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8th MSWiM 2005 Sponsored by ACM and IEEE (Pending approval)

The Eigth International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

October 10-13, 2005 Montreal, Canada

http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2005/

MSWiM is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobile and wireless systems. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of modeling, analysis and simulation of mobile computing and wireless networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and wireless networks * Simulation and analysis of wireless protocols and mobile computing systems * Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation of mobile and wireless systems * Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling * QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile networks * Traffic measurements and models for audio, video, multimedia, and WWW services * New simulation tools for wireless systems * Database management systems and wireless data dissemination * Modeling and simulation of inter-vehicular networks * Wireless PANs and LANs * Ad hoc and sensor networks

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Paper length should not exceed 20 pages. Only Postscript and PDF formats are accepted. Instructions for paper submission will be posted at: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2005/ Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due: June 3rd, 2005 Notification: July 24th, 2005 Camera Ready due: August 22nd, 2005

Organizing Committee

General Co-chairs Azzedine Boukerche University of Ottawa, Canada Email: boukerch@site.uottawa.ca

Victor Leung University of British Columbia, Canada E-mail: vleung@ece.ubc.ca

Program Co-Chairs Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini Politecnico di Torino, Italy Email: chiasserini@polito.it

Vikram Srinivasan National University of Singapore Email:elevs@nus.edu.sg

Workshop Chair Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK E-mail: mohamed@dcs.gla.ac.uk

Poster Chair Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, Greece E-mail: nikole@cti.gr

Finance Chair Carl Tropper McGill University, Canada E-mail: carl@cs.mcgill.ca

Publicity Co-Chairs Luciano Bononi Universita' di Bologna, Italy Email: bononi@cs.unibo.it

Helen Karatza Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Email: karatza@csd.auth.gr

Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare Barddal University, Florianopolis, Brazil Email: mirela@barddal.br

Tutorial Chair Samuel Pierre, Polytechique de Montreal, Canada

Program Committee Simonetta Balsamo, Universita' Ca' Foscari, Italy Christian Bettstetter, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA Kameswari Chebrolu, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy Teresa A. Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Juan Carlos De Martin, IEIIT-CNR, Italy Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria Samrat Ganguly, NEC Laboratories, USA Ralph Gholmieh, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Tham Chen Khong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Minkyong Kim, Dartmouth College, USA Iordanis Koutsopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Francesco Lo Presti, Universita' dell'Aquila, Italy Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Sotiris Nikoletseas, Patras University, Greece Mehul Motani, National University of Singapore, Singapore Pavan Nugehalli, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Bhaskar Raman, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil Dirk Staehle, University of Wurzburg, Germany Mineo Takai, University of California at Los Angeles, USA David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany Daniela Tuninetti, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Canada Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU

Steering Committee Chair Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada

Advisory Board Committee Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan William C.Y. Lee, AirTouch Inc.