Dear all, Hope that you will be interested in contributing to this workshop. Aplogize if you received this CFP multiple times. Regards, Sunghyun Choi
--- 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 The workshop solicits high quality and previously unpublished work in the field.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 submission details will be provided at the workshop home page at http://www.willopan.org. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: September 7, 2005 Notification of Acceptance: October 7, 2005
Camera-Ready Papers: November 7, 2005 Technical Program Committee (TBC) Santosh P Abraham Qualcomm, USA Suman Banerjee University of Wisconsin, Madison, 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 Sumit Roy University of Washington, USA Puneet Sharma HP Labs, USA Ilenia Tinnirello University of Palermo, ITALY Li-Chun Wang National Chiao-Tung University, TAIWAN