WIMAN 2008 Call for Papers

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

Vehicular mesh and ad hoc networks

Wireless sensor networks

Self-adaptive and self-organizing wireless networking systems

Important Dates

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Paper submission due: December 7, 2007

Acceptance notification: February 11, 2008

Camera-ready due: March 9, 2008

Workshop: June 20, 2008

Submissions and Publications

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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and

recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include

an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of

the papers should be limited to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format

(double-column, 10-pt font) with at most two additional pages with extra charge.

One additional page costs {150}. Submission method will be posted on the workshop webpage

shortly. 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 proceedings by IEEE Computer Society

Press and IEEE online library.

For details, please check:

http://www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/WiMAN2008/index.htm