CALL FOR PAPERS: MeshTech'07
8 October 2007, Pisa, Italy
First IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies and Standards for Wireless Mesh Networking
Jointly organized by
- Nokia Research Center, Finland
- University of Pisa, Italy
- RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Co-located with IEEE MASS 2007
Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE TC on Distributed Processing, and IEEE TC on Simulation
In-cooperation with ACM SIGMOBILE
Wireless Mesh Networks are emerging as a key technology for next generation wireless networking. As such, they are currently inspiring a lot of research activities and also experiencing a very fast deployment in many today's environments, such as public city-wide broadband WiFi networks, rural networks, private neighbourhood communities, or private business networks that are characterized by frequent topology changes, cabling troubles, or hard environmental conditions.
Despite such extraordinary interest in both academia and private industry, there is still a lack of reference standard specifications for developing mesh networking technology. Several standardization bodies have recently started working on specifications which aim at defining recognized protocols and architectures for interoperable WMNs, including both the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards committee (inside the IEEE 802.16 and, more recently, the 802.16j, the IEEE 802.11s, and the IEEE 802.15.5 Working Groups) and the IETF in the context of wireless access and mobility support in Next Generation Internet (inside, e.g., the MIPSHOP, NETLMM and MANET Working Groups).
The aim of this workshop is to bring together practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to have a forum for discussion and technical presentations on the recent advances in theory, application and implementation of next generation mobile mesh/multi-hop relay networking technologies within the context of existing and/or emerging standards, in an attempt to answer the question of what technical solutions will be able to drive the success of these standardization efforts, and what kind of mesh networking products will then appear on the market in the near future.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- - Routing protocols
- - Medium access control protocols
- - Quality of Service and fairness provisioning
- - Mesh networks configuration and management
- - Topology discovery, association and control
- - Mesh networks measurement
- - Mobility management
- - Interworking in heterogeneous wireless mesh networks
- - Security architectures, functions and protocol
- - Fault tolerance, anomaly detection and error recovery schemes
- - Performance evaluation
- - Comparative study of competing solutions
- - Cross-layer design and optimization
- - Advanced antenna technologies
- - Spectrum policy and etiquettes
- - Cognitive and frequency-agile radios
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically to EDAS by May 15, 2007, 11:59pm EST. Detailed submission instructions will be posted on the conference website. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the main proceedings of IEEE MASS 2007 and published by IEEE.
IMPORTANT DATES
| Manuscript Submission Due | 22 May, 2007 (11:59pm EST) |
| Notification of acceptance | 15 July, 2007 |
| Final Manuscript Due | 10 August, 2007 |
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
- Carl Eklund, Nokia Research Center, Finland.
- Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy.
- Bernhard Walke, Chair of Communication Networks, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
- - Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks, Canada
- - Leonardo Badia, IMT Lucca, Italy
- - Michael Bahr, Siemens AG, Germany
- - Lars Berlemann, Swisscom Innovations, Switzerland
- - Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
- - Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
- - Antonio Capone, Politecnico of Milan, Italy
- - Aik Chindapol, Siemens Corporate Research, USA
- - Claudio Cicconetti, University of Pisa, Italy
- - Dee Denteneer, Philips Research, The Netherlands
- - Donald Eastlake, Motorola, USA
- - Guido Hiertz, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- - Jarkko Kneckt, Nokia Research Center, Finland
- - Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National University, South Korea
- - Myung J. Lee, City University of New York, City College, USA
- - Luciano Lenzini, University of Pisa, Italy
- - Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations, Switzerland
- - Sebastian Max, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- - Daniele Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy
- - Moshe Ran, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
- - Rakesh Taori, Samsung, South Korea
- - Christian Wietfeld, University of Dortmund, German
