In response to many requests, the ASWN 2004 deadline has been extended to
MARCH 10, 2004.



FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 

ASWN 2004 - 4th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless
Networks

Boston, Massachusetts 
August 9-11, 2004


ASWN 2004 is the fourth workshop on Applications and Services in
Wireless Networks. The previous events were held in France and
Switzerland, and in 2004 the workshop will take place in the United
States for the first time.

ASWN 2004, which will be held in Boston, aims at investigating new
developments in wireless networks focusing on applications and services.
The workshop will provide three-day presentations of invited and regular
papers from academia and industry. Authors are invited to submit full
technical papers on both theoretical and practical aspects of leveraging
wireless and mobile environments. Tutorial proposals are also requested.


TOPICS 

Specific areas of interest in Applications and Services in Wireless
Networks include, but are not limited to, the following topics: 

Media Distribution over Wireless Networks 
New Data Services for Wireless Networks 
Audio-visual Applications for Home and Business 
Inter Domain and Inter System Mobility 
QoS Profiling and Pricing, end-to-end QoS 
Security and AAA Aspects 
Nomadic Services, Interface Management 
Mobile ad-hoc Networks, Multihop Wireless Networks 
Wireless Local Loop Technologies 
Wireless Personal Area Networks 
Software Radios 
Enabling Technologies and Architectures, 3G and beyond 
Service Development, Validation & Testing 
Service Creation and Discovery 
Location-based Services 
Middleware for Mobile Applications and Services 
Mobile Multimedia 
Performance of Mobile/Wireless Networks and Systems 
Mobile Service Interworking 
Context and Ambient Awareness 
Cooperative Networks 


PAPERS

Prospective authors are invited to submit for review, papers that
neither have been previously published nor are under review by another
conference or journal. Priority will be given to original contributions
describing recent and innovative research results or developments in the
scope of the workshop. 

Papers must be written in English, using font no smaller than 10 points
and not to exceed 10 pages. Only PDF and PostScript formats will be
accepted, and all submissions will be handled electronically. Further
details on submission procedures will be described soon on the workshop
main page http://csr.bu.edu/aswn2004/ under Submission Instructions.


TUTORIALS

Proposals for tutorials including content description and CV of the
presenter should be sent to the Technical Program Chair. 


IMPORTANT DEADLINES 

Full paper submission: March 1, 2004
Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2004
Camera ready due: May 7, 2004


ORGANIZATION 

The workshop will be organized by the Web and InterNetworking Group
(WING) from the Computer Science Department at Boston University. The
workshop will be held on the BU campus and appropriate facilities will
be made available for the participants. The technical co-sponsorship of
IEEE is pending.
 

STEERING COMMITTEE

Hossam Afifi, INT, France
Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA
Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA
Djamal Zeghlache, INT, France


GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburg, USA
                   Azer Bestavros, Boston University, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIR: Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR: Liang Guo, Motorola Labs, USA


TECHNICAL COMMITTEE (to be completed)

Hossam Afifi, Inst. Nat. des Telecom, France
Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech, USA
Eitan Altman, INRIA, France
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
Andrew Campbell, Columbia University, USA
Mark Corner, University of Massachusetts, USA
Jeremy Elson, UCLA, USA
Nada Golmie, NIST, USA
Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USA
Marwan Krunz, University of Arizona, USA
Whay Lee, Motorola Labs, USA
Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, USa
Eytan Modiano, MIT, USA
Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece
Lixia Zhang, UCLA