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WORKSHOP ON CHALLENGES OF MOBILITY
http://www.wcc2004.org/congress/workshops/challenges.htm
IFIPWorldComputerCongress
August, 22-27, 2004
http://www.wcc2004.org/
CALL FOR PAPERS
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Scope
Mobility will inevitably be one of the main
characteristics of future networks, terminals and applications and, thus,
extending and integrating fixed network protocols and services to mobile
systems represents one of the main issues of present networking.
The workshop will focus on the challenges of mobility,
that is, on technologies, protocols and services for the support of seamless
and nomadic user access to new classes of applications in person-to-person,
device-to-device and device-to-person environments.
The workshop is intended to constitute an
international forum for presentation and discussion of the challenges in the
areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking, at the link layer
and above. In order to provide a basis for lively discussion and active
participation from all attendees, submissions reporting exciting on-going work
are favoured.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Seamless mobility
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Mobile ad hoc and sensor networks
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Analysis, simulation and measurements of mobile and wireless systems
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Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks
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QoS in mobile and wireless networks
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Future trends and issues concerning mobility
Paper submission
Authors are invited to submit full papers, with a
limit of 12 double-spaced A4 pages and font size no smaller than 11 points, in
PDF or PostScript formats, presenting new research related to the theory or
practice of mobile computing and networking. Submissions must describe
original research, not published or currently under review for another
workshop, conference or journal. Papers describing challenging, stimulating
ideas are especially welcome.
Submitted papers will be judged based on their quality
through double-blind reviewing, where the identities of the authors are
withheld from the reviewers. Authors' names must not appear in the paper
or in the PDF or PostScript file. All papers will be reviewed by the program
committee members. Accepted papers will be published in post-workshop
proceedings by Kluwer Academic Publishers.
An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is
mandatory. Submissions must be made using the Webchairing conference management
system at the following URL: http://www.webchairing.com/wcm/
. Please check the WCC2004 web pages for further instructions (such as
registration and/or organization) or contact wcm2004@dei.uc.pt
for additional information.
Important dates
Deadline for submissions – March 31, 2004
Notification of acceptance – May 10, 2004
Camera ready versions – June 10, 2004
General information
The workshop will be a single track, full-day event,
on August 27, 2004, with a number of participants in the range of 40-60. The
workshop will open with a keynote speech from an internationally recognized
personality in the wireless and mobility arena. This will be followed by the
presentation of 10 regular papers and a closing panel on the Challenges of
Mobility. Based on the ideas presented and discussed during the day, the panel
will address, analyse, discuss and sum up controversial, innovative and/or open
issues in the area, with the aim of opening up avenues for future research. The
members of the panel will be selected among program committee members and
presenters.
Program Co-chairs
Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Program committee
Alexandre Santos,
Bengt Ahlgren, SICS,
Christian Prehofer, NTT
David Hutchison,
David Larrabeiti, UC3M,
Dorgham Sisalem,
Erdal Cayirci, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Eylem Ekici,
Giorgio Ventre,
Joao Orvalho, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
Joe Finney,
Jordi Domingo-Pascual, UPC, Spain
Jorge S. Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Madjid Merabti,
Pascal Berthou,
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute
Roberto Canonico,
Rui Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Rui Rocha, IST,
Stephan Olariu,
Thomas Plageman,
Torsten Braun,
Vera Goebel,
Wenye Wang,
Yevgeni Koucheryavy,
Workshop organisation
Pascal Berthou,
Joao Orvalho, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal