IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2005 (IEEE MHWMN'05)

Call for Papers:

IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2005 (IEEE MHWMN'05)

http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~qzeng/MHWMN2005/CFP.html Call for Paper (PDF)

To be held in conjunction with IEEE MASS 2005

Washington DC, USA, November 7-11, 2005

AIM and SCOPE: The traditional centralized wireless and mobile networks are based on single-hop architecture and rely on the existing fixed infrastructure such as base stations or access points. The proliferation and deployment of radio access networks such as Wireless WANs, Wireless LANs, and Wireless PANs with distinguishing characteristics of data rate, coverage range, power, mobility, and prices will clearly lead to a need for seamless and ubiquitous access across these various networks. Such an integrated heterogeneous environment enables a user to access a particular network depending upon the application needs and the types of radio access networks (RANs) available (e.g., cellular network, ad hoc, WLAN, WPAN etc). The heterogeneous multi-hop wireless and mobile networks, on the other hand, provide unlimited mobility and greater flexibility but introduce a number of challenges due to dynamic network topology. The design of efficient and scalable protocols for existing multi-hop wireless and mobile networks such as wireless and mobile ad hoc networks continue to pose challenges at all the layers of networking stack. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate a global heterogeneous architecture and services that together provide seamless integration of single-hop networks (e.g., cellular, WLAN, WWAN) and multi-hop mobile ad hoc networks.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the latest research and future research directions in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless and mobile networks. We are seeking original and previously unpublished research papers addressing theoretical and application issues in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless mobile networks.

TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

Multi-hop architectures and protocols for resource management
Quality of services (QoS) delivery in MHWMN
Robust and scalable routing protocols for MHWMN
MAC protocols for MHWMN
Self-configuration and synchronization for MHWMN
Security issues in MHWMN
Topology control and management for MHWMN
Mobility models and location management in MHWMN
Cross-layer design and interactions for MHWMN
Modeling and performance evaluation for MHWMN
Algorithms for localization and signal processing in MHWMN
Implementation testbeds for MHWMN
Operating systems and middleware for MHWMN

SUBMISSIONS: Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation. The manuscript must follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is eight (8) pages. Authors are requested to submit their papers (PDF format), contact addresses, telephone number, fax number, and e-mail addresses (text format) to the co-chairs Qing-An Zeng (qzeng@ececs.uc.edu) and Mieso Denko (denko@cis.uoguelph.ca) by July 1, 2005.

Note: Some selected high quality papers from the workshop will be published at JPCC (Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications) Special Issue on “Key Technologies and Applications of Wireless Sensor and Body-area Networks” (http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~yctseng/cfp/JPCC-sensor-BAN-CFP.htm). Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication in the special issue

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission: July 1, 2005

Notification of acceptance: August 5, 2005

Camera-ready papers: August 26, 2005

WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR:

Anup Kumar

Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department

University of Louisville, KY 40292, USA

Email: ak@louisville.edu

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:

PUBLICITY CHAIR:

Kui Wu

Department of Computer Science

University of Victoria

V8W 3P6, British Columbia, Canada

Email: wkui@cs.uvic.ca

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Boukerche, Azzedine, University of Ottawa, Canada

Caffery, James, University of Cincinnati, USA

Cheng, Maggie, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

Cheng, Xiuzhen, George Washington University, USA

Conrad, James, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA

Dahlberg, Teresa, University of North Carolina, USA

Datta, Ajoy, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA

Datta, Suprakash, York University, Canada

Ghosh, Ratan, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Huang, Qingfeng, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Inc., USA

Leung, Victor C. M., The University of British Columbia, Canada

Li, Bo, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Li, Wei (Wayne), University Toledo, USA

Lin, Chuang, Tsinghua University, China

Nakano, Koji, Hiroshima University, Japan

Nasser, Nidal, University of Guelph, Canada

Olariu, Stephan, Old Dominion University, USA

Park, Sang-Eon, Cal Poly Pomona, USA

Pierre, Samuel, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

Srimani, Pradip K., Clemson University, USA

Tseng, Yu-Chee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Vlajic, Natalija, York University, Canada

Wang, Li-Chun, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan

Watanabe, Takashi, University of Shizuoka, Japan

Wu, Hong-Yi, University of Louisiana, USA

Xue, Guoliang (Larry), Arizona State University, USA

Yang, Jiasi, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China

Yang, Yuanyuan, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA

Yeh, Chi-Hsiang, Queen's University, Canada

Youn, Jon (Jong-Hoon), University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

Zhang, Jingyuan, University of Alabama, USA

Zhou, Hong, University of Southern Queensland, Australia