The First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks

(WiMAN 2007)

in conjunction with ICCCN 2007

Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 16, 2007

 

 [General Info] [Scope and Topics] [Important Dates] [Submissions and Publications] [Technical Program] [Organizing Committees] 

General Information

The First International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN 2007) will be held in conjunction with the 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2007), in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. All papers presented in WiMAN 2007 will be published in the workshop proceeding by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library, or Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

 

Scope and Topics

Recently, wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade's research effort in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks. 

This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks.  The main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless networks.  It also aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We plan to seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the physical layer.

Topics covered by the workshop will include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

Important Dates

Paper submission due:   March 23, 2007

Acceptance notification:  May 11, 2007

Camera-ready due:  June 1, 2007

 

Submissions and Publications

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited up to 6 pages in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or postscript) by sending it as an e-mail attachment to Liqiang Zhang (liqzhang@cs.iusb.edu) or Dakai Zhu (dzhu@cs.utsa.edu). Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.

All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors.  All accepted papers will be published in workshop proceeding by IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Digital Library, or Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

 

Technical Program

        TBA

 

Organizing Committees

Workshop Program Co-Chairs

Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA (liqzhang@cs.iusb.edu)

 

Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (dzhu@cs.utsa.edu)

Publicity Chair

        Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada (j7luo@engmail.uwaterloo.ca)

Technical Program Committee (to be added)

          Malik Audeh, Tropos Networks, USA

          Edoardo S. Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

          Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy

          Surendar Chandra, University of Notre Dame, USA

          Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China

          Christian Hartmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany

          Anders Host-Madsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

          Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany

          Daeyoung Kim, Information and Communications University, Korea

          Sandeep Kulkarni, Michigan State University, USA

          Hyunjeong hannah Lee, Intel Research, USA

          Guoqing Li, Intel Research, USA

          Hock Beng Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

          Wei Lou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong

          Jun Luo, University of Waterloo, Canada

          Frank Reichenbach, University of Rostock, Germany

          Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy

          Kaoru Sezaki, University of Tokyo, Japan

          Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA

          Pavan Sikka, CSIRO, Australia

          Ali Tosun, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

          Zhijun Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong

          Yuan Xue, Vanderbilt University, USA

          Stephen Yang, National Central University, Taiwan

Advisory Committee

           Hossein Hakimzadeh, Indiana University South Bend, USA

           Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA

           Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA

           Bahar Sadeghi, Intel Research, USA

           Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, USA

           Wei Zhao, Texas A&M University, USA