Med-Hoc-Net 2014 - 13th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop

The 13th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop
June 2-4, 2014
Piran, Slovenia
http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/medhocnet2014
Important Dates
Papers Due: March 3, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 7, 2014
Camera-Ready Version due: May 4, 2014
Conference Dates: June 2-4, 2014
Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for
publication. Submissions are limited to 8 pages in length in Two-Column
Format, including references, figures and tables. Authors are requested to
submit their manuscripts electronically through the EDAS web site.
Overview
Wireless ad hoc networks have attracted considerable attention from the
research community in the last several years. Now that many of the
fundamental topics and challenges have been deeply investigated, the focus
is partially shifting to new issues, which include data-centric operations,
autonomous organization, service creation/support, continued operation under
intermittent connectivity, optimization, control, cross-layer design and
application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, smart cities, energy
efficient buildings, sensors, actuators, wearables, etc.). Moreover,
novel and exciting challenges are introduced by commercial systems adopting
the ad hoc paradigm, from mesh, sensor and vehicular networks, and by
associated delay-tolerant and opportunistic scenarios. Furthermore,
today's market explosion of smart phones is creating new opportunities for
wireless ad hoc social networks, the study of which requires the combination
of opportunistic ad hoc networking aspects with the understanding of social
behavior and mobility patterns.
MED-HOC-NET 2014 focuses on all the ramifications of ad hoc networking
research, not only the classic topics of location management,
security/privacy, topology optimization/control schemes and resource
allocation, but also paying attention to novel emerging areas such as green
networking, safety/surveillance, underwater communications, and coexistence
among heterogeneous devices.
The Workshop is endorsed by the IEEE Communication Society and its Technical
Committees for Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks, Information Infrastructure &
Networking, and Radio Communication, and by IFIP.
TOPICS
Papers are solicited in a variety of topics related to ad hoc, wireless,
sensor, mesh, delay-tolerant, content-centric and opportunistic networks,
including but not limited to
-Routing algorithms and protocols
-MAC protocols, scheduling, power control, and resource allocation
-Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks
-Middleware for ad hoc networks
-Application driven architectures and protocols
-Sensor network applications and protocols
-Vehicular networks
-Cognitive radio networks
-Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks
-Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes
-Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee,
IEEE 802.16, etc.)
-Self organization and network reconfiguration
-Optimization models and algorithms
-Resource and service discovery
-Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.)
-Security and privacy
-Delay tolerant networks
-Exploitation of social and mobility patterns for opportunistic networking
-Mobile social networks
-Security and privacy
-Participatory and urban sensing
-Underwater wireless networks
-Heterogeneous networks
-Novel performance measures
-Green networking
-Cooperative schemes
-Network localization
-Network secrecy
-Networking virtualization
-Services based, and enabled by Ad Hoc networks
Conference Chairs
Fulvio Babich - University of Trieste, Italy
Eve Schooler - Intel Labs, USA
Technical Program Chairs
Andreas Kassler - Karlstads Universitet, Sweden
Gustavo Marfia - University of Bologna, Italy
Steering Committees
Ian F. Akyildiz - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Khaldoun Al Agha - Paris-Sud University, France
Luigi Fratta - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mario Gerla - UCLA, USA
Farouk Kamoun - ENSI, Tunisia
Giovanni Pau - UCLA, USA
Guy Pujolle - UPMC, Paris 6, France