WiMAN 2011 - 5th Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks (WiMAN)

Recently, wireless mesh and ad hoc networking is attracting significant interest from academia, industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade of research efforts in mobile ad hoc networks, many research issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the introduction of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks.

This workshop aims to bring together the technologies and researchers who share interest in the area of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. Its main purpose is to promote discussions of research and relevant activities in the design of architectures, protocols, algorithms, services, and applications for wireless mesh and ad hoc networks. Also, this workshop aims at increasing the synergy between academic and industry professionals working in this area. We seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, and work in-progress at the all layers of wireless mesh and ad hoc networks, from application layer to the physical layer.

Topics covered in this workshop will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking

Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN

Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking

MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond)

Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols

Implications of smart antennas on MAC and routing protocols

Quality of Services provisioning

Multimedia communications over mesh and ad hoc networks

Network deployment, localization, and synchronization

Topology construction and maintenance

Methods and tools for mesh and ad hoc networks simulation

Modeling and performance evaluations

Physical layer techniques

Cross layer optimizations

Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms

Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures

Intelligent system techniques for mesh and ad hoc networks

Security-related issues in mesh and ad hoc networks

Novel applications of mesh and ad hoc networks

Wireless sensor networks and RFID

Test beds, prototypes, and practical systems

Organization Committee

Workshop Chair

Habib M. Ammari (Hofstra University, USA)
Technical Program Committee

Wessam Ajib (University of Quebec at Montreal)

Hasnaa Aniss (UQAT-LRCS, Canada)

Malik Audeh (Tropos Networks, USA)

Stefano Avallone (University of Naples, Italy)

Luciano Bononi (University of Bologna, Italy)

Raffaele Bruno (IIT-CNR, Italy)

Chung Tun Chou (Univ. of New South Wales)

Yong Cui (Tsinghua University, China)

Gang Ding (Olympus Communication Techn.)

Junzhao Du (Xidian University, China)

Karoly Farkas (University of West Hungary)

Shinichi Honiden (University of Tokyo)

Holger Karl (University of Paderborn, Germany)

Abdelmajid Khelil (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

Ricky Kwok (Colorado State University, USA)

Guoqing Li (Intel Research, USA)

Qun Li (College of William and Mary, USA)

Hock Beng Lim (Nanyang Techn. University)

Jun Luo (Nanyang Techn. University)

Guoqiang Mao (The University of Sydney)

Shivajit Mohapatra (Motorola Labs, USA)

Luis Montestruque (EmNet LLC, USA)

Qiang Ni (Brunei University, UK)

Frank Reichenbach (ABB AS, Norway)

Paolo Santi (IIT-CNR, Italy)

Haiying Shen (University of Arkansas, USA)

Aaron Striegel (University of Notre Dame, USA)

David Surma (Indiana University South Bend)

Jianbin Wei (Yahoo!, USA)

Xiliang Zhong (Microsoft, USA)

Advisory Committee

Hossein Hakimzadeh, Indiana University South Bend, USA

Sharon Hu, University of Notre Dame, USA

Yingbo Hua, University of California Riverside, USA

Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA

Bahar Sadeghi, Intel Research, USA

Loren Schwiebert, Wayne State University, USA

Wei Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Steering Committee

Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA

Liqiang Zhang, Indiana University South Bend, USA

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submissions should include an abstract, key words, and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of the papers should be limited to 6 pages in standard camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font). Detailed submission instructions will be posted on the workshop webpage. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work.

Paper submission Website: http://www.edas.info

Important Dates

Paper submission due: March 7, 2011 (Monday, 23:59 EST).

Acceptance notification: April 25, 2011

Camera-ready due: May 13, 2011

Registration due: May 13, 2011

ICCCN 2011 Conference: July 31 - August 4, 2011

Previous Workshops

WiMAN 2010

WiMAN 2009