SANS 2009 - SANS 2009 The International Workshop on Scalable Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

SANS 2009 The International Workshop on Scalable Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
http://www.ieee-sasn.org
St. Petersburg, Russia, 12 - 14 Ottobre 2009

technically sponsored by IEEE

colocated with ICUMT 2009
The International Conference On Ultra Modern Telecommunications
http://www.icumt.org

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Aims and Scope:
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The scope of the International Workshop on Scalable Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
(SASN '09) is to bring together a highly qualified group of researchers and
developers interested in the design, development and evaluation of scalable ad
hoc and sensor networks, so that they can share their results and experiences,
exchange innovative ideas, and establish potential collaborations expecially
between the Academia and the Industry.
With the explosive proliferation of mobile communication and computing devices,
the scalability property is becoming an increasingly popular issue in wireless
communication research, as it has been recognized as one of the key features for
supporting pervasive networking scenarios.
The scalability concept involves several dimensions, like the node number, the
data load, the user/application number, etc, and it is the basis to break up the
cellular concept enriching it by multi hop communications.
The workshop will focus on fundamental challenges and issues in the fields of
scalable ad hoc and sensor networks, and it will highlight the newest trends in
this emerging area.



Topics of Interest:
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Original, unpublished contributions addressing application and architectures,
systems and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related to
scalable ad hoc and sensor networks are solicited. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:
- congestion, scheduling and admission control
- routing, broadcasting and multicasting protocols
- transport-layer protocols for SASN
- data transportation, dissemination, aggregation, replication and management
- resource allocation, discovery and management
- context and location-aware services
- power-aware architectures, algorithms and protocols design
- security and privacy
- Quality of Service (QoS) and fairness provisioning
- cross-layer design and optimization
- joint source-channel coding and asymptotic scalability
- integration of ad hoc/sensor networks with infrastructure-based networks
- information-theoretic analysis of ad hoc/sensor networks
- scalable mobile, mesh and vehicular ad hoc networks
- opportunism and cooperation for SASN
- peer-to-peer and delay-tolerant networks
- modeling and simulation methodologies for large scale networks
- prototypes and testbeds design to investigate scalability
- challenges arising from new technologies (UWB, MIMO, beam forming, Cognitive Radio, etc.)




Important dates:
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Abstract submission due: June 19, 2009
Paper submission due: June 26, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2009
Camera-ready version due: September 11, 2009



Submissions:
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Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research,
unpublished and not currently under review by another conference or journal,
via EDAS (http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=7701).
The manuscripts should be written in English and follow IEEE two-column format
with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is
six (6) pages including all text, figures and references.
All submitted manuscripts will be judged based on the correctness, originality,
technical strength, significance and quality of presentation through a review
process.



Proceedings:
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All the accepted papers will be included in the ICUMT 2009 main conference
proceedings and published by IEEE Xplore.

Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers for consideration of publication in a special issue of
the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
(IJCNDS).



Committees:
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Workshop Chair:
Marcello Caleffi, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

Technical Program Chair:
Luigi Paura, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

Technical Program Committee Members:
Marcello Caleffi, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Franco Davoli, Universit¨¤ di Genova (Italy)
Mieso Denko, University of Guelpg (Canada)
Misha Dohler, Centre Tecnol¨°gic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (Spain)
Martin Haenggi, University of Notre Dame (USA)
Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba (Canada)
Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sidney (Australia)
Tara Javidi, University of California San Diego (USA)
Matti Latva-Aho, University of Oulu (Finland)
Scott Midkiff, VirginiaTech (USA)
Sudip Misra, Indian Istitute of Technology Kharagpur (India)
Antonella Molinaro, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy)
Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania (Italy)
Anna Scaglione, University of California Davis (USA)
Michele Zorzi, Univeristy of Padova (Italy)