CALL FOR PAPERS
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                          RAWNET
   Workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks
                   http://www.rawnet.org

               In conjunction with WiOpt 2005
                  April 3, Trentino, Italy


This workshop focuses on models and techniques for addressing resource
allocation problems in wireless networks. Resource management in wireless
environments is extremely complex due to the specific characteristics of
wireless communications, such as user mobility, interference, the
intrinsically scarce bandwidth, and the highly variable and unpredictable
propagation conditions. These features present a vast range of novel and
fundamental challenges as wireless networks evolve to support an expanding
variety of data applications. In particular, data streams have drastically
different traffic characteristics and Quality-of-Service requirements from
voice services, urging a radical overhaul of voice-centric air-interface and
resource allocation paradigms. In addition, existing congestion control
protocols for data flows like TCP were originally designed for wireline
networks, and are not well-suited to wireless links which are inherently
slow and error-prone. A further dimension of complexity stems from the
growing diversity in network architectures, as wireless LAN's and ad hoc
networks rapidly proliferate, giving rise to a wide spectrum of pricing and
routing issues.

Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

    * air-interface scheduling
    * cross-layer design
    * dimensioning, provisioning and traffic engineering
    * load balancing and routing
    * models and techniques for optimization of wireless networks
    * performance evaluation methods for wireless networks
    * power control and energy-efficient communication
    * pricing and incentive schemes in ad hoc networks

Important Dates
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Submission deadline:    December 17, 2004
Notification date:      February 11, 2005
Camera-ready due:       February 26, 2005


Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE double-column standard
format with 11 pt font size. The maximum length of the manuscript is 6
pages. This limit includes figures, appendix, bibliography, etc. Papers must
be submitted in PDF. Paper submission is managed by the EDAS system:
http://edas.info. If you do not have an EDAS account, please create one
first.

Program Chairs
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Sem Borst <mailto:sem@research.bell-labs.com>
           Bell Labs, Lucent (USA) and CWI (The Netherlands)

Alexandre Proutiere <mailto:alexandre.proutiere@rd.francetelecom.com>
           France Telecom R&D, France


Technical Program Committee
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Rajeev Agrawal          Motorola, USA
Chris Blondia           University of Antwerp, Belgium
Thomas Bonald           France Telecom R&D, France
Richard Boucherie       University of Twente, The Netherlands
Costas Courcoubetis     Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Piyush Gupta            Bell Labs, Lucent, USA
Riku Jantti             University of Vaasa, Finland
Leonidas Georgiadis     CERTH, Greece
Sindo Nunez Queija      CWI, The Netherlands
Phuoc Tran Gia          University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Venu Veeravalli         University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Harish Viswanathan      Bell Labs, Lucent, USA
Phil Whiting            Bell Labs, Lucent, USA