Subject: [manet] WiMAN 2007 -- Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (*** Deadline is 10 days away!***)

From: "Jun LUO \(UWaterloo\)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:16:09 -0400

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        First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks
                                 (WiMAN'07)
                  Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 16, 2007
                      in conjunction with ICCCN 2007.
            http://www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/WiMAN2007/index.htm

                      Submission Deadline: March 23, 2007

     Distinguished papers will be invited to extend to full version for
      a special issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal 
(ComCom).

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Recently, wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from 
academia,
industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable 
characteristics, such
as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy 
maintenance,
high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been 
advocated
as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity 
and
ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise 
networking,
or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical 
accumulations
from more than a decade's research effort in mobile ad hoc networks, many 
research
issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, 
the
introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio,
multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design 
of
physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as 
all-wireless
office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various 
security
issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh 
networks.

This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who 
share
interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks.  The main purpose 
is to
promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of 
architectures,
protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless networks.  It 
also aims
at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals 
working in this
area. We plan to seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and 
work in-progress
at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application 
layer to the
physical layer.

Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the 
following:

        Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking
        Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN
        Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking
        MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond)
        Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols
        Implications of smart antennas on MAC and routing protocols
        Quality of Services provisioning
        Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks
        Network deployment, localization, and synchronization
        Topology construction and maintenance
        Methods and tools for mesh and ad hoc networks simulation
        Modeling and performance evaluations
        Physical layer techniques
        Cross layer optimizations
        Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms
        Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures
        Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks
        Security-related issues in mesh and ad hoc networks
        Testbed, prototype, and practical systems
        Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks
        Wireless sensor networks and RFID

Important Dates
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Paper submission due:   March 23, 2007
Acceptance notification: May 11, 2007
Camera-ready due:  June 1, 2007
Workshop: August 16, 2007

Submissions and Publications
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Technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not 
currently
under review somewhere else, are solicited. Submissions should include an 
abstract,
key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the 
papers
should be limited up to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format 
(double-column,
10-pt font). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or 
postscript)
by sending it as an e-mail attachment to Liqiang Zhang 
([email-masked]) or
Dakai Zhu ([email-masked]). Submission of a paper should be regarded as an
undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors 
will
register and attend the workshop to present the work. All papers will be 
peer
reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. All accepted 
papers will
be published in workshop proceeding by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE 
Digital
Library, or Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Distinguished papers will be invited to extend to full version for a special 
issue
of Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal (ComCom) on Wireless Mesh 
Networks.
The special issue will be published in early 2008.

Organizing Committees
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Workshop Program Co-Chairs

        Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA 
([email-masked])

        Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA 
([email-masked])

Publicity Chair

        Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada ([email-masked])

Technical Program Committee

     Malik Audeh, Tropos Networks, USA
     Edoardo S. Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
     Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy
     Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy
     Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA
     Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China
     Christian Hartmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany
     Anders Host-Madsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
     Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
     Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea
     Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA
     Hyunjeong hannah Lee, Intel Research, USA
     Guoqing Li, Intel Research, USA
     Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
     Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong
     Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada
     Frank Reichenbach, University of Rostock, Germany
     Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy
     Kaoru Sezaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
     Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
     Pavan Sikka, CSIRO, Australia
     David Surma, Indiana University South Bend, USA
     Ali Tosun, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
JP Vasseur, Cisco, USA
     Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong
     Yuan Xue, Vanderbilt University, USA
     Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan

Advisory Committee

     Hossein Hakimzadeh, Indiana University South Bend, USA
     Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA
     Yingbo Hua, University of California Riverside, USA
     Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA
     Bahar Sadeghi, Intel Research, USA
     Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, USA
     Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA

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