CALL FOR PAPERS

                    WONS 2004
     First International Working Conference on
      Wireless On-demand Network Systems
       (sponsorship by IFIP WG 6.3 and 6.8
               is pending for approval)

             http://dit.unitn.it/wons/
                 wons@dit.unitn.it

Madonna di Campiglio (Italy)
January 21-23, 2004

Wireless LANs are enjoying a growing interest at all levels: research,
application, business. The explosive growth of IEEE802.11b (Wi-Fi), the
ongoing change of spectrum management policies and the technology boost
making wireless wideband a reality are bringing high bandwidth wireless
connectivity to the masses. Connectivity and networking built "on-demand",
where and when they are needed in an evolutionary and incremental fashion
with limited investments, is spawning new research and business
opportunities, offering unprecedented possibilities to support working
communities and ubiquitous, cooperative computing.

Many aspects of the current wireless LANs growth resemble the rapid, and in
part anarchic and unexpected, evolution of the wired Internet. The road is
traced and enthusiasm is mounting but many challenges have to be solved
before providing seamless communication, reliable quality, secure high
bandwidth connectivity, and useful services.

The conference will concentrate on new research issues open in the "wireless
Internet" context, including design, modelling and performance evaluation,
pricing and profitability models, QoS models and practical implementation.
Sound experimental evaluation of new techniques will also be considered.

The meeting will take place in one of the finest winter resorts of the Alps,
Madonna di Campiglio, in the Trentino region. The cozy atmosphere of the
conference hotel, facing one of the most spectacular panoramas in the Alps,
will facilitate concentration and creativity.

The schedule of the meeting will consist of presentations in the morning and
in the afternoon/evening. A pause after lunch will allow social activities
and informal interaction among the participants.


Topics comprise, but are not limited to:

- Wireless access to the Internet
- Modelling and performance evaluation of wireless LANs
- Quality of service and pricing ("charging for quality")
- Traffic and user activity models
- Service differentiation mechanisms
- Virtual operators in WiFi networks
- Pervasive / ubiquitous computing
- Location and context-awareness
- Wireless LANs design
- Management, authentication, authorization and accounting
- On-Demand, Ad-Hoc Networks

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Keynote speech:
  "Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Protocols and Applications"
  Mario Gerla, Computer Science Department, UCLA

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Negotiation is in progress with Springer to publish the Conference
Proceedings in the series "Lecture Notes in Computer Science".

Extended versions of the best papers will be considered for
publication on a special issue of MONET (Kluwer/ACM Mobile
Networks and Applications) dedicated to the conference.

A Best Paper Award will be assigned at the conference.

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Important deadlines:
- August 1st, 2003 (Hard Deadline):
    Electronic Full Paper Submission
- September 30, 2003: Acceptance Notification
- October 15, 2003: Final Version Due

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General Chair:
   Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy

Local Organization Chairs:
   Sandro Pera, University of Trento, Italy
   Alessandro Villani, University of Trento, Italy

Publicity Chairs:
   Mauro Brunato, University of Trento, Italy

Program Committee Chairs:
   Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy
   Enrico Conti, CNR Pisa, Italy

Technical Program Committee:
   Arup Acharya, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA
   Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
   Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
   Roberto Battiti, University of Trento, Italy
   Dr. Hendrik Berndt, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe
   Alan Albert Bertossi, University of Bologna, Italy
   Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Palermo, Italy
   Ernst Biersack, Eurecom, France
   Maurizio Bonuccelli, University of Pisa, Italy
   Dragan Boscovic, Motorola Research Center of Paris, France
   Andrew T. Campbell, Columbia University, USA
   Imrich Chlamtac, University of Trento, Italy
   A. Chockalingam, IIS, Bangalore, India
   Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
   Szabó Csaba, BME, Budapest, Hungary
   Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
   Marco Conti, CNR of Pisa, Italy
   Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
   Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece
   Domenico Ferrari, Università Cattolica of Piacenza, Italy
   Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
   Silvia Giordano, SUPSI of Lugano, Switzerland
   Enrico Gregori, CNR of Pisa, Italy
   Parviz Kermani, IBM - T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
   Demetres D. Kouvatsos, University of Bradford, UK
   Kin K. Leung, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
   Bo Li, University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong, China
   Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy
   Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., KTH, Sweden
   Petri H. Mähönen, RWTH Aachen, Germany
   Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
   Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy
   Björn Pehrson, KTH, Sweden
   Gian Paolo Rossi, University of Milano, Italy
   M. Yahya "Medy" Sanadidi, UCLA, USA
   Puneet Sharma, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
   Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece
   Salvatore Tucci, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
   Bernhard Walke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany
   Menzo Wentink, Intersil, The Nedtherlands
   Adam Wolisz, TU Berlin, Germany
   Hidetoshi Yokota, KDDI R&D Laboratories, Japan
   Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, Italy