WAN 2014 - 1st KuVS Workshop on Anticipatory Networks

Anticipation is a promising new approach for designing telecommunication networks. By predicting and adapting to upcoming events an anticipatory network can highly improve operation quality and efficiency. Driven by the increasing capabilities of “smart” handsets as well as by the recent progress in machine learning and context-aware optimization, anticipatory adaptation receives more and more attention by researchers in industry and academia. While early results show the high potential of anticipation for specific scenarios, many theoretical and practical questions remain.
This workshop aims to consolidate the view on Anticipatory Networks, to define promising research directions, and to connect researchers in the field. While current research has considered anticipation mostly in a wireless context, we encourage discussions about applications in other systems as well, e.g., data centers and backhauls. Researchers, scientists and engineers from industry and academia are cordially invited to present their work.
Topics
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Models, bounds, and techniques for anticipatory adaptation and optimization
Algorithms and protocols for anticipatory adaptation and optimization
System architectures for anticipatory networks, both conceptual and legacy integration
Methods for anticipatory adaptation and optimization, e.g., from machine learning, data mining, optimization, and signal processing
Methods and approaches for predicting channel characteristics, user mobility, user behavior, application demands, and traffic requirements
New uses of Smartphone sensors and network statistics for anticipation and adaptation
Use cases, practical examples, and experimental results for anticipatory networking
Submission Guideline
Researchers are invited to submit an extended abstract with a maximum of 3 pages in IEEE Conference Style, US Letter format. The abstract should be written in English and submitted as a PDF file to kuvs-anticipatory[at]uni-paderborn.de. The extended abstracts will be made available as a collection on arXiv.org.
Submission: July 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance: August 12, 2014
Final Abstract submission: September 1, 2014
Venue and Travel Information
The event will take place from September 29 to 30, 2014 at the Alcatel-Lucent Campus in Stuttgart, Germany. The closest city train ("S-Bahn") station is S6 Neuwirtshaus-Porscheplatz. Please refer to these PDFs for directions and a list of hotels.
The workshop will be held in building 2, ground floor, meeting room 1. Although we will publish the detailed schedule later on, we expect the workshop to start at 1pm on Sep. 29 and to end at 2pm on Sep. 30.
For any questions regarding logistics and submission, please do not hesitate to write to kuvs-anticipatory[at]uni-paderborn.de.
Committee
Stefan Valentin, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
Holger Karl, University of Paderborn
Slawomir Stanczak, Fraunhofer HHI, TU Berlin
Magnus Proebster, University of Stuttgart
Hermann Lichte, net mobile AG
Matthias Lott, DOCOMO Euro-Labs