CFP: First International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless Networking

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First International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless Networking (AWN 2009)

http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~dressler/awn09/

Co-located with
5th International Wireless Communications and
Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009)

June 21-24, 2009, Leipzig, Germany

IWCMC requested IEEE/ACM technical co-sponsorship (pending)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Aims and Scope

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and
technologists to present new ideas and contributions in the domain of
wireless networking employed to support the needs of future wireless
communication systems. To deal with the increasing complexity of large-
scale wireless networking systems, computers and applications must learn
to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance from humans
- a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing.

Quality, reliability, security and robustness are specific demands to be
provided by future autonomic wireless networks. Cognitive radio has
emerged as a promising technology for maximizing the utilization of the
limited radio bandwidth while accommodating the increasing amount of
services and applications in the wireless networks. Similarly, cross-
layer techniques exploit locally available information for providing
more robust and scalable wireless communication systems.

The purpose of the First International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless
Networking is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing
all aspects of self-organization, adaptive management of available
resources, cooperation and detection of selfishness in wireless
networks. In doing so, we hope to further build and nurture a community
that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale autonomic
wireless networks.

Papers are solicited in the broad range of wireless networking with
focus on autonomic communication. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

- Smart antenna technologies
- Cognitive and software defined radio
- Cooperative communications
- Incentive compatible and cooperative behavior
- Self-organization
- Cross-layer design and optimization
- Medium access control
- Quality of service
- Radio resource management
- Selfishness detection
- Jamming
- Security and privacy
- Modeling and simulation
- Testbeds and experimental platforms

Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers not exceeding
six pages (hard limit), including text, figures, tables, and references.
Papers must be written in English and must be in standard IEEE
conference format. All submissions will be handled electronically
through the EDAS system http://edas.info, and must be in PDF format.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which
will be included in IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). Selected
papers will be further considered for possible publication in a special
issue of the Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile
Computing (WCMC), and International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive
Communications Systems.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008.
Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009.
Camera-Ready Paper Submission: April 15, 2009.
Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009.

Workshop Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs:
- Falko Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany,
dressler@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- Tommaso Melodia, SUNY Buffalo, NY, tmelodia@eng.buffalo.edu
- Enzo Mingozzi, Univ. of Pisa, Italy, e.mingozzi@iet.unipi.it

Technical Program Committee:

- Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca, Italy
- Michael Bahr, Siemens AG, Germany
- Lars Berlemann, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
- Luciano Bononi, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
- Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net, Italy
- Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy
- Kaushik Chowdhury, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
- Eylem Ekici, Ohio State Univ., OH
- Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark
- Reinhard German, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany
- Holger Karl, Univ. of Paderborn, Germany
- Mirco Musolesi, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
- Edith Ngai, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
- Melek Onen, Eurecom, France
- Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
- Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, NJ
- Christian Rohner, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
- Antonio Ruzzelli, Univ. College Dublin, Ireland
- Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany
- Mehmet Vuran, Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln, NE
- Andreas Willig, TU Berlin, Germany