We apologize if you receive the CFP more than once. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - AD HOC NOW 2005 4th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless Cancun, October 6-8, 2005 http://fismat.umich.mx/adhocnow/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Early registration deadline: August, 31st Hotel deadline to avail of rooms being held for AD HOC NOW 2005: Sept 24th

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE --------------------

AD HOC NOW is the fourth of a series of high-quality conferences devoted to ad hoc, wireless and mobile networks. The AD HOC NOW committee invites you to in this new edition, which will be held in Cancun, in October 6th-8th.

The program for this year consist of 27 top-quality papers, and two invited speaker with a well-deserved recognition in the area:

* Prof. Jorge Urrutia, Univ. Nacional (UNAM), Mexico. * Prof. J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz.

ACCEPTED PAPERS --------------- Playing CSMA/CA Game to Deter Backoff Attacks in Ad Hoc Wireless LANs Jerzy Konorski

Message Stability and Reliable Broadcasts in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Kulpreet Singh, Andronikos Nedos, Gregor Gaertner and Siobhan Clarke

Equilibria for Broadcast Range Assignment Games in Ad-Hoc Networks Pilu Crescenzi, Miriam Di Ianni, Alessandro Lazzoni, Paolo Penna, Gianluca Rossi and Paola Vocca

Performance Analysis of the Hierarchical Layer Graph for Wireless Networks Stefan Ruehrup, Christian Schindelhauer and Klaus Volbert

Cache Placement in Sensor Networks Under Update Constraint Bin Tang, Samir Das, and Himanshu Gupta

Enhancing The Security Of On-demand Routing in Ad Hoc Networks Zhenjiang Li and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves

MIMOMAN: A MIMO Mac protocol for Ad hoc Networks Joon-Sang Park and Mario Gerla

Increasing the Resource-Efficiency of the CSMA/CA Protocol in Directional Ad Hoc Networks Matthias Gruenewald, Feng Xu and Ulrich Rueckert

Location Tracking in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks using Particle Filters Rui Huang and Gergely Zaruba

Selective Route Request Scheme for On-Demand Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks Seung Jae Lee

A Key Management Scheme for Commodity Sensor Networks Yong Ho Kim, Mu Hyun Kim, and Dong Hoon Lee

Design of a hard real-time guarantee scheme for dual ad hoc mode IEEE 802.11 WLANs Junghoon Lee, Mikyung Kang and Yongmoon Jin

DPUMA: A Highly Efficient Multicast Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Rolando Menchaca-Mendez, Ravindra Vaishampayan, J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves and Katia Obraczka

Efficient Mechanisms for Secure Inter-node and Aggregation Processing in Sensor Networks Tassos Dimitriou

Probability Distributions for Channel Utilisation Christian Schindelhauer and Kerstin VoB

Approximation Algorithms for Minimum Bandwith Multicast Trees in Wireless Mesh Networks Pedro M. Ruiz and Antonio F. Gomez-Skarmeta

Stressing is better than relaxing for negative cost cycle detection in networks K. Subramani

Enhanced power-aware Routing for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Il-Hee Shin, Chae-Woo Lee

Randomized AB-Face-AB Routing Algorithms in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks Thomas Fevens, Alaa Eddien Abdallah, and Badr Naciri Bennani

A Gathering Point Detection Scheme for Directed Diffusion in Wireless Sensor Networks Jeongho Son, Jinsuk Pak and Kijun Han

Cluster-Based Framework in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks Peng Fan, James Haran, Peter Nelson and John Dillenburg

Biology Inspired Distributed Consensus in Massively-Deployed Sensor Networks K.H.Jones, K.N.Lodding, S.Olariu, L.W.Wilson and C.Xin

A Multiple Path Characterization of Ad-Hoc Network Capacity Peter Giese and Ioanis Nikolaidis

Reed-Solomon and Hermitian Code-based Scheduling Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Carlos H. Rentel and Thomas Kunz

Efficient broadcasting in Self-Organizing Multi-hop Wireless Networks Nathalie Mitton and Eric Fleury

An Intelligent Sensor Network for Oceanographic Data Acquisition. Chris Roadknight, Antonio Gonzalez, Laura. Parrot, Steve Boult and Ian Marshall

A service discovery protocol with maximally area disjoint paths in mobile ad hoc networks Shihong Zou, Le Tian, Shiduan Cheng and Yu Lin

REGISTRATION ------------

You can proceed to: http://fismat.umich.mx/adhocnow/?f=registration

After you complete your registration to ADHOCNOW! 2005, you'll be able to download a postcript document which must be filled in with your credit card data and faxed to the number shown in order to secure your reservation to the Oasis Hotel.

The conference will be held at the Oasis Cancun Hotel. The hotel rate for this conference is within an All-inclusive program, which entitles you to all meals (buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner), unlimited drinks, recreational activities, non-motorized water sports, gym facilities, evening shows, disco, all taxes and tips. Rates are as follows:

Single US$86.00 Double US$140.00 Triple US$170.00

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATON ------------------------- For questions regarding obtaining visas, accomodation, etc, please contact Edgar Chavez (mailto:elchavez@fismat.umich.mx).