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The First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks
(WiMAN 2007) http://www.cs.iusb.edu/%7Eliqzhang/WiMAN2007/index.htm
in conjunction with ICCCN 2007
Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA August 16, 2007
* General Information
The First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2007) will be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2007), in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. All papers presented in WiMAN 2007 will be published in the workshop proceeding by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library, or Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Distinguished papers will be invited to extend to full version for a special issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal (ComCom) on Wireless Mesh Networks.
* Scope and Topics
Recently, wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade's research effort in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks.
This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. The main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless networks. It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We plan to seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the physical layer.
Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following:
a.. Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking b.. Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN c.. Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking d.. MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) e.. Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols f.. Implications of smart antennas on MAC and routing protocols g.. Quality of Services provisioning h.. Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks i.. Network deployment, localization, and synchronization j.. Topology construction and maintenance k.. Methods and tools for mesh and ad hoc networks simulation l.. Modeling and performance evaluations m.. Physical layer techniques n.. Cross layer optimizations o.. Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms p.. Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures q.. Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks r.. Security-related issues in mesh and ad hoc networks s.. Testbed, prototype, and practical systems t.. Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks u.. Wireless sensor networks and RFID
* Important Dates
Paper submission due: March 23, 2007
Acceptance notification: May 11, 2007
Camera-ready due: June 1, 2007
Workshop: August 16, 2007
* Submissions and Publications
Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review somewhere else, are solicited. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited up to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or postscript) by sending it as an e-mail attachment to Liqiang Zhang (liqzhang@cs.iusb.edu) or Dakai Zhu (dzhu@cs.utsa.edu). Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.
All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceeding by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library, or Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Distinguished papers will be invited to extend to full version for a special issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal (ComCom) on Wireless Mesh Networks. The special issue will be published in early 2008.
* Technical Program
To Be Announced
* Invited Speakers
To Be Announced
* Organizing Committees
Workshop Program Co-Chairs
Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA (liqzhang@cs.iusb.edu)
Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (dzhu@cs.utsa.edu)
Publicity Chair
Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada (j7luo@engmail.uwaterloo.ca)
Technical Program Committee
Malik Audeh, Tropos Networks, USA
Edoardo S. Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy
Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA
Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China
Christian Hartmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Anders Host-Madsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea
Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA
Hyunjeong hannah Lee, Intel Research, USA
Guoqing Li, Intel Research, USA
Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong
Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada
Frank Reichenbach, University of Rostock, Germany
Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy
Kaoru Sezaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
Pavan Sikka, CSIRO, Australia
Ali Tosun, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong
Yuan Xue, Vanderbilt University, USA
Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan
Advisory Committee
Hossein Hakimzadeh, Indiana University South Bend, USA
Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA
Yingbo Hua, University of California Riverside, USA
Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA
Bahar Sadeghi, Intel Research, USA
Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, USA
Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA