Dear colleague,
refering to my announcement some weeks ago, cf. http://wln2003.cs.bonn.edu/:
Although we already received more papers than will be accepted for WLN 2003,
we reacted on several requests for an extension of the paper submission
deadline:
Submission of papers for WLN 2003 is still possible until Wednesday June
4th, 2003 (23.59h CEST).
On behalf of the WLN team,
Matthias Frank, Uni Bonn
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WLN 2003
Third International
Workshop on Wireless Local Networks
http://wln2003.cs.bonn.edu/
Bonn/Königswinter, Germany
To be held in conjunction with
The 28th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks
(LCN 2003) October 20-24, 2003
(please also visit http://lcn2003.cs.bonn.edu/ and
http://www.ieeelcn.org/) ieeeCS logo
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Wireless networking technologies are increasingly penetrating into
everyday life. Examples of successful technologies such as the IEEE
802.11 family of Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) protocols, and
Bluetooth for Personal Area Networks (WPANs), are intended to provide
the flexibility of forming networks in an ad hoc manner, without
access to any infrastructure, or by extending a pre-existing network
infrastructure, e.g. to provide access to a wired campus LAN and/or
the Internet. Recent developments also foresee WLAN technologies to be
a complement to third generation mobile communication networks. The
use of WLAN as radio access network in hot spot areas is seen as an
approach to increasing network capacity, handling a larger number of
users.
Wireless mobile devices, on the other hand, are encountered in nearly
universal use - that is, at home, at work, on the road - to access the
Internet and to provide data services in general. This leads to a
growing expectation from users to be able to access information
anytime anywhere. Wireless networks have thus become increasingly
important to satisfy the end user demand for mobile and pervasive
computing.
WLN 2003, the 3rd Workshop on Wireless Local Networks, will be a
one-day workshop, held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on
Local Computer Networks (LCN). The workshop will bring together
networking researchers, engineers, and practitioners with participants
from industry, academia, and government.
Based on the success of the preceding workshops, we are interested in
visionary, experimental, systems-related and work in-progress papers
in the area of local and personal wireless, mobile, ad hoc and home
networking. Papers should describe original, previously unpublished
work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or
journal.
Topics of interest:
(include but are not limited to)
* Wireless LAN and PAN media access techniques and protocols
* Energy efficiency in protocol and systems design
* Mobility management in wireless networks
* User mobility models and workloads
* Wireless environment simulation modelling
* Location dependant/personalised wireless applications
* Security issues in WLANs/WPANs
* Ad hoc networking
* Ad hoc routing protocols and algorithms
* Transport protocols for ad hoc networks
* Self configuration for ad hoc networks
* Mobile ad hoc computing platforms and testbeds
* Wireless ad-hoc network simulation techniques
* Interoperability issues between wireless standards/protocols and
the Internet
* Performance of Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 networks
* Multiple wireless protocol coexistence issues
* Quality of Service issues in local wireless networks
* Wireless multimedia network architectures and protocols
* Resource allocation in wireless LANs
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Keynote:
"WLAN Security Threats & Solutions" by Franjo Majstor, Cisco Systems
Abstract:
This session will give an overview of the latest trends in 802.11
based WLAN technology. Starting from the threat model and security
problems in the 802.11 protocol design it will describe the proposed
industry solutions and the results of the latest IETF and IEEE
standardization efforts for solving security problems in various WLAN
environments.
About the speaker:
Franjo Majstor, EMEA Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems, Brussels, Belgium
Franjo Majstor holds an University Graduate Engineering degree from
University of Zagreb, Croatia and Master of Science degree which he
obtained on subject "IPsec Extensions" from Faculty of Computer
Sciences at KUL University of Leuven, Belgium. He started his industry
carreer back in 1990, joined Cisco Systems in 1995 where he is
currently working out of Brussels office.
In his role of EMEA technical consultant, he is focusing on security
and VPN related technologies and is involved as a trusted adviser in
designs of major security network related projects in Europe, Middle
East and Africa. He holds a CISSP (Certified Information Systems
Security Professional) certification from ISC2 (International
Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium) and CCIE
(Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert) in security and access
certifications from Cisco Systems and is a member of several
professional assisiations inluding CSI (Computer Security Insititute),
ISSA (Information System Security Association), IEEE and IETF.
About Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the
Internet. Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions
are the foundation of the Internet and most corporate, education, and
government networks around the world. Cisco provides the broadest line
of secure solutions for transporting data, voice and video within
buildings, across campuses, or around the world.
Cisco Systems chairs the IEEE 802.11i task group on MAC Enhancements
for Enhanced Security (Dave Halasz), which is working on producing a
standard that will further improve Wireless LAN security (for more
info see the TG-info web page ). Furthermore, Cisco participates in
the IEEE 802.11e task group on MAC Enhancements for Quality of
Service.
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Paper Submission:
Authors are invited to submit papers of up to ten camera-ready pages,
in PDF or PostScript format, for presentation at the workshop. All
papers must include title, complete contact information (including
e-mail addresses) for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover
page. Clearly indicate the corresponding author. Papers must be
submitted by email to the workshop at wln2003@informatik.uni-bonn.de.
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: May 25, 2003
Notification of acceptance: July 04, 2003
Camera-ready paper due: July 25, 2003
Author registration deadline: July 25, 2003
Notification of acceptance is tentatively scheduled not later than
July 04, 2003, and final camera-ready papers will be due from authors
by July 25, 2003.
Note: Formatting instructions for papers submitted to the WLN Workshop
are the same as for full papers at LCN 2003. More information is
available from the previous LCN 2002, see
http://lcn2002.cs.bonn.edu/formatinstru.html.
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Workshop & Program Co-Chairs:
Dr. Matthias Frank
Institute of Computer Science IV
University of Bonn, Germany
matthew@cs.bonn.edu
Tel.: +49-228-734550
Dr. Azzedine Boukerche
Dept. of Computing Science
University of North Texas, USA
boukerche@cs.unt.edu
Tel.: +1-940-565-4869
Standing Committee:
Dr. Hossam Hassanein
Dept. of Computing and Information Science
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
hossam@cs.queensu.ca
Dr. Ioanis Nikolaidis
Dept. of Computing Science
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
yannis@cs.ualberta.ca
Program Committee:
(as of 20.02.2003)
* N. Asokan, Nokia, Finland
* Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA
* Benny Bing, Georgia Tech, USA
* Azzedine Boukerche, University of North of Texas, USA (Program
Co-Chair)
* Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA
* Samir R. Das, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
* Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada
* Matthias Frank, University of Bonn, Germany (Program Chair)
* Michael Gerharz, University of Bonn, Germany
* Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA
* Janelle Harms, University of Alberta, Canada
* Abdelsalam Helal, University of Florida, USA
* Sungbum Hong, University of North of Texas, USA
* Young-Bae Ko, Ajou University, Korea
* Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, USA
* Jogesh K. Muppala, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Hong Kong
* George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Greece
* Ahmed Safwat, Queen's University, Canada
* Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil
* David Simplot, LIFL, University of Lille, France
* Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
* Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada
* Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Northeastern University, USA
* Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada
* Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada
* Guoliang Xue, Arizona State University, USA
* Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, Italy
* Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
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