AWN 2009 - First International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless Networking (AWN 2009)

First International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless Networking
(AWN 2009)

http://www7.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~dressler/a...

Co-located with
5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2009)

June 21-24, 2009, Leipzig, Germany

Technically Sponsored by IEEE/ACM (pending)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Aims and Scope

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and technologists
to present new ideas and contributions in the domain of wireless networking employed
to support the needs of future wireless communication systems. To deal with the
increasing complexity of large-scale wireless networking systems, computers and
applications must learn to manage themselves in accordance with high-level guidance
from humans ¨C a vision that has been referred to as autonomic computing.

Quality, reliability, security and robustness are specific demands to be provided
by future autonomic wireless networks. Cognitive radio has emerged as a promising
technology for maximizing the utilization of the limited radio bandwidth while
accommodating the increasing amount of services and applications in the wireless
networks. Similarly, cross-layer techniques exploit locally available information for
providing more robust and scalable wireless communication systems.

The purpose of the First International Workshop on Autonomic Wireless Networking
is to bring together researchers and practitioners addressing all aspects of
self-organization, adaptive management of available resources, cooperation and
detection of selfishness in wireless networks. In doing so, we hope to further build
and nurture a community that can work together to realize the vision of large-scale
autonomic wireless networks.

Papers are solicited in the broad range of wireless networking with focus on autonomic
communication. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Smart antenna technologies
- Cognitive and software defined radio
- Cooperative communications
- Incentive compatible and cooperative behavior
- Self-organization
- Cross-layer design and optimization
- Medium access control
- Quality of service
- Radio resource management
- Selfishness detection
- Jamming
- Security and privacy
- Modeling and simulation
- Testbeds and experimental platforms


Submission Guidelines

Prospective authors are invited to submit original papers not exceeding six pages
(hard limit), including text, figures, tables, and references. Papers must be written
in English and must be in standard IEEE conference format. All submissions will be
handled electronically through the EDAS system http://edas.info, and must be in PDF
format.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will be included
in IEEE Digital Library (pending approval). Selected papers will be further considered
for possible publication in a special issue of the Wiley Journal of Wireless
Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC), and International Journal of Autonomous
and Adaptive Communications Systems.


Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: December 20, 2008
Paper Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2009
Camera-Ready Paper Submission: April 15, 2009
Registration Deadline for Authors: April 15, 2009


Workshop Organizing Committee

Co-Chairs:
- Falko Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany, dressler-AT-informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- Tommaso Melodia, SUNY Buffalo, NY, tmelodia-AT-eng.buffalo.edu
- Enzo Mingozzi, Univ. of Pisa, Italy, e.mingozzi-AT-iet.unipi.it

Technical Program Committee:

- Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca, Italy
- Michael Bahr, Siemens AG, Germany
- Lars Berlemann, Deutsche Telekom, Germany
- Luciano Bononi, Univ. of Bologna, Italy
- Iacopo Carreras, Create-Net, Italy
- Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy
- Kaushik Chowdhury, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
- Eylem Ekici, Ohio State Univ., OH
- Frank Fitzek, Univ. of Aalborg, Denmark
- Reinhard German, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany
- Holger Karl, Univ. of Paderborn, Germany
- Mirco Musolesi, Univ. of Cambridge, UK
- Edith Ngai, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
- Melek Onen, Eurecom, France
- Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
- Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, NJ
- Christian Rohner, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
- Antonio Ruzzelli, Univ. College Dublin, Ireland
- Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany
- Mehmet Vuran, Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln, NE
- Andreas Willig, TU Berlin, Germany