CFP - IEEE VTC'03 Wireless Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks: Energy-Efficient and Context-Aware Designs, Orlando, Florida, USA, October 4-9, 2003

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

                            CALL FOR PAPERS



IEEE VTC 2003 http://www.vtc2003.org/

Symposium on Wireless Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks:

Energy-Efficient and Context-Aware Designs



October 4-9, 2003

Hyatt Orlando Hotel

Orlando, Florida, USA



Symposium Chair:



Ahmed Safwat

Queen?s University, Canada

safwat@cs.queensu.ca <mailto:safwat@cs.queensu.ca>



This is the first in a series of annual symposia dedicated to Wireless

Ad hoc, Sensor, and Wearable Networks. Each year there will be one or more

themes invigorated by the state-of-the-art. This year?s theme is

?Energy-Efficient and  Context-Aware Designs?.



In multi-hop wireless ad hoc, sensor, and wearable networks wireless mobile

stations and electronic devices form a network without the intervention
of a

dedicated infrastructure. Such networks eradicate infrastructure
deployment,

setup, and administration costs. Nevertheless, although energy
efficiency and

context awareness in wireless ad hoc, sensor, and wearable networks are of

great significance, they both remain the main impediments towards their

deployment.



The outcomes of this year?s Symposium will stimulate and exhilarate the

deployment of sustainable and context-rich wireless ad hoc, sensor, and

wearable networks.



Original papers are solicited in the area of energy-efficiency and/or

context-awareness for wireless ad hoc, sensor, and wearable networks.

Topics of  interest include, but are not limited to, the following:



-- Routing protocols

-- Medium access control

-- Modeling and simulation

-- Security algorithms

-- Energy-efficient physical designs

-- Disruptive applications (telemedical, biological, etc)

-- Multi-hop cellular architectures (multi-hop WLANs, 4G, 4G+)

-- Body area networks

-- M-commerce

-- Multi-channel ad hoc/sensor networks: designs and algorithms

-- Directive antennas

-- Self-configurable wearable networks

-- Personal area networks

-- Cross-layer designs

-- TCP-related issues

-- Wireless multi-hop testbeds

-- Location-inspired designs

-- Incorporation of context into wearable networking

-- Non-monolithic/shared conceptual models for context-awareness

-- Algorithms for context discovery and delivery





Submission Guidelines:



Authors are required to submit a short abstract (approximately 150
words) AND

an extended abstract (up to 2 pages) as well. All submissions will be
handled

electronically through the EDAS conference management system at

http://edas.info, and must be in MS-Word or PDF format. Your submission
should

include the names, complete mailing addresses, telephone and fax
numbers, and

the email addresses of the authors.





Important Dates:



Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 15, 2003

Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2003

Camera-Ready Papers: July 15, 2003





Best regards,



Ahmed



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Ahmed Safwat

Telecommunications Research Lab

School of Computing

Queen's University, Canada

Phone: 613.549.5667

URL: http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/safwat/

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