Subject: [manet] WiMeshNets 2006: Call for Participation and Workshop Program

From: Nicola Scalabrino <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:00:54 +0200

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

First International Workshop on "Wireless mesh: moving towards applications"
(WIMESHNETS 2006) August 10th 20006, Waterloo, CAN,
http://www.wimeshnets.org/

Sponsored by ICST, Create-Net and EU (IST-FET). In conjunction with Qshine
2006. 

PROGRAM:

8:45 Welcome

09:00 Keynote by Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Session I: Internet access and Performance Evaluation
- Hassnaa Moustafa, Usman Javaid, Tinku Mohamed Rasheed,
  Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, Djamal-Eddine Meddour (France Telekom, FR): 
  A Panorama on Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures,
  Applications and Technical Challenges (Invited Paper)
- Kamran Jamshaid, Lily Li and Paul A.S. Ward (University of Waterloo, CAN):
  Gateway Control of Wireless Mesh Networks
- Wei Ji-bo, Wu Yu, Xi Yong, Huang Qing-yan (National University of Defense
  Technology, China): 
  Implementing a High Throughput Access to IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks
- Marisa Catalan, Josep Paradells, Carles Gomez, Anna Calveras,
  Mireia Marcet (UPC, Spain), Javier Rubio, Daniel Almodovar (Vodafone, Spain):
  Extending Wireless Mesh Networks over UMTS: A proxy-based approach

12:10 Lunch

13:50 Session II: Routing and Channel Assignment
- Francisco J. Ros, Pedro M. Ruiz (University of Murcia, Spain): 
  Low Overhead Architecture for Infrastructure-based
  Wireless Mesh Networks (Invited Paper)
- Di-Wei Huang, Phone Lin (National Taiwan University, Taiwan),
  Chai-Hien Gan (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan),
  Jeu-Yih Jeng (Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan): 
  A Mobility Management Mechanism using Location Cache for
  Wireless Mesh Network
- Enzo Baccarelli, Mauro Biagi, Nicola Cordeschi, Cristian Pelizzoni
  (University of Rome, Italy): 
  Fast Downloading of Large Files via Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
- Timo Vanhatupa , Marko Hännikäinen , Timo D. Hämäläinen
  (Tampere University of Technology, Finland): 
  Optimization of Mesh WLAN Channel Assignment with a Configurable Genetic
Algorithm

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Session III: Experimental Platforms and Applications
- Angelo Annunziata, Mauro Oliviero, Giuseppe Scotti, Alessandro Trifiletti
  (University of Rome "La Sapienza"): 
  A Low Cost, Low Power Wireless Sensor Network Implementing
  Pulse Coupled Oscillators Based Synchronization Strategies (Invited paper)
- Antonio Capone, Stefano Napoli, Alberto Pollastro (Politecnico of Milan): 
  MobiMESH: An Experimental Platform for Wireless MESH
  Networks with Mobility Support
- Stefan Bouckaert (Ghent University, Belgium), Johan Bergs (University of
  Antwerp, Belgium), Dries Naudts (Ghent University, Belgium) , John Baekelmans,
  Erik De Kegel (Cisco Systems, Belgium), Nik Van den Wijngaert, Chris Blondia
  (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Ingrid Moerman, Piet Demeester
  (Ghent University, Belgium): 
  A Mobile Crisis Management System for Emergency Services: 
  from Concept to Field Test
- Johnathan Ishmael, Nicholas Race (Lancaster University, UK): 
  Routing challenges: Peer to Peer Applications on a Community Mesh Network

17:40 Workshop Closing

COMMITTEES:

Workshop Chair:
Giovanni Iacovoni, Create-Net, Italy

Technical Program Chair:
Andreas J. Kassler, University of Karlstad, Sweden

Publicity Chair:
Nicola Scalabrino, Create-Net, Italy

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