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First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks

(WiMAN'07)

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 16, 2007

in conjunction with ICCCN 2007.

http://www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/WiMAN2007/index.htm

Submission Deadline: March 23, 2007

Distinguished papers will be invited to extend to full version for

a special issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal (ComCom).

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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:

Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking

Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN

Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking

MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond)

Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols

Implications of smart antennas on MAC and routing protocols

Quality of Services provisioning

Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks

Network deployment, localization, and synchronization

Topology construction and maintenance

Methods and tools for mesh and ad hoc networks simulation

Modeling and performance evaluations

Physical layer techniques

Cross layer optimizations

Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms

Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures

Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks

Security-related issues in mesh and ad hoc networks

Testbed, prototype, and practical systems

Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks

Wireless sensor networks and RFID

Important Dates

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Paper submission due: March 23, 2007

Acceptance notification: May 11, 2007

Camera-ready due: June 1, 2007

Workshop: August 16, 2007

Submissions and Publications

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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

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.

Organizing Committees

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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

Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy

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

David Surma, Indiana University South Bend, USA

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

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