CFP : Fourth International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks WLN 2004, to be held in conjunction with the 29th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks LCN 2004

CFP : Fourth International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks WLN 2004, to be held in conjunction with the 29th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks LCN 2004
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Submission of papers for WLN 2004 is still possible until Monday June 21st (23.59h CEST). Please use the online submission system to upload your paper. On behalf of the WLN team, Azzedine Boukerche & Matthias Frank ----------------------------------------- WLN 2004 Fourth International IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks Tampa, Florida To be held in conjunction with The 29th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2004) November 16-18, 2004 (please also visit http://www.ieeelcn.org/) Keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer _________________________________________________________________ WLN 2004, the 4th international IEEE 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 Papers should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal.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 _________________________________________________________________ Keynote: Latest news: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer has accepted to give a keynote presentation at WLN 2004 in the area of "wireless ad hoc networks", pointing out the latest trends in ad hoc networking and also addressing visionary issues heading into the future! Further details like title and abstract of the presentation will be published as they become available. About the speaker: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara in 2000. Elizabeth's research focuses on mobile networking, specifically routing protocols, security, multimedia, and adaptability. Elizabeth is the author of numerous papers related to ad hoc networking and has served on many program committees for networking conferences. Elizabeth is currently the co-chair of the IRTF Ad hoc Network Scalability (ANS) Research Group and is also on the editorial board for the Elsevier Science Ad hoc Networks Journal. Elizabeth is also the recipient of a 2002 Technology Review 100 award, awarded to the world's top young investigators. She is a member of the IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, ACM, and ACM SIGMOBILE. See http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ebelding for further details. _________________________________________________________________ Paper Submission: Authors are invited to submit papers of up to eight (8) camera-ready pages (10 pt according to IEEE formatting instructions), 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. Please use our electronic submission system to submit your paper to WLN 2004: Visit http://wln2004.cs.bonn.edu/regist and carefully (!) follow the instructions given in the WWW forms and by E-Mail. If you should have problems or questions, please feel free to contact wln2004@cs.bonn.edu Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: Sunday, June 13, 2004 (23:59h CEST) Notification of acceptance: July 28, 2004 Author registration deadline: August 20, 2004 Camera-ready paper due: August 25, 2004 Notification of acceptance by e-mail is tentatively scheduled not later than July 28, 2004, and final camera-ready papers will be due from authors by August 25, 2004. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the workshop/LCN conference by August 20, 2004, in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation. Note: Formatting instructions for papers submitted to the WLN Workshop are almost the same as for full papers at the LCN conference (in 2004: full paper = 8 pages). More information is available from the previous LCN conferences, e.g. see http://lcn2002.cs.bonn.edu/formatinstru.html. _________________________________________________________________ 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 Canada Research Chair SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada boukerch@site.uottawa.ca Tel.: +1-972-315-1072 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 22.04.2004) * Huseyin Arslan, University of South Florida, USA * Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA * Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong * Benny Bing, Georgia Tech, USA * Azzedine Boukerche, University of North of Texas, USA * Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA * Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA * Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia * Song Ci, University of Michigan-Flint, USA * Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada * Matthias Frank, University of Bonn, Germany * Michael Gerharz, University of Bonn, Germany * Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA * Sungbum Hong, Jackson State University, USA * Holger Karl, Technical University of Berlin, Germany * Wayne Li, University of Toledo, USA * Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada * Jogesh K. Muppala, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong * Nidal Nasser, Queen's University, Canada * Mohamed Ould-Khoua, University of Glasgow, UK * Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil * David Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, France * Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada * Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada * Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada * Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece * Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada * Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada * Yang Xiao, University of Memphis, USA * Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia * Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, Italy _________________________________________________________________ Information from prior WLN workshops: * WLN 2003, held on October 21, 2003, in Bonn/Königswinter, Germany. _________________________________________________________________ Questions or comments about the page can be directed to webmaster@web.cs.bonn.edu. - 23.04.2004 -

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Submission of papers for WLN 2004 is still possible until Monday June 21st
(23.59h CEST). Please use the online submission system to upload your paper.

On behalf of the WLN team,
   Azzedine Boukerche & Matthias Frank 
-----------------------------------------

WLN 2004
Fourth International
IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks

Tampa, Florida

   To be held in conjunction with
   The 29th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2004)
   November 16-18, 2004
   (please also visit http://www.ieeelcn.org/)

Keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer

     _________________________________________________________________

   WLN 2004, the 4th international IEEE 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
     _________________________________________________________________

Keynote:

Latest news:

   Prof. Dr. Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer has accepted to give a keynote
   presentation at WLN 2004 in the area of "wireless ad hoc networks",
   pointing out the latest trends in ad hoc networking and also
   addressing visionary issues heading into the future!

   Further details like title and abstract of the presentation will be
   published as they become available.

About the speaker:
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, University of California, Santa
Barbara

   Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer is an Assistant Professor in the Department
   of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
   She completed her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC
   Santa Barbara in 2000.

   Elizabeth's research focuses on mobile networking, specifically
   routing protocols, security, multimedia, and adaptability. Elizabeth
   is the author of numerous papers related to ad hoc networking and has
   served on many program committees for networking conferences.
   Elizabeth is currently the co-chair of the IRTF Ad hoc Network
   Scalability (ANS) Research Group and is also on the editorial board
   for the Elsevier Science Ad hoc Networks Journal. Elizabeth is also
   the recipient of a 2002 Technology Review 100 award, awarded to the
   world's top young investigators. She is a member of the IEEE, IEEE
   Communications Society, ACM, and ACM SIGMOBILE.

   See http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ebelding for further details.
     _________________________________________________________________

Paper Submission:

   Authors are invited to submit papers of up to eight (8) camera-ready
   pages (10 pt according to IEEE formatting instructions), 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.

   Please use our electronic submission system to submit your paper to
   WLN 2004: Visit http://wln2004.cs.bonn.edu/regist and carefully (!)
   follow the instructions given in the WWW forms and by E-Mail.

   If you should have problems or questions, please feel free to contact
   wln2004@cs.bonn.edu

   Important Dates:
   Paper submission deadline:                                   
   Sunday, June 13, 2004 (23:59h CEST)
   Notification of acceptance:                                  
   July 28, 2004
   Author registration deadline:                                
   August 20, 2004
   Camera-ready paper due:                                      
   August 25, 2004

   Notification  of  acceptance  by  e-mail  is tentatively scheduled not
   later  than  July  28, 2004, and final camera-ready papers will be due
   from  authors  by August 25, 2004. The authors of accepted papers must
   guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. At least
   one  author  of  each  accepted  paper  must  be  registered  for  the
   workshop/LCN conference by August 20, 2004, in order for that paper to
   appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation.

   Note: Formatting instructions for papers submitted to the WLN Workshop
   are almost the same as for full papers at the LCN conference (in 2004:
   full paper = 8 pages). More information is available from the previous
   LCN conferences, e.g. see
   http://lcn2002.cs.bonn.edu/formatinstru.html.
     _________________________________________________________________

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
   Canada Research Chair
   SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada
   boukerch@site.uottawa.ca
   Tel.: +1-972-315-1072

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 22.04.2004)

     * Huseyin Arslan, University of South Florida, USA
     * Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA
     * Brahim  Bensaou,  Hong  Kong University of Science and Technology,
       Hong Kong
     * Benny Bing, Georgia Tech, USA
     * Azzedine Boukerche, University of North of Texas, USA
     * Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA
     * Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA
     * Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia
     * Song Ci, University of Michigan-Flint, USA
     * Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada
     * Matthias Frank, University of Bonn, Germany
     * Michael Gerharz, University of Bonn, Germany
     * Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA
     * Sungbum Hong, Jackson State University, USA
     * Holger Karl, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
     * Wayne Li, University of Toledo, USA
     * Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
     * Jogesh K. Muppala, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
       Hong Kong
     * Nidal Nasser, Queen's University, Canada
     * Mohamed Ould-Khoua, University of Glasgow, UK
     * Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil
     * David Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, France
     * Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
     * Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada
     * Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
     * Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece
     * Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada
     * Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada
     * Yang Xiao, University of Memphis, USA
     * Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
     * Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, Italy
     _________________________________________________________________

Information from prior WLN workshops:

     * WLN 2003, held on October 21, 2003, in Bonn/Königswinter, Germany.
     _________________________________________________________________

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