CFP: Workshop on Wireless Local Networks, in conjunction with IEEE Local Computer Networks conference, Tampa, Florida November 14-16, 2001

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Workshop on Wireless Local Networks
http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/hossam/WLN/WLNindex.html

in conjunction with 
IEEE Local Computer Networks conference <http://www.ieeelcn.org>
Tampa, Florida
November 14-16, 2001


Program Co-chairs:
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada

Scope:
In recent years we have witnessed a proliferation of wireless and mobile
computing devices. Wireless devices are also increasingly used to access
the Internet and for data services in general. This has lead to a 
growing expectation from users to be able to access information anytime 
and from anywhere. Local wireless networks have thus become 
increasingly important to satisfy the user demand for mobile and 
pervasive computing.

We are interested in visionary, experimental, systems-related and work
in-progress papers in the area of local wireless, mobile, ad hoc and 
home networking. Papers should describe original, previously unpublished
work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or 
journal. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Media access techniques and protocols
- Power aware protocols
- User mobility models and workloads
- Data management in mobile environments
- Mobile security, authentication and encryption 
- Interoperability issues between wireless standards
- Interoperability issues between wireless protocols and the Internet
- Ad hoc multimedia network architectures and protocols
- Resource allocation in wireless LANs
- Ad hoc routing protocols and algorithms
- Distributed algorithms for ad hoc networks
- Transport protocols for ad hoc networks
- Self configuration for ad hoc networks
- Mobile ad hoc computing platforms and testbeds
- Wireless ad-hoc network simulation techniques
- Ad hoc networking over Bluetooth
- Performance of Bluetooth networks
- HIPERLAN and IEEE 802.11
- Wireless local loop architectures and performance
- Quality of Service issues in local wireless networks
- Applications for ad hoc networks
- Mobile services, applications, middleware
- Internet appliances
- Home networking


Paper Submission:
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers not exceeding 
15 single-spaced pages including figures and references.
Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF or postscript format to 
(wln@cs.queensu.ca) by June 15, 2001. 

A selected number of the accepted papers will be invited for possible 
inclusion in the special issue on wireless, ad-hoc networks,
planned by the journal of Computer Networks, Elsevier. 


Dates:
Paper submission:  June 15, 2001
Author Notification: July 27, 2001
Final Manuscript due: August 17, 2001
Workshop: November 14


Keynote speaker: 
Nitin Vaidya, Texas A&M University


Program Committee:
Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida 
Azzedine Boukerche, University of North of Texas
Samir Das, University of Cincinnati
Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta
Hisham El-Reweini, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Pawel Gburzynski, University of Alberta
Janelle Harms, University of Alberta
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's Univeristy 
Abdelsalam Helal, University of Florida
Young-Bae Ko, IBM T. J. Watson Research
Marie-Jose Montpetit, Nokia Home Communications
Hussein Mouftah, Queen's Univeristy 
Jogesh Muppala, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta
Ahmed Safwat, Queen's Univeristy
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa
Terry Todd, McMaster University
Norman Toms, Sierra Wireless 
Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University
Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Northeastern University
Carey Williamson, University of Calgary
Guoliang Xue, University of Vermont
Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo
Albert Zomaya, University of Western Australia
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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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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	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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