Hi All

I sincerely apologize if you have received this multiple times. This is for the WILLOPAN WORKSHOP to be held on Jan. 8^th 2006, India.

With Regards
Sai and Sunghyun

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Call for Papers

WILLOPAN 2006
The First International Workshop on Wireless Personal and Local Area Networks
http://www.willopan.org/

In Conjunction with COMSWARE 2006

January 8th, 2006
New Delhi, India

Wireless local area networks (LANs) and personal area networks (PANs) are becoming more and more popular today. Applications for such networks include wireless extensions of wired networks (such as 802.11 family of networks), cable replacement and short-range communications (such as Bluetooth and UWB), packet radio networks, sensor networks (such as 802.15.4 ZigBee), and other wireless networks with fixed or variable topology. Performance of such networks is the major factor that determines their feasibility for the given set of application requirements. Performance has many different aspects, from physical and data link layers, and all of these are intimately related to topology, energy efficiency, management, user mobility, and security issues. The key goals of this improvement include Quality of Service (QoS) support mechanisms, efficient channel access mechanisms, and energy saving mechanisms, etc. The effort to improve the MAC layer is linked with many technical challenges including compatibility with legacy networks, complexity in implementation, and practical values in real market, etc. The need to address QoS support, MAC enhancement, and energy saving and provide timely, solid technical contributions in the MAC layer of these networks establishes the motivation behind this workshop. Original papers are invited on emerging architectures and technologies in the design of wireless local area networks (WLANs) and wireless personal area networks (WPANs) with emphasis on the use of such networks in diverse areas of applications such as supporting ubiquitous mobile Internet access, and the design of ad-hoc/mesh networks, and sensor networks. The workshop solicits high quality and previously unpublished work in the field. The main scope of the workshop is the MAC layer and above. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

"       Design and improvements of MAC protocols
"       Performance evaluation of different MAC protocols
"       Mobility and handoff
"       Scheduling and link adaptation
"       UWB wireless networks and related issues
"       Spectral and power management issues
"       Cross-layer approaches
"       Network measurement and management
"       Range estimation and location management (e.g., using UWB)

Workshop Co-Chairs: 
Sai Shankar N
Qualcomm Inc, USA
nsaishankar@qualcomm.com       Sunghyun Choi
Seoul National University, KOREA
schoi@snu.kr

Submission Guidelines
All papers are limited to 6 pages and must be in standard IEEE double-column format.  The papers should be e-mailed to the workshop co-chairs at both nsaishankar@qualcomm.com and schoi@snu.ac.kr. 

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: September 22, 2005 (extended)
Notification of Acceptance: October 7, 2005
Camera-Ready Papers: November 7, 2005

Technical Program Committee (TBC)
Santosh P Abraham              Qualcomm, USA
Milind Buddhikot               Lucent Bell Labs, USA
Chun Ting Chou                        Philips Research, USA
Javier del Prado               Philips Research, USA
Xingang Guo                    Intel Corp., USA
Jennifer Hou                          University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Kyunghun Jang          Samsung Institute of Advanced Technology, KOREA
Srinivas Kandala               Airgo Networks, Inc., USA
Byoung-Jo Kim          AT&T Labs - Research, USA
Taekyoung Kwon         Seoul National University, KOREA
Tae-Jin Lee                    Sungkyunkwan University, KOREA
Stefan Mangold         Swisscom Innovations, SWITZERLAND
Qiang Ni                       Hamilton Institute, IRELAND
Anand R. Prasad        Docomo Euro Labs, GERMANY
Daji Qiao                      Iowa State University, USA
Chandramouli R         Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Puneet Sharma          HP Labs, USA
Ilenia Tinnirello              University of Palermo, ITALY