MeshTech 2011 - MeshTech 2011 Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies and Standards for Wireless Mesh Networking

MeshTech 2011

Fifth IEEE International Workshop on

Enabling Technologies and Standards for Wireless Mesh Networking

http://www.ing.unipi.it/meshtech11

co-located with IEEE MASS 2011

sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society,

IEEE TC on Distributed Processing,

IEEE TC on Simulation

October 17, 2011

Valencia, Spain



Wireless mesh networks are considered as a key technology for next-
generation wireless networking. They are experiencing a rapid
proliferation in many of today's environments, such as public city-wide
broadband Wi-Fi, rural and private business networks, as well as
neighbourhood communities. Wireless mesh networks have not only become a
hot topic in the research and industry communities, but also triggered
standardization bodies that have worked on specifying recognized
protocols and architectures for interoperable WMNs, including both the
IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards committee (inside the IEEE 802.16/WiMAX, the
IEEE 802.11s, and the IEEE 802.15.5 Working Groups) and the IETF in the
context of wireless access and mobility support in Next Generation
Internet (inside, e.g., the MIPSHOP, NETLMM and ROLL Working Groups).

This proliferation of mesh technologies has furthermore led to the
definition of new topologies that extended the classic base station
centered deployments, revitalizing the interest from the research and
industry communities with new paradigms such as direct link set-ups
(from the IEEE 802.11 Task Group "z") or the peer-to-peer specification
(from the Wi-Fi Alliance).

Building on the success of the previous editions, MeshTech 2011 aims to
bring together again practitioners and researchers from both academia
and industry in order to discuss the recent advances and future
evolution of next generation peer-to-peer and mobile mesh/multi-hop
relay networking technologies and standards for Wireless Personal,
Local, Metropolitan, Rural and Regional Area Networks.

Within the scope of wireless mesh networks, topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:

- Routing protocols
- Medium access control protocols
- Quality of Service and fairness provisioning
- Mesh networks configuration and management
- Topology discovery, association and control
- Mesh network measurement
- Mobility management
- Coexistence with existing wireless infrastructures
- Security architectures, functions and protocols
- Performance evaluation
- Comparative study of competing solutions
- Cross-layer design and optimization
- Cognitive and frequency-agile radios
- Fault tolerance, anomaly detection and error recovery schemes
- Interworking of heterogeneous standard wireless mesh networks
- Wireless mesh networks for TV white spaces
- Wireless mesh networks for the Smart Grid
- Vehicular wireless mesh networks

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
All submissions must describe original research, not published or
currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal.
Papers must be submitted electronically to EDAS by June 26, 2011,
11:59pm EDT. You can find detailed submission instructions at
http://www.ing.unipi.it/meshtech11/submission.shtm.... Submission implies
the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and
present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the main
proceedings of IEEE MASS 2011 and published by IEEE.

IMPORTANT DATES
Manuscript Submission Due: June 26, 2011.
Acceptance Notification: July 22, 2011.
Final Manuscript Due: August 12, 2011.

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Guido R. Hiertz, Riedel Communications, Germany.
Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy.

TPC CHAIR
Pablo Serrano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To Be Completed).
Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy.
Leonardo Badia, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy.
Michael Bahr, Siemens AG, Germany.
Jaume Barcelo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain.
Boris Bellalta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain.
Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy.
Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy.
Joseph Camp, Southern Methodist University, USA.
Dave Cavalcanti, Philips Research, USA.
Claudio Cicconetti, Intecs S.p.A., Italy.
David Chieng, MIMOS, Malaysia.
Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary.
Mesut Gunes, FU Berlin, Germany.
Dan Harkins, Aruba Networks, USA.
Matthias Hollick, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany.
Kyeong Soo Kim, Swansea University, UK.
Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National University, South Korea.
Johannes Lessmann, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany.
Azman Osman Lim, NICT, Japan.
Alberto Lopez Toledo, Telefonica Research, Spain.
Vincenzo Mancuso, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain.
Stefan Mangold, Disney Research, Switzerland.
Josep Mangues-Bafalluy, CTTC, Spain.
Santosh Pandey, Cisco Systems, USA.
Paul Patras, Hamilton Institute, Ireland.
Rene Purnadi, RIM, USA.
Alexander Safonov, Russian Academy of Science, Russia.
Spiro Trikaliotis, Institut fur Automation und Kommunikation, Germany