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CfP: NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems


Call for Position Papers:

NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless 
Systems
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http://it2.eng.fiu.edu/Workshop/index.html


In conjunction with the International Conference on 
Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)
Chapparal Suites Hotel, Scottsdale, Arizona, October, 15, 
2001
sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the 
Telecommunications and Information Technology Institute 
at Florida International University

The NSF Workshop on an Infrastructure for Mobile and 
Wireless Systems will bring together the leading 
researchers and developers in fields adjacent
 to mobile and wireless systems. The goal of the workshop 
is to foster communication not only between the different 
wireless communities
 (e.g., those dealing with communication, computing, 
operating systems and networks for wireless access) and 
the distributed systems
and information systems communities. Such collaboration 
is necessitated by the current needs of wireless 
technologies, if new horizons of research and 
development are to be reached.

Scope: 
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The objective of the workshop is to define and establish 
a common infrastructure of the discipline and to develop 
a consensus-based document that will 
provide a foundation for implementation, standardization, 
as well as for further research. The workshop will offer 
the opportunity to identify and define
 fundamental concepts and techniques, resolve conflicts 
between certain approaches in the area and provide a 
common ground for advanced wireless
technologies as well as the corresponding research needed 
to enable that technology. The topics that will be 
addressed include, but are not limited to,
 the following as they pertain to the development of a 
common infrastructure:

* Wireless/Mobile Satellite Communication Networks 
* Wireless Multimedia  Applications 
* Internet Services/Applications 
* Network Management Performance Modeling/Analysis
* Network Architectures
* Interoperability
* Data Caching and Hoarding 
* Query Languages for Mobile Users
* Transaction Models for Wireless  Access
* Quality of Service Issues 
* Global Infrastructure 
* Network Evolution
* Networked Databases 
* Heterogeneous Databases
* Mediator Systems
* Data Replication
* Databases for Mobile Users 
* Data synchronization
* Secure Architectures
* Mobile E-commerce


Workshop Format:
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The workshop format will be designed to encourage 
productive interaction among participants. It will 
consist of the presentation of position papers as well as 
of 
invited papers on new developments and current trends 
with ample time allocated for group discussions. This 
format should provide a forum for collaborations
 to develop among members of the different research and 
development communities. Attendance will be limited and 
attendants will be asked to contribute to a 
consensus-based paper on an infrastructure to be 
published after the workshop.

Submission: 
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Authors are invited to submit position papers proposing a 
portion of the infrastructure that they consider amenable 
to consensus. Position papers that challenge
 the mobile computing community with new technologies and 
visionary applications are also encouraged. Position 
papers should be between 5 and 10 pages in
 length, and should include the title, author(s), 
authors' affiliation and an abstract. Papers accepted or 
under review by other conferences, workshops or journals
including ICCCN2001 will not be reviewed/considered for 
acceptance for this NSF workshop. Submitters should also 
indicate their willingness to contribute to the final 
report. 
Electronic submission  is strongly encouraged. If 
electronic submission is not possible, five (5) hard 
copies of the paper should be send. Contact information 
for
 both cases is provided below. The accepted papers will 
be distributed to the participants prior to the workshop 
and will also appear in print together with the 
consensus paper after the workshop.


Important Dates:
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Paper submission deadline: May, 13,  2001
Notification of Acceptance: August, 01, 2001 
Workshop: October, 16, 2001 


General Chairs:
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Niki Pissinou, Florida International University (on leave 
from: University of Louisiana at Lafayette), USA
Kia Makki, Florida International University, USA


Program Chairs:
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Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University, USA
Birgitta Koenig-Ries, Florida International University, 
USA


Program Vice-Chair:
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Sam Makki, Queensland University of Technology, Australia


Registration Chair:
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E.K. Park, University of Missouri, USA


Program Committee:
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B.R. Bardrinath, Rutgers University, USA 
Bharat Bhargava, Purdue University, USA 
Yuri Breitbart, Lucent, Bell Labs 
Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University, USA 
Forouzan Golshani, Arizona State University, USA
David Hislop, Army Research Office, USA 
Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 
USA 
Robert Laurini, L'Institut National des Sciences 
Appliquées de Lyon/Université Claude Bernard Lyon, France 
Dik Lun Lee, University of Science and Technology, Hong 
Kong 
Peter Reiher, UCLA, USA 
Kurt Rothermel, IPVR, University of Stuttgart, Germany 
Mukesh Singhal, Ohio State University/ NSF, USA 
Oezguer Ulusoy, Bilkent University, Turkey 
Jari Veijalainen, GMD-FIT, Germany/University of 
Jyvaskyla, Finland

Contact Information:
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Electronic Submissions:
Birgitta Koenig-Ries
E-mail: koenig-ries@acm.org 

Hard-Copy Submissions:
Dr. Kia Makki
NSF Workshop Submission
College of Engineering
Telecommunications and Information Technology Institute
Florida International University
10555 W. Flagler St., EAS2425
Miami, FL 33174
USA


--
Birgitta Koenig-Ries                 
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Florida International University
Tel. +1 (225)201-9624
koenig-ries@acm.org
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
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