Multihop Wireless Network Testbeds and Experiments Workshop

 

International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference

July 5-8, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey

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Scope | Submission Guidelines | Important Dates | Workshop Chairs | TPC Members

Scope

This workshop intends to bring together researchers working in the broad area of experimental multihop wireless networking such as MANETs, WSN, VANETs, Wireless Mesh Networks, etc. While many conferences and workshops provide a venue to present and discuss multihop wireless network protocols or system architectures, most research work is typically done based on analytical models and/or extensive simulations. The focus of this workshop is to serve as a forum to share new ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of multihop wireless networks and systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this area. The workshop values results and insights obtained from working implementations more highly than those obtained solely from simulations, but papers explicitly comparing tested results and simulation results are highly solicited. Submitted papers should be original and previously unpublished. The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

·         Design & evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms

·         Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different testbeds/evaluation methodologies

·         Experiences/lessons from recent testbed deployments

·         Wireless testbed case studies

·         Industrial application and integrated innovation

·         The use of multihop wireless testbeds in teaching and research

·         Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures, testbed federations

·         Testbed management issues and monitoring support

·         Configurable hardware/software platforms for testbeds

·         Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols

·         Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing

·         Integrated tools/toolkits to ease transition between simulation and deployment

·         New measurement methodologies and infrastructures

·         Measurement and characterization (modeling) of real-world aspects of multihop wireless networks such as usage patterns, traffic, mobility and channel characteristics

·         Innovative measurements methodologies & tools

·         Testbed tools for interoperability, benchmarking and traffic measurements

 

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original papers of up to 6 pages including figures, tables, and references, in PDF format. Accepted papers will be published in the IWCMC 2011 conference proceedings, which will be included in the IEEE Digital Library. Submission implies that at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the conference. Electronic submission is accepted through the EDAS web site at http://edas.info/N9425.

 

Selected papers will be further considered for possible publication in three special issues in the following Journals:

1. Wiley Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC)

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/76507157/home

2. The International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet)

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijsnet

3. The International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems

(IJAACS): www.inderscience.com/ijaacs

 

In addition, there will also be best paper awards presented during the conference.

 

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: January 17, 2011 (firm)

Paper acceptance notification: March 15, 2011

Camera-ready paper submissions: April 1, 2011 April 12, 2011

Author registration: April 1, 2011 April 12, 2011

Conference date: July 5-8, 2011

 

Workshop Co-Chairs

Prof. Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Prof. Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

 

Technical Program Committee Members

Nael	Abu-Ghazaleh	State University of New York
Nauman	Aslam	Dalhousie University
Michel	Barbeau	Carleton University
Ronald	Beaubrun	Universite Laval
Hannes	Frey	University of Paderborn
Yacine	Ghamri-Doudane	LIGM and ENSIIE
Thomas	Kunz	Carleton University
Ramiro	Liscano	University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Pascale	Minet	INRIA
Ioanis	Nikolaidis	University of Alberta
Pedro	Ruiz	University of Murcia
Marc	St-Hilaire	Carleton University
Violet	Syrotiuk	Arizona State University
Damla	Turgut	University of Central Florida
Xudong	Wang	Shanhai Jiaotong University.
Paul	Ward	University of Waterloo
Kui	Wu	University of Victoria
Yifeng	Zhou	Communications Research Centre