*** The submission deadline has been extended to March 31, 2005 due to
several requests ***
 
****************** CALL FOR PAPERS ****************** 

 

International Symposium on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (ISHWN)

http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/nasser/conferences/HWN05/index.htm

 

Part of WirelessCom 2005   http://sa1.sice.umkc.edu/wc05/

 

June 13-16, 2005. Maui, Hawaii, USA.

 

Scope:

The wireless networking scene is dominated by three distinct networking
platforms: (a) Cellular networks, passed through multiple generations - 1G,
2G and 3G; (b) Wireless LANs, championed by the IEEE 802.11 WiFi (Wireless
Fidelity) networks; and (c) multi-hop/ad hoc variable topology networks,
where portable devices are brought together to form a network on the fly. The
vision for 4G wireless networks and beyond is the support of the co-existence
and interoperability of heterogeneous wireless networks with varying QoS
requirements. Research in this area will help service providers develop
strategies to optimally deploy heterogeneous networks. In this context, many
technical challenges need to be resolved such as those associated with
seamless handovers across different wireless networks, security, billing,
network selection, consistent provision of quality of service, etc.

 

In this symposium, we intend to address and discuss the technical challenges,
ideas, views, and research results in heterogeneous wireless networks.

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    * Interworking with 2.5G, 3G, and other wireless networks
    * QoS provisioning for heterogeneous wireless networks
    * End-to-End QoS Architectures
    * Location, Mobility and Handoff Management
    * Seamless vertical handoff techniques between different wireless networks
    * Network selection criteria
    * Resource management/allocation
    * Bandwidth adaptation
    * Power control and management
    * Load, admission, and flow control
    * Architecture design alternatives for heterogeneous wireless networks
    * Performance analysis and experimentation of heterogeneous wireless networks
    * Pricing and billing issues
    * Security techniques and methods for heterogeneous wireless networks
    * Heterogeneous wireless networks applications and measurements
    * Simulation study of heterogeneous wireless networks
    * Scalability of heterogeneous wireless networks
    * Implementation and testbed experiments
    * Standardization activities for heterogeneous wireless networks

 

Submission guidelines:

All papers are limited to 6 pages and must be in standard IEEE double-column
format. Papers must be original, have not been published elsewhere, and are
not currently under review for another conference or journal. Papers should
be submitted via the paper management site:
https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/WirelessCom2005 . Submissions should
include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, fax and telephone
numbers and e-mail addresses. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least
three reviewers. At least one of the authors of accepted papers must register
and attend the conference.

Papers of particular merit will be proposed for publication in a Special
Issue of the “Elsevier Computer Communications Journal”
(http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/525440/description#description),
on “Heterogeneous Wireless Networks”.

Schedule:

Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2005 (extended deadline)

Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2005

Final manuscript due: May 1, 2005

  

Symposium Organizing Committee:

 

Co-Chairs:

Hossam Hassanein

Queen's University, Canada

hossam@cs.queensu.ca

 

Nidal Nasser
University of Guelph, Canada

nasser@cis.uoguelph.ca

 

Boon Sain Yeo

Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

boonyeo@ieee.org

 

Vice Chair:

 

Maggie Cheng

University of Missouri-Rolla, USA

chengm@umr.edu

 

Technical Program Committee:

Khalid Al-Begain, University of Glamorgan, UK
Alagan Anpalagan, Ryerson University, Canada
Hakim Badis, University of Paris XI, France
Azzedine Boukerch, University of Ottawa, Canada
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jorge A. Cobb, University of Texas-Dallas, USA
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Matthias Frank, University of Bonn, Germany
Javier Gozalvez, University Miguel Hernandez, Spain
Christian Hartmann, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany
Youssef Iraqi, University of Waterloo, Canada

Lijupco Jorguseski, TNO Information and Communication Technology, Netherlands
Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
Wei Li, The University of Toledo, USA
Haibin Lu, University of Missouri - Columbia, USA
Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Hussein Mouftah, University of Ottawa, Canada
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada
Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
Tarek Saadawi, City University of New York, City College, USA
Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Abd-Elhamid Taha, Queen's University, Canada
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece
Shahrokh Valaee, University of Toronto, Canada
Vincent Wong, University of British Columbia, Canada
Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada
Yang Xiao, University of Memphis, USA
Chi-Hsiang Yeh, Queen's University, Canada
Chi Zhang, Florida International University, USA
Jingyuan Zhang, University of Alabama, USA
Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia