Wireless Personal Area and Ad-hoc Networks

                                CALL FOR PAPERS

  Thirty-ninth Annual
  Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences

  January 4 - 7, 2006

  Hyatt Regency, Kauai

   Additional   detail   may   be   found  on  HICSS  primary  web  site:
   http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu

   Mirror         sites:         http://hicss.sepa.tudelft.nl/        and
   http://www.is.cityu.edu.hk/hicss/

  MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS

     * Dr. Frank Kargl, University of Ulm, Germany, 
       frank.kargl@informatik.uni-ulm.edu
     * Dr. Elaine Lawrence, University of Technology, Sydney,
       elaine@it.uts.edu.au
     * Prof. Gergely Záruba, University of Texas at Arlington, zaruba@uta.edu

  SCOPE OF MINITRACK

   This minitrack will cover both the area of Wireless Personal Area Networks
   (WPANs) and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs).

   Wireless personal area networks (WPANs) are short to very short-range (from
   a couple centimeters to a couple of meters) wireless networks that can be
   used to exchange information between devices in the reach of a person. WPANs
   can be used to replace cables between computers and their peripherals, to
   establish communities helping people do their everyday chores making them
   more productive, or to establish location aware services. Even today a
   growing percentage of PDAs, phones, laptops include WPAN technology and the
   number of small WPAN enabled devices (e.g., pens, cameras, headsets, various
   sensors)  might soon outnumber the computers on the Internet. The best
   example representing WPANs is the recent industry standard: Bluetooth, other
   examples include Spike (for real time gaming - proprietary technology), and
   the upcoming IEEE 802.15 standard.

   Despite the recent success of technologies like Bluetooth, the research work
   carried  out and presented e.g. at the recent WPAN minitracks at HICSS
   indicate that there exist a lot of problems e.g. in the inquiry process or
   in setting up larger Bluetooth networks that need to be addressed in future
   research.

   The construction of larger Bluetooth networks (so called Scatternets) leads
   over to the second topic of our minitrack: mobile ad hoc networks. Whereas
   the idea of creating infrastructure-less mobile networks dates back into the
   seventies  (e.g. the PRNET experiment) and to early experiments in the
   military sector it is not until the nineties that this form of networks
   received significant attention in the research community. The initial but
   still ongoing works focused on developing different routing protocols for
   MANETs, like AODV, DSR, OLSR and many more. Later other aspects of MANETs
   were included, like security, quality of service, and applications. Today
   research in ad-hoc networks gathers mostly around the IETF MANET working
   group,  continuing the research in routing protocols, and the IRTF ANS
   research group, focusing in the scalability of ad hoc networks. A lot of
   international and national research projects with project partners like
   Daimler-Chrysler indicate the increasing interest that companies take in
   MANETs. Today ad-hoc networks are one of the most active research fields in
   the area of wireless networking as is indicated by the conference coverage
   outlined below. A lot of issues regarding MANETs are not yet resolved (like
   security, QoS, scalability issues etc.) and the 2005 WPAN minitrack provided
   some significant results in these sectors. Most importantly, we had some
   interesting papers demonstrating application scenarios for MANETs.

   Our goal is to bring together leading researchers in the two fields of
   research in order to present new results and discuss synergies between the
   two areas.

   Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
     * Bluetooth based networks (e.g. Inquiry, Scatternet-Routing, Profiles,
       Applications, ...)
     * WPAN technologies (e.g. 802.15.4 aka Zigbee)
     * Body Area Networks
     * Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (e.g. Routing, Scalability, Address-Assignment,
       ...)
     * Wireless Sensor Networks
     * Performance evaluations
     * Security issues
     * Service discovery and usage
     * Interoperability between different wireless networking technologies and
       heterogeneous wireless infrastructures
     * Applications for WPANs and MANETs
     * New forms of communications in WPANs and MANETs (e.g. using the P2P
       paradigm in MANETs)

  IMPORTANT DEADLINES

   Abstracts Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication
   of appropriate content at anytime.
   June 15 Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following
   Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu). All
   papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to
   10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind
   review.
   August 15 Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer
   Review System.
   September 15
   New  Date! Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission
   instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each
   paper  must  register  by  this date with specific plans to attend the
   conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee $525 applies.
   October 2 Registration fee $575 applies until December 10.
   December 10 Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at conference
   rate.
   Deadline to receive conference registration refund.
   Late registration fee $675 applies.

  INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

     * HICSS papers must contain original material not previously published,
       nor currently submitted elsewhere.
     * Consult the conference website (www.hicss.hawaii.edu) for the listing
       and description of Minitracks for HICSS-39.
     * (optional) Contact the Minitrack Chair(s) by email for guidance and
       verification of appropriate content.
     * Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. If unsure
       of which Minitrack is appropriate, submit abstract to the Track Chair
       for guidance.
     * HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper.
     * Submit full paper according to detailed instructions found on the Peer
       Review System website.

  HICSS-39 CONFERENCE TRACKS

   Collaboration Systems and Technology
   Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs (bbriggs@GroupSystems)
   Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker (jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu)

   Decision Technologies for Management
   Chair: Dan Dolk (drdolk@nps.edu)

   Digital Media: Content and Communication
   Chair: Michael Shepherd (shepherd@cs.cal.ca)

   E-Government
   Chair: H. Jochen Scholl (jscholl@u.washington.edu)

   Information Technology in Health Care
   Chair: William Chismar (chismar@hawaii.edu)

   Internet & the Digital Economy
   Co-chair: David King (david.king@jda.com)
   Co-chair: Alan Dennis (ardennis@indiana.edu)

   Knowledge Management Systems
   Co-chair: Murray Jennex (murphjen@aol.com)
   Co-chair: Dave Croasdell (davec@unr.edu)

   Organizational Systems & Technology
   Chair: Hugh Watson (hwatson@terry.uga.edu)

   Software Technology
   Chair: Gul Agha (agha@cs.uiuc.edu)

   HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and
   system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice.
   Papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature.
   Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected
   for  presentation  will  be  published  in the Conference Proceedings.
   Submissions must not have been previously published.

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  2006 CONFERENCE VENUE

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   Koloa, Kauai HI 96756
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