, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
- Data link layer and MAC protocols
Vojislav B. Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Routing and broadcasting
Pedro M. Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain
- Deployment, topology control, clustering,
Paolo Santi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR, Italy
- Transport layer, session layer protocols
Soung-Chang Liew, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Data centric, tracking, and positioning protocols in sensor networks
Eric Fleury, INRIA, France
- Query processing, Middleware
Jingyuan(Alex) Zhang, University of Alabama, USA
- Security, privacy, and reliability
Zhen Jiang, West Chester University, USA
- Systems and applications
Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, H.K.
Progrma Committee
Please see MSNĄŻ06 Website for the list of program committee members
Publicity Co-Chairs
Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. H.K.
Isabelle Simplot-Ryl, Univ. Lille 1, France
Yu Wang, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Local Organization Chair
Allan Wong, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ. H.K.
Publication Chair
Jianliang Xu, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., H.K.
Awards Co-Chairs
Stephen Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA
Symeon Papavasileiou, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece
Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki Univ., Japan
Webmaster
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For more information, please contact:
Prof. Jiannong Cao
Deartment of Computing
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic
School of Information Technology and Engineering
Univ. of Ottawa, Canada