- Notification of Final Extension - 

Due to further requests, the deadline for full submission has
been extended to August the 13th, 2004.

"Internet Compatible QoS in Ad hoc Wireless Networks"
IC-QAWN
http://www.cs.queensu.ca/~trl/ICQAWN 

in Conjunction with

The 3rd ACS/IEEE International Conference on
Computer Systems and Applications - January 2005
AICCSA-05
http://engr.smu.edu/cse/AICCSA-05/ 

January 3-6, 2005, Cairo, Egypt 

As everyday the realization of 4th generation wireless networks 
becomes more conceivable at various levels, questions arise as 
to how various wireless heterogeneities might be overcome. For
different access technologies, the Internet has been taken as the 
unifying framework for interconnectivity and inherent mobility and 
resource management functionalities. Recently, serious attention
has been given extending and utilizing Internet connectivity and
QoS for ad hoc networks. Naturally, paradigm QoS techniques
(IntServ & RSVP, DiffServ, MPLS) cannot be readily applied to
ad hoc networks. Hence the need for QoS techniques compatible 
with traditional Internet QoS while maintaining realistic 
considerations for the characteristics of ad hoc networks.  


Call for Papers

Scope

In a wireless ad hoc network hosts are brought together to form a 
network on the fly. Inherently, there is a lack for QoS-aware 
protocols. Currently, two operational quality of service (QoS) 
models are proposed for the Internet: Integrated Services (IntServ) 
aided with Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), and Differentiated 
Services (DiffServ). The IntServ model aims to guarantee the QoS in 
a manner of end-to-end fine granularity, but its scalability is 
impaired by the need to maintain per-flow state at each core router. 
The DiffServ model attempts to resolve the scalability problem by 
replacing the per-flow service with an aggregate-class, per hop 
service, while pushing the per-flow state management to edge routers.
Extending such QoS paradigms to wireless ad hoc networks is an 
important step towards achieving all-IP networking. A major challenge 
facing the extension of Internet QoS models over ad hoc networks is 
the very characteristic of such networks: a) Variable topology, 
resulting from nodal mobility in addition to the unreliable link 
properties caused by frequent packet collisions and signal 
interference and fading; b) Limited battery power and c) Device 
heterogeneity, in terms of platform, processing, mobility and 
battery power. 


We seek papers addressing Intserv and DiffServ compatible QoS in 
wireless ad hoc networks. 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: 
QoS admission control 
Adaptive QoS 
Bandwidth reservation schemes 
RSVP extensions to ad hoc networks 
Queue management and scheduling algorithms 
Extensions to DiffServ Per hop behavior 
Wireless MPLS 
Resource adaptation and system optimization for multimedia 
services 
Dynamic bandwidth management 
QoS-aware medium access protocols 
IEEE 802.11 QoS extensions 
Power-aware techniques and protocols 
Cross-layer designs 
TCP extensions 
Mobility management 
Delay and jitter management 
Congestion and flow control 
Performance evaluation 
Implementation and test-bed experiments 


Important Dates

Paper submission: August 13, 2004 (Final Extension!)
Author notification: September 10, 2004 
Final manuscript due: September 30, 2004


Program Co-Chairs

Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, hossam@cs.queensu.ca)
Ahmed Kamal (Iowa Statue University, kamal@iastate.edu)


Technical Program Committee 

Mokhtar Aboelaze (York University)
Jamal N. Al-Karaki (Iowa State University) 
Azzedine Boukerche (University of Ottawa)
Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo)
Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna)
Torsten Braun (University of Bern) 
Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines)
Jorge Cobb (The University of Texas at Dallas) 
Mahmoud El-Hadid (Cairo University) 
Ehab Elmallah (University of Alberta)
Khaled Elsayed (Cairo University)
Mohamed Eltoweissy (Virginia Tech)
Matthias Frank (University of Bonn) 
Muhammad Jaseemuddin (Ryerson University)
Salil Kanhere (University of New South Wales)
Jelena Misic (University of Manitoba)
Asis Nasipuri (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) 
Nidal Nasser (Queen's University)
Ioanis Nikolaidis (University of Alberta) 
Golden G. Richard III (University of New Orleans) 
Tarek Saadawi (City University of New York)
Krishna Sivalingam (University of Maryland Baltimore Country) 
Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa) 
Shahrokh Valaee (University of Toronto)
Kui Wu (University of Victoria) 
Chi-Hsiang Yeh (Queen's University)
Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Moustafa Youssef (University of Maryland) 
Albert Zomaya (The University of Sydney)

 
Registration, Accommodations and Local Information 

For information on registration, nearby hotel and 
accommodations and other local information, e.g. tourist attractions,
please refer to the main conference's website, 
http://engr.smu.edu/cse/AICCSA-05/. 


Inquiries
 
For further information regarding the workshop, please send all your
inquiries to icqawn_inq@cs.queensu.ca.