[IFIP Med-Hoc-Net'09] CFP Med-Hoc-Net'09 - Haifa, Israel, June 2009 - Deadline Approaching

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 8th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, Med-Hoc-Net 2009

Technically sponsored by: IEEE Communications Society and Euro-NF Network of Excellence

http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/med-hoc-net2009/index.htm

June 29-July 2, 2009
Haifa, Israel

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: February 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2009
Final version due: April 15, 2009
Conference dates: June 29-July 2, 2009

OVERVIEW

Wireless ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years. Now, that some of the fundamental issues and challenges have been clearly assessed, the focus is partially shifting to new issues, which include application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.), autonomous organization and operation, optimization and control, and service creation and support. Moreover, new and exciting challenges are posed by closely related networks such as wireless mesh networks, sensor networks, and vehicular networks.

Med-Hoc-Net is a major annual international workshop, aiming to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry. Following Sicily (2006), Corfu (2007), and Palma de Mallorca (2008), Med-Hoc-Net 2009 will take place in Haifa (Israel). It will be held at the Viterbi Computech Center in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

PAPERS

The papers solicited cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc, wireless, sensor, and mesh networks, including but not limited to:

* Routing algorithms and protocols
* MAC protocols, scheduling, power control, and resource allocation
* Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks
* Middleware for ad hoc networks
* Application driven architectures and protocols
* Sensor network applications and protocols
* Vehicular networks
* Cognitive radio networks
* Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks
* Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes
* Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, etc.)
* Self organization and network reconfiguration
* Optimization models and algorithms
* Resource and service discovery
* Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.)
* Security and privacy

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS or IFIP Series.

Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submitted papers should address original work not published or under review elsewhere. Submitted manuscripts must be formatted according to the SSBM IFIP Series formats (http://springer.com/series/6102) and should not exceed 12 pages. Papers should be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/7056). All submissions will be reviewed by members of the TPC and experts in the field.

TRAVEL GRANTS

Graduate students with accepted papers will receive travel grants to partially cover travel expenses.
Members of the Euro-NF network will be able to use their mobility budget to attend the workshop.

GENERAL CHAIR
Adrian Segall, Technion

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Reuven Cohen, Technion
Gil Zussman, Columbia University

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ozgur Akan, Middle East Technical University
Chen Avin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Amotz Bar-Noy, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY, New York
Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp
Steven Borbash, University of Maryland
Sem Borst, Eindhoven University of Technology
Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano
Francesca Cuomo, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Francesco De Pellegrini, CREATE-NET
Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus
Alon Efrat, University of Arizona
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London
Isabelle Guerin-Lassous, Universite de Lyon - LIP
Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester
Neeraj Jaggi, Wichita State University
Liran Katzir, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Long Le, MIT
Emilio Leonardi, Politecnico di Torino
Lavy Libman, NICTA
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace
Pietro Manzoni, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Ibrahim Matta, Boston University
Ravi Mazumdar, University of Waterloo
Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo
Pascale Minet, INRIA
Gabi Nakibly, Israel's National EW Research Center
Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University
Yoram Ofek, Universita di Trento
Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Dario Pompili, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Danny Raz, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Zvi Rosberg, CSIRO, ICT Centre
Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo
Izhak Rubin, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
David Starobinski, Boston University
Hwee Pink Tan, Institute for Infocomm Research
Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Anil Vullikanti, Virginia Tech.
Stefan Weber, Trinity College Dublin
Michael Welzl, University of Innsbruck
Murtaza Zafer, IBM Research
Michele Zorzi, Universita degli Studi di Padova

STEERING COMMITTEE
Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano
Farouk Kamoun, Escole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique
Giovanni Pau, University of California at Los Angeles
Guy Pujolle, Université Paris 6

For more information, please visit http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/med-hoc-net2009/index.htm, or contact the General Chair, Adrian Segall (segall@ee.technion.ac.il), or the Publicity Chair, Hanan Shpungin (shpungin@cs.bgu.ac.il).