CFP: IEEE International Workshop on Opportunistic Networking (WON-09)

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Call for Papers

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Opportunistic Networking (WON-09)

to be held in conjunction with The IEEE 23th International Conference
on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-09),
Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009

http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/WON09/

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Aims and Scope
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With the explosive deployment of mobile wireless devices recently,
Opportunistic Networking is becoming an increasingly popular area in
networking research, in which the assumption of having end-to-end
paths between the source and the destination is relaxed. Such networks
fall into the fields of mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) and
delay-tolerant networking (DTN).Opportunistic Networks enable user
communication in an environment where disconnection and reconnection
are common and link performance is extremely dynamic. They are very
suitable to support the situation where network infrastructure has
limited coverage and users have "islands of connectivity". By taking
advantage of device mobility, information can be stored and forwarded
over a wireless link when connection 'opportunities' arise (e.g. an
appropriate network contact is met). In this view, traditional
Internet connectivity can be considered as a special case of
connection opportunity. With numerous emerging applications,
Opportunistic Networks allow a huge number of devices to communicate
end-to-end without requiring any pre-existing infrastructure and are
very suitable to support pervasive networking scenarios.

Topics of Interest
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Original papers addressing applications and architecture, systems
and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related
to Opportunistic Networking are solicited. Papers that bring out
interesting and novel ideas at an early stage are favored over
highly-polish journal-style results. Topics of interest include, but
are not limited to:

* Advanced technologies for enabling opportunistic communication
* Architectures for opportunistic networks
* Applications for opportunistic networks
* Biological and social models for opportunistic communication
* Middleware services in opportunistic networks
* Dissemination and replication techniques for opportunistic networks
* Network and resource management techniques for opportunistic networks
* Trust and cooperation in opportunistic networks
* Security issues in opportunistic networks
* Transport and reliability issues in opportunistic networks
* Routing issues in opportunistic networks
* MAC layer issues and physical layer for opportunistic networks
* Simulation and modeling of Opportunistic networks
* Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building
opportunistic networks
* Opportunistic networks testbeds and measurements

Submissions and Proceedings
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Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original,
unpublished manuscripts via ISAS website
(http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/WON09/ISAS/).

The manuscript 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
figures and references. All submitted papers will be refereed
by reviewers in terms of correctness, originality, technical
strength, significance and quality of presentation. The CD
proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press
and available online through IEEE Xplore.

Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: Nov. 7, 2008
Authors Notification: Dec. 1, 2008
Authors Registration: Dec. 17, 2008
Final Manuscript Due: Dec. 28, 2008

General Chair
Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Program Chair
Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Program Committee Members
Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut, USA
Jyh-How Huang, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Robert Hsieh, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dirk Kutscher, Bremen University, Germany
Lavy Libman, National ICT Australia, Australia
Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy
Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Guang Yang, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, USA