Subject: Wireless Mobile Internet Workshop

From: Wireless Mobile Internet 2001 <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 02:31:57 +0100 (MET)

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              CALL FOR PAPER: WIRELESS MOBILE INTERNET
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The first ACM Wireless Mobile Internet Workshop will take place in
conjunction with the International Conference on Mobile Computing
and Networking, Mobicom 2001, to be held in Rome, Italy, on July 
16-21, 2001. This is an excellent opportunity to participate in two
events covering a wide range of research in mobile computing and
Internet related technologies.
The workshop will be one-day long. It is a single track event
and will have presentation of selected and invited papers as
well as a panel discussion.

Important dates:
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 - April 1, 2001: Electronic Paper Submission Deadline
 - May 30, 2001: Acceptance/Rejection Notification
 - July 21, 2001: Workshop day

Conference site and email
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http://cerbero.elet.polimi.it/wmi2001
[email-masked]

Submission Instructions:
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http://cerbero.elet.polimi.it/wmi2001/subm.html

Journal publication:
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Selected workshop papers will be considered for publication on 
a Special Issue of the Journal "Wireless Communications and
Mobile Computing", Wiley Publ.

Workshop general objectives
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This workshop will explore the emerging area of Wireless Mobile Internet. 
The tremendous success of Internet related technologies coupled with 
higher wireless access speeds promised by new and emerging technologies 
and standards such as GPRS, EDGE and UMTS brings about opportunities 
to support new applications and services. The emergence of highly 
miniaturized, compact, and sophisticated Personal Digital 
Assistance (PDA) devices brought about by advances in display 
technologies, circuit design, and embedded software technologies 
together with promises of wireless access to the Internet brings 
about new frontiers in usage and applications which represent
what has come to be known as pervasive computing.

The workshop focuses on major aspects of this revolution, with focus 
on problems related to IP-based mobile Internet and problems related 
to the wireless access to the Internet. On the networking front, the emergence 
of mobility has introduced new challenging problems such as QOS, control, 
management and routing. The emergence of new wireless access technologies, 
ranging from Bluetooth to UMTS and satellite systems confronts us on how 
to smoothly merge these diverse technologies. Together, they offer 
new capabilities to applications such as mobile commerce, 
information retrieval and such. 

This workshop will be the first open forum to address these problems. 
Leaders and thinkers of the field from academia, industry and research 
laboratories will assemble to share their views on technical problems and pave 
the road for the visions of tomorrow. 

Detailed workshop topics
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Authors are invited to submit original papers describing current
research and visions of the future. Papers should address issues
related to wireless internet protocols, services and platforms, as
well as issues regarding transmission, access, and mobility technologies
specifically designed to support Internet traffic and applications. A list
of detailed topics includes, but is not limited to:
 - Access protocols and modulation schemes 
 - Network architectures for wireless Internet access 
 - mobility management mechanisms 
 - Handover and admission control 
 - Traffic models for wireless internet applications 
 - QoS support in wireless access networks. 
 - Performance enhancements of Internet protocols over wireless links 
 - Power efficiency 
 - Mobile services, applications, middleware 
 - Security and billing 
 - Internet Appliances

Organizing Committee:
 - Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy, [email-masked]
 - Parviz Kermani, IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center, NY, USA, [email-masked]
 - Silvano Pupolin, University of Padova, Italy, [email-masked]

Technical Program Committee:
- Andrea Baiocchi, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy 
  ([email-masked])
- Pravin Bhagwat, ATT Research, USA
  ([email-masked])
- Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy
  ([email-masked])
- Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA
  ([email-masked])
- Shyam S. Chakraborty, Helsinky University of Technologies, Finland
  ([email-masked])
- Francesca Cuomo, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
  ([email-masked])
- Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Telecommunications, Sweden
  ([email-masked])
- Zygmunt Haas, Cornell University, USA
  ([email-masked])
- Sung-Ju Lee, Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
  ([email-masked])
- Nitin Vaidya, Texam A&M University, USA
  ([email-masked])
- Lorenzo Vangelista, Telital, Italy
  ([email-masked])