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Last Call for Papers

5th IEEE International Workshop on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (IEEE WMAN 05)

April 4-8, 2005, Denver, Colorado, USA (Omni Interlocken Resort)

To be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2005

Supported by the IEEE Computer Society

http://ru1.cti.gr/wman05/

SCOPE:

The field of wireless and mobile computing is an important research challenging area, that emerges from the integration among personal computing distributed computing, cellular technology and the Web. This is possible due to the continuously increasing interaction between communication and computing, which is changing the information access from the current reactive ``anytime anywhere'' into the incoming proactive ``all the time everywhere'' approach. Nowadays, there is a large variety of networks spanning from the well-known cellular networks to non-infrastructured wireless networks such as mobile ad hoc networks and sensor networks.

This scenario raises a number of interesting, and difficult, algorithmic issues in diverse areas such as location management, resource allocation, ubiquitous information, network connectivity, reliability and security, and energy consumption.

This workshop is intended to cover contributions in both the design and analysis of discrete algorithms and the system modelling in the context of mobile, wireless, ad-hoc, and sensor networks. In particular, it aims at bringing together the practitioners and theoreticians of the field. We are seeking for papers that are original, unpublished and not currently under review. The objective of this workshop is to bring together leading technologists and researchers in these ``critical areas'' of research in order to have a forum for discussing fundamental challenges, identifying future perspectives, and exchanging ideas about ongoing research.

Authors are solicited to submit original unpublished manuscripts for this workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings (by IEEE CS Press) of the IPDPS workshops.

TOPICS:

The scope of this workshop includes, but is not limited, to:

* frequency and channel assignment algorithms * cryptography and security * distributed algorithms * pricing modeling and solutions * algorithms for satellite communications * mechanisms design and cooperation enforcement * algorithms and modeling on satellite and radio networks * algorithms for resource management in mobile, wireless and ad-hoc networks * data management on mobile and wireless computing * algorithms for single-hop and multiple-hop packet radio networks * routing, and communication primitives in ad hoc and sensor networks * synchronization and scheduling issues in mobile and ad hoc networks * energy saving protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks * complexity analysis of algorithms for mobile environments * caching and prefetching for information access in wireless networks * algorithms and modeling for tracking and locating mobile users

IMPORTANT DATES:

Extended submission deadline: ** November 24, 2004, 5pm EST ** Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: January 6th, 2005 Camera-Ready Paper Due: January 25, 2005

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND PUBLICATION:

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the WMAN workshop. The length of the papers should be a maximum of 10 double-column single-spaced pages including figures and references on 8.5 by 11 inch paper using at least 10 point font (based upon IEEE Proceedings Style). Please remember that the final versions will be restricted to 8 pages.

Authors must submit their papers electronically via EDAS (http://edas.info/)

Note that once the paper gets accepted, it is MANDATORY that at least one author should attend the workshop and present the paper.

The accepted papers will be published in the same printed abstract volume and CD-ROM proceedings as other workshops of the IPDPS 2005 conference by the IEEE Computer Society Press and IEEE online library.

General Chair:

Cristina M. Pinotti Dept. of Computer Sciences and Telecommunications University of Trento ITALY E-mail: pinotti@science.unitn.it

Program Committee Co-Chairs:

Azzedine Boukerche SITE University of Ottawa Canada E-mail: boukerch@site.uottawa.ca

Sotiris Nikoletseas Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, and Computer Technology Institute, Greece E-mail: nikole@cti.gr

Publicity Chair:

Ioannis Chatzigiannakis Dept. of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, and Computer Technology Institute, Greece E-mail: ichatz@cti.gr

Steering Committee

Sajal K. Das, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Mohan Kumar, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Program Committee:

Azzedine Boukerche (Co-Chair), University of Ottawa, Canada Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, University of Patras and CTI, Greece Andrea Clementi, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Josep Diaz, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Khalil EL-Khatib, National Research Council of Canada, Canada Magnus Halldorsson, University of Iceland, Iceland Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA Klaus Jansen, University of Kiel, Germany Elias Koutsoupias, University of Athens, Greece Mirek Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA Robert Leese, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Alessandro Mei, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Sotiris Nikoletseas (Co-Chair), University of Patras and CTI, Greece Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Roberto De Prisco, University of Salerno, Italy Cauligi Raghavendra, University of Southern California, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland Peter Sanders, Max Planck Institute for CS, Germany Mirela Sechi Moretti A.N., Barddal University, Brazil Alex Shvartsman, MIT, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Peter Triantafilloy, University of Patras, Greece Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland