Call for Papers: International Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Wireless
Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Peer-to-Peer Networks
June 11^th- 12^th, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Sponsored by NSF.
Recent years saw a great amount of research in wireless networks,
especially wireless ad hoc networks. These works involve a number of
theoretical aspects of computer science, including approximation
algorithms, computational geometry, combinatorics, and distributed
algorithms. However, there are still many challenges in wireless ad
hoc networks. Due to the limited capability of processing power,
storage, and energy supply, many conventional algorithms are too
complicated to be implemented in wireless ad hoc networks. Some other
algorithms did not take advantage of the geometry nature of the
wireless networks. Additionally, most of the currently developed
algorithms for wireless networks assumed a precise position of each
wireless node, which is impossible practically. Majority of the
algorithms developed in this area also assume all nodes have uniform
transmission range. These algorithms will likely fail when nodes have
disparity transmission ranges. Furthermore, the wireless ad hoc
networks require efficient distributed algorithms with low computation
complexity and low communication complexity. These algorithms are
expected to take advantage of the geometry nature of the wireless ad
hoc networks. Several fundamental questions should be answered: can we
improve the performance of traditional distributed algorithms under
wireless ad hoc networks? Does the position information of wireless
nodes make difference in algorithms' performance? Much of the existing
work in wireless ad hoc networking also assumes that each individual
wireless node (possibly owned by selfish users) will follow prescribed
protocols without deviation. However, each user may modify the
behavior of an algorithm for self-interested reasons. How to achieve
desired global system performances when individual nodes are selfish?
We particularly solicit the papers addressing the following issues for
wireless, sensor, and P2P networks, but not limited to:
· MAC layer management and protocols;
· Power management;
· Topology Control;
· Network layer management;
· Network control and management;
· Routing protocols;
· Pricing policies in public networks;
· Service Provider;
· Rationality, incentives, microeconomics and self-interests;
· QoS pricing and billing;
· Analysis and simulation protocols
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of ACM Kluwer
Mobile Networks and Applications MONET.
Workshop Webpage: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~xli/workshop/
Important Dates
Manuscript Submission: April 30th, 2004
Acceptance Notification: May 30th, 2004
Workshop dates: June 11-12, 2004
Manuscript Due for invited papers: June 30th, 2004
Submission Guidelines
All manuscripts should be not longer than 12 pages using at least 10
fonts, including figures, tables and references. Each manuscript
should include the full list of authors with their affiliations,
e-mail addresses, and full postal addresses. Submissions also should
include an abstract no longer than 300 words, together with a list of
up to five keywords or phrases.
No article published in or currently submitted to other journals or
books or conferences or workshops can be considered for publication.
The authors should submit the paper in PDF or Postscript format to
Xiang-Yang Li at xli@cs.iit.edu according to the publication schedule.
The subject of the email should be "Workshop Submission". If email
submission is not possible, then six (6) hard copies of the paper
should be sent by the due date to the following address:
Xiang-Yang Li
Department of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
10 West 31^st Street
Chicago, IL 60616
All submitted papers would be reviewed following the standard
procedure.
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