MESH 2010 - The Third International Conference on Advances in Mesh Networks

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Category MESH 2010

Deadline: February 20, 2010 | Date: July 18, 2010

Venue/Country: Venice, Italy

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

Call For Papers - CFP

MESH 2010 builds on the previous editiona to address the most challenging aspects for designing and deploying mesh networks. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.

Architectures and algorithms

?Frameworks

?Wireless interference models

?Topology models

?Large-scale networks

?Real-time and non-real-time communications

?Channel assignment schemes

?Resource allocation

?Centralized and distributed scheduling

?Performance

?Static/mobile scenarios

?Access control

?Service differentiation

?Security, Privacy, and Trust

Protocols

?Protocol interference models

?Access and routing protocols

?Single-channel multihop / multi-channel routing

?Joint routing and scheduling

?Routing metrics

?Multichannel routing

?Quality of Services routing

?Multimedia-centric routing

?Fast-link quality metrics

?Bandwidth estimation

?Cross-layer multicast routing

?QoS-based access protocols for mesh networks

?Multi-channel access protocols

Applications

?Multimedia services

?Home IPTV

?WiMax

?Broadband home networking communications

?Emergency/disaster

?Telemedicine and e-health

?Smart buildings

?Broadband Internet access

INSTRUCTION FOR THE AUTHORS

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to one of the IARIA Journals.

Important deadlines:

Submission (full paper) February 20, 2010

Notification March 25, 2010

Registration April 15, 2010

Camera ready April 20, 2010

Only .pdf or .doc files will be accepted for paper submission. All received papers will be acknowledged via an automated system.

Final author manuscripts will be 8.5" x 11", not exceeding 6 pages; max 4 extra pages allowed at additional cost. The formatting instructions can be found on the Instructions page. Helpful information for paper formatting can be found on the here.

Your paper should also comply with the additional editorial rules.

Once you receive the notification of paper acceptance, you will be provided by the publisher an online author kit with all the steps an author needs to follow to submit the final version. The author kits URL will be included in the letter of acceptance.

Poster Forum

Posters are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as poster. Submissions are expected to be 6-8 slide deck. Posters will not be published in the Proceedings. One poster with all the slides together should be used for discussions. Presenters will be allocated a space where they can display the slides and discuss in an informal manner. The poster slide decks will be posted on the IARIA site.

For more details, see the Poster Forum explanation page.

Work in Progress

Work-in-progress contributions are welcome. Please submit the contributions following the instructions for the regular submissions using the "Submit a Paper" button and selecting the contribution type as work in progress. Authors should submit a four-page (maximum) text manuscript in IEEE double-column format including the authors' names, affiliations, email contacts. Contributors must follow the conference deadlines, describing early research and novel skeleton ideas in the areas of the conference topics. The work will be published in the conference proceedings.

For more details, see the Work in Progress explanation page

Technical marketing/business/positioning presentations

The conference initiates a series of business, technical marketing, and positioning presentations on the same topics. Speakers must submit a 10-12 slide deck presentations with substantial notes accompanying the slides, in the .ppt format (.pdf-ed). The slide deck will not be published in the conference’s CD Proceedings. Presentations' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your presentations to petreiaria.org.

Tutorials

Tutorials provide overviews of current high interest topics. Proposals should be for three hour tutorials. Proposals must contain the title, the summary of the content, and the biography of the presenter(s). The tutorials' slide decks will be posted on the IARIA's site. Please send your proposals to petreiaria.org

Panel proposals:

The organizers encourage scientists and industry leaders to organize dedicated panels dealing with controversial and challenging topics and paradigms. Panel moderators are asked to identify their guests and manage that their appropriate talk supports timely reach our deadlines. Moderators must specifically submit an official proposal, indicating their background, panelist names, their affiliation, the topic of the panel, as well as short biographies. The panel's slide deck will be posted on the IARIA's site.

For more information, petreiaria.org

Workshop proposals

We welcome workshop proposals on issues complementary to the topics of this conference. Your requests should be forwarded to petreiaria.org.