***** Submission deadline: March 15, 2005. *****
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******** ConWiN 2005 ********
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**** First International Workshop on ****
** Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks **
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* July 10, 2005 in Budapest, Hungary *
* in Conjunction with WICON 2005 *
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* http://www.ConWiN.org *
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* CALL FOR PAPERS *
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Scope of ConWiN 2005:
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The advances in the wireless communication technologies have enabled
the realization of wide range of heterogeneous wireless networks from
wireless local area networks (WLANs), several generations (2G/3G) of
wireless cellular networks to mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) and
wireless sensor networks (WSN). This technological evolution is
further inspiring researchers to envision the next generation wireless
networking architectures and even the space Internet.
Next Generation Wireless Internet (NGWI) will be the convergence of
these heterogeneous wireless networks and the next generation Internet
to provide mobile users with a wide range of high resource demanding
services such as high speed reliable data and real-time multimedia
delivery. While the unique characteristics of each of these wireless
networks pose diverse set of challenges, their integration severely
expands the set of open research problems for seamless, efficient, and
reliable communication. Therefore, there exists an urgent need for a
significant research effort to focus on solving these new challenges
posed by the integration and the convergence of these wireless
heterogeneous networks.
The objective of ConWiN 2005 is to provide a research platform where
researchers bring their contributions to light by presenting their
technical papers on the issues regarding the integration and the
convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks. Papers solicited in
ConWiN 2005 spans a wide range of areas of interest including but
not limited to:
- Physical layer issues for the convergence of heterogeneous wireless
communication technologies
- Novel and adaptive communication protocols at all layers, i.e.,
MAC layer problems, routing, reliable and multimedia transport, for
integration of diverse wireless systems such as WLANs, 3G, and WSNs
- Novel and practical communication architectures for the convergence
of heterogeneous wireless networks
- Efficient mobility/handoff management protocols for seamless roaming
within the converged communication architecture
- Killer applications/services for the convergence towards the NGWI
- Security, authentication, and billing solutions for the converged
architecture
Important Dates:
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Submission deadline : March 15, 2005
Notification of acceptance : May 1, 2005
Camera-ready version : May 15, 2005
Workshop Date : July 10, 2005
Submission Details:
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The workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not
been previously published and are not currently under review by
another conference or journal.
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of no more than
12 pages of IEEE double column format. Manuscript submission should be
done electronically via e-mail by sending a pdf version of the
manuscript to conwin@eee.metu.edu.tr
Papers of particular merit will also be published in Computer Networks
Journal (Elsevier).
Organization Committee :
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Workshop Chair:
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Ozgur Baris Akan, Middle East Technical University, TURKEY
TPC Co-Chairs:
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Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA
Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA
Publicity Chair:
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Jiang (Linda) Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
For more information about the workshop, see http://www.conwin.org/
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