See: http://wmash2003.cs.ucla.edu


Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2003
Notification: July 18, 2003
Camera ready due: August 1, 2003 

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                        PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

                               ACM WMASH 2003

                  The First ACM International Workshop on
         Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots

               Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE (pending approval)
                   (In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2003)

                             September 19, 2003
                             San Diego, CA, USA

   The goal of the workshop is to address and discuss the technical and
   business challenges, ideas, views, and research results in providing a
   public wireless Internet services and applications for nomadic users
   in small, highly-populated, public spaces (wireless LANs and
   "hotspots").

   There are several research issues still to be explored in the public
   WLAN arena. What is the overall network architecture and service
   model? How to roam through multiple wireless access providers with a
   unique service contract? How to decouple the wireless infrastructure
   providers from the Internet service (and content) providers? How to
   locate service facilities in the wireless access domain and how to
   match the available facilities with the user needs? How to exploit
   location and context information? How to provide differentiated
   service levels to different customers?

   This workshop is aimed at discussing these and several other technical
   and business challenges behind the evolution of WLANs from cable
   replacement to public access mean. Leaders and thinkers of the field
   from academia and industry will assemble to share their ideas and
   views. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers or
   position papers, describing current research and visions of the
   future. We are specifically interested in work focusing on Transport
   layer and above (layers 4-7). Within the context of interest to this
   workshop, a list of topics includes, but not limited to
     * applications and services
     * public WLAN architectures
     * community-owned WLAN infrastructures
     * WLAN-based ad hoc network service creation and management
     * new service and business models
     * interworking and cooperation with public cellular systems
     * mobility, roaming, and handoff management
     * context-aware services and technologies
     * location-aware applications and services
     * multimedia wireless applications
     * authentication, accounting, billing and payment
     * security and privacy
     * middleware support
     * service location and discovery
     * traffic measurements and modeling
     * case studies on deployed platforms and experimental testbeds

   Please consult the Program Co-Chairs Giuseppe Bianchi and Sung-Ju Lee
   if you are uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the
   workshop.


   Paper Submission Guidelines:

   Papers that are unpublished and are not currently under review by
   other journals, conferences, or workshops are solicited. We are
   interested in:
     * technical papers that describe original research results
     * position papers that proposes new technologies or shares future
       vision (similar to challenges papers in MobiCom)

   All submissions will be handled electronically. The paper must be in
   either PDF or PostScript format. The page limit of the regular
   technical papers is 15 pages and the position papers is 10 pages in US
   Letter sized paper in single column with reasonable margins. Please
   use font sizes of at least 10 points.

   All papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee
   members. Papers will be judged by their technical merit, originality,
   and relevance to the workshop. All accepted papers will be published
   in the proceedings. Selected papers will also be included in a special
   issue of an ACM journal. We expect authors of the accepted papers will
   attend the workshop and present their work.