[Mycolleagues] Call for papers: WAHOC'08 Workshop on Wireless and Unstructured Networking

Call for Papers:

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Workshop on Wireless and Unstructured Networking (WAHOC'08): "Taming the
Stray"
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Part of International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information
Technology (http://www.imcsit.org/): IMCSIT'08 Wisla, Poland, October
20-22, 2008

Sponsored by the Polish Information Processing Society in cooperation with:
Poland Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society
Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Institute of Innovation and Information Society (Poland)
Associatión the Técnicos de Informática (Spain)

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As network customers, operators, and designers strive to bring more
productivity and enjoyment into increasingly diverse areas of our lives,
be it business and commerce, health services, crisis management, content
distribution, or multiuser games, mobile communications and ubiquitous
computing are becoming the leading interactivity paradigm. While being
thus "condemned" to succeed, they raise at least two main challenges.
One is the multitude of standards specifying reliable high-speed
wireless networking solutions, and the multitude of heterogeneous
technologies that follow (IEEE 802.11, 802.15 and 802.16, Bluetooth,
MANET, SANet, Mobile IP, and others). Making them coexist, let alone
cooperate, requires integration of many diverse areas of research, such
as internetworking, distributed computing, signal processing, networking
theory, and economics. Can we venture to predict the outcome? Can we
make a case for particular scenarios? Another challenge is the dualism
of fixed-infrastructure vs. ad hoc networks. The latter, despite their
20-year presence in academic literature, have been remarkably slow to
materialize in the real world. Attempts to blame this on our natural
distrust towards systems under distributed control and lacking clear
ownership do not sound convincing: P2P technology does away with central
administration, yet it has become successful to the point of
embarrassing network operators and intellectual property managers. Can
ad hoc networks repeat the success of P2P without becoming an
embarrassment? The purpose of this workshop is to address questions like
the above, to look at wireless networking from a broader perspective, to
present ideas and share experience from their verification.

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The non-exclusive list of topics

- routing and location protocols
- MAC schemes
- modeling methodologies for wireless channels
- cross-layer issues
- anonymity and security
- performance studies and comparisons
- mobile applications
- mobility support, handover mechanisms, mobility brokers (MB), MIP
- self-organization
- residential access systems,
- interworking between ad-hoc and fixed/mobile networks
- virtual networks
- ad-hoc networks as part of urban mesh,
- content distribution and multicast overlay
- pricing and incentive arbitration
- software supporting networked applications
- case studies

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Program Committee Members

Janelle Harms, University of Alberta, Canada
Jerzy Konorski, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Pawel Matusz, Anritsu, UK
Marek Natkaniec, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada
Wladek Olesinski, Sun Microsystems, USA
Wlodek Olesinski, Olsonet Communications Corporation, Canada
Piotr Pacyna, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Andrzej Pach, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Krzysztof Szczypiorski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Slawomir Kuklinski, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Organizing Committee

Pawel Gburzynski, University of Alberta, Canada
Jozef Wozniak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland

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Dates

June 15, 2008: Full paper submission
July 14, 2008: Notification of acceptance
September 1, 2008: Camera ready papers due

Detailed information regarding paper submission, the venue, etc. is
available from the conference website: http://www.imcsit.org/

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