WAM 2014 - Track on Wireless LAN, Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks (WAM)

Wireless networks have crossed the chasm. Popular technologies such the IEEE 802.11 were the catalyst for the widespread use of wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Nomadic computing, home networks, and Wi-Fi services are now common place. The transition to multi-hop wireless networks has seemed natural for quite some time now, but has yet to happen. Nonetheless, wireless networks have become important to a range of applications and systems.
Numerous research efforts contributed systems and protocols for that purpose and lead to new, lower cost equipment, products, and services. At the same time, impromptu and on-demand formation of networks, often ephemeral, volatile, or highly mobile, got increased attention in the community, resulting in a large volume of novel schemes to basically revise networking.
The increasing capabilities and the proliferation of wireless devices, and the increasing needs of their users raise new technical challenges. To address those, both theoretical and systems approaches are invaluable. In this track, we invite submissions of works with novel contributions of either type. We are primarily interested in submissions of papers concerned with:
Wireless local area networks
Wireless mesh networks
Mobile ad hoc networks
Vehicular ad hoc networks
Opportunistic and delay tolerant networks
Track Topics
Algorithms and fundamental limits
Protocols for medium access control, route discovery, data transmission, transport, synchronization, localization, etc.
Modeling and performance evaluation
Experimentation, measurements, and test-beds
Applications, software, and tools
Cross-layer design and enhancements
Security and privacy
Architectures, including the integration of wireless ad hoc and infrastructure networks
Deployment challenges, methods, and experiences
User-centric systems, including mobile social networks
Mobile platforms, such as smartphones
Energy efficient design
Quality of Services provisioning in WLAN, ad hoc and mesh networks
Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking
Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking
Topology construction and maintenance in Wireless LAN, ad hoc and mesh networks
Novel applications of Wireless LAN, ad hoc and mesh networks
Track Organizing Committee
Track Co-chairs:
Daji Qiao, Iowa State University, USA
Lei Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
Track Technical Program Committee:
Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Sudha Anil, Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley, USA
Nilanjan Banerjee, UMBC, USA
Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Raffaele Bruno, IIT - CNR Pisa, Italy
Jeong-Woo Cho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Qinghe Du, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Rung-Hung Gau, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Amitabha Ghosh, UtopiaCompression Corporation, USA
Omer Gurewitz, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Qiang-Sheng Hua, Tsinghua University, China
Hyoil Kim, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Wei Lou, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universtiy, Hong Kong
Jun Luo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Victoria Manfredi, BBN Technologies, USA
Mahesh Marina, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Mirco Musolesi, University of Birmingham, UK
Dmitri Perkins, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Bo Sheng, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA
Zhou Su, Waseda University, Japan
Fan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Ying Xu, FutureWei Technologies, USA
Xinyu Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA