WirelessCom 2005
Call for Papers
Symposium on Cooperative Networks
www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/WC05_CoNet
Sheraton Maui Resort, Kaanapali Beach,
Maui, Hawaii, USA,
June 13-16, 2005
Technical Sponsorship:
IEEE TCCC, TCPC, and SSCTC
Scope
Cooperative Networks are gaining increasing interest from the wireless
community as a means to allow mobile devices to communicate in networks
composed of heterogeneous technologies. A special Working Group on
Cooperative Networks (CoNets) has been established within the WWRF (Wireless
World Research Forum) to undertake these issues.
Seamless Communication. Heterogeneity in CoNets refers to service support,
user devices, network access, resource and mobility management, medium
access control, baseband algorithms, radio technology, and so on. In this
scenario, the main challenging goal is to allow a mobile user to seamlessly
communicate throughout multiple heterogeneous networks (cellular, wireless
and wired networks, including “moving” and “ad-hoc” networks), and to enjoy
multiparty multimedia applications while on the move between different
administrative domains.
Self-Organization & Cross-Layer Design. Certainly there are particular
cooperation and coordination problems found in CoNets that significantly
differ from those in more traditional domains. The future cooperative
network is, in fact, expected to self-organize dynamically in an optimum
manner in order to offer seamless services with agreed quality to users and
devices irrespective of location and network connection. This implies
careful optimization across the entire protocol stack. Ideally, cooperative
connectivity shall be transparent to the various transport technologies used
among nodes in the network.
New APIs. Relations between cooperative networks are expected to be
established dynamically, always providing a securely protected environment
to users. Mobile terminals should be able to discover candidates available
networks, therefore new APIs should enable applications to detect available
access networks and learn their characteristics, thus becoming aware of
location, context, and QoS.
Cooperative Networking. Special kinds of wireless networks included in
CoNets are the so-called “moving networks” (NEMO), consisting of one or more
mobile routers with connected devices changing their point of attachment to
other networks while physically moving or changing topology. New resource
management schemes for cooperative heterogeneous wireless access networks
are required.
Cooperative Access Control & PHY Technologies. Furthermore, recently, the
idea of using a mobile station as a relay between a source and a destination
node is making CoNets a new diversity enabler. Cooperating users transmit
their own information towards the destination node as well as optimally
processed relaying information from other users. In this way, CoNets also
offer a viable fading countermeasure and a shadowing alleviation means. The
increased traffic requires entirely novel mechanisms at the MAC, as well as
new approaches to distributed coding and transceiver design.
Topics of Interest
Original papers are invited in the area of interoperability between
different wireless networks and fixed-wireless co-operation. Papers must
represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to, the following areas of Cooperative
Networks:
Architectural Principles Multi-Access Capability
Multiple Service Support Radio Access Technologies
Network Control and Maintenance Resource Management
Mobility Management Cooperative & Distributed Relaying
QoS Provisioning Ambient Network Technologies
Security Cognitive Networks
Naming & Addressing User devices
Moving Networks Cooperative Processing
Ad-hoc Networking and Internetworking Cooperative Sensor Environments
Multihop Routing Self-Organizing Networks
Submission Guidelines
All papers are limited to 6 pages and must be in standard IEEE double-column
format. All submissions must be sent by email to the symposium co-chairs.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2005
Camera-Ready Papers: May 1, 2005
Co-Chairs
Antonella Molinaro Mischa Dohler Andrej Stefanov
University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria - Italy
CTR, King’s College London - UK
Polytechnic University, New York - USA
antonella.molinaro@ing.unirc.it
michael.dohler@kcl.ac.uk
stefanov@duke.poly.edu
Technical Program Committee
Hamid Aghvami, UK
Paul Anghel, USA
Sergio Barbarossa, Italy
Daniel Beimborn, Germany
Aggelos Bletsas, USA
Helmut Bolcskei, Switzerland
Antonio Capone, Italy
Carla Chiasserini, Italy
Tolga Duman, USA
Gianluigi Ferrari, Italy
Ramon Ferrus, Spain
Gerhard Fettweis, Germany
Javier R. Fonollosa, Spain
Vasilis Friderikos, UK
Hesham El Gamal, USA
Michael Gastpar, USA
Antoni Gelonch, Spain
Monisha Ghosh, USA
Georgios Giannakis, USA
Roger Hammons Jr, USA
Patrick Herhold, Germany
Jadwiga Indulska, Australia
Antonis Kalis, Greece
Mos Kaveh, USA
Hong-Yon Lach, France
Nicholas Laneman, USA
Geert Leus, Netherlands
Yonghui Li, Australia
Youjian Liu, USA
Fabio Massacci, Italy
Gianluca Mazzini, Italy
Rohit Nabar, USA
Ian Oppermann, Finland
Ashutosh Sabharwal, USA
Cem Saraydar, USA
Ali H. Sayed, USA
Anna Scaglione, USA
Andreas Schieder, Germany
Hans-Peter Schwefel, Denmark
Sergio Servetto, USA
Yantai Shu, China
Rahim Tafazoli, UK
Vahid Tarokh, USA
Sirin Tekinay, USA
Ozan Tonguz, USA
Sami Uskela, Finland
Matthew Valenti, USA
Mahesh Varanasi, USA
Josep Vidal, Spain
Branimir Vojcic, USA
Tim Weitzel, Germany
Hyunsoo Yoon, Korea
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