CFP: IEEE International Workshop on Opportunistic Networking (WON-09)

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Deadline: November 07, 2008 | Date: May 26, 2009

Venue/Country: U.K.

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Opportunistic Networking (WON-09)

to be held in conjunction with The IEEE 23th International Conference

on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-09),

Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009

http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/WON09/

Aims and Scope

With the explosive deployment of mobile wireless devices recently,

Opportunistic Networking is becoming an increasingly popular area in

networking research, in which the assumption of having end-to-end

paths between the source and the destination is relaxed. Such networks

fall into the fields of mobile ad-hoc networking (MANET) and

delay-tolerant networking (DTN).Opportunistic Networks enable user

communication in an environment where disconnection and reconnection

are common and link performance is extremely dynamic. They are very

suitable to support the situation where network infrastructure has

limited coverage and users have "islands of connectivity". By taking

advantage of device mobility, information can be stored and forwarded

over a wireless link when connection 'opportunities' arise (e.g. an

appropriate network contact is met). In this view, traditional

Internet connectivity can be considered as a special case of

connection opportunity. With numerous emerging applications,

Opportunistic Networks allow a huge number of devices to communicate

end-to-end without requiring any pre-existing infrastructure and are

very suitable to support pervasive networking scenarios.

Topics of Interest

Original papers addressing applications and architecture, systems

and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related

to Opportunistic Networking are solicited. Papers that bring out

interesting and novel ideas at an early stage are favored over

highly-polish journal-style results. Topics of interest include, but

are not limited to:

* Advanced technologies for enabling opportunistic communication

* Architectures for opportunistic networks

* Applications for opportunistic networks

* Biological and social models for opportunistic communication

* Middleware services in opportunistic networks

* Dissemination and replication techniques for opportunistic networks

* Network and resource management techniques for opportunistic networks

* Trust and cooperation in opportunistic networks

* Security issues in opportunistic networks

* Transport and reliability issues in opportunistic networks

* Routing issues in opportunistic networks

* MAC layer issues and physical layer for opportunistic networks

* Simulation and modeling of Opportunistic networks

* Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building

opportunistic networks

* Opportunistic networks testbeds and measurements

Submissions and Proceedings

Authors are invited to submit an electronic version of original,

unpublished manuscripts via ISAS website

(http://nrl.iis.sinica.edu.tw/WON09/ISAS/).

The manuscript should be written in English and follow IEEE

two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the

text. The maximum manuscript length is six (6) pages including

figures and references. All submitted papers will be refereed

by reviewers in terms of correctness, originality, technical

strength, significance and quality of presentation. The CD

proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press

and available online through IEEE Xplore.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Nov. 7, 2008

Authors Notification: Dec. 1, 2008

Authors Registration: Dec. 17, 2008

Final Manuscript Due: Dec. 28, 2008

General Chair

Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Program Chair

Ling-Jyh Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Program Committee Members

Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

Jun-Hong Cui, University of Connecticut, USA

Jyh-How Huang, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Robert Hsieh, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia

Dirk Kutscher, Bremen University, Germany

Lavy Libman, National ICT Australia, Australia

Joerg Ott, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Marco Roccetti, University of Bologna, Italy

Pablo Vidales, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany

Guang Yang, Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, USA