2nd workshop on Wireless Network Measurements (WiNMee 2006)

http://www.winmee.org/

Date of event: April 3, 2006
Submission deadline: December 4, 2005

WiNMee 2006  will be the second international workshop on Wireless Network Measurement. The first workshop, Winmee 2005, was held in Lago di Gardi, Italy and was highly successful with 32 submissions and 13 accepted papers. This year we hope to build on the success of last year by bringing researchers together to discuss the next generation of wireless network measurement research. Wireless networking has attracted much recent interest. Nonetheless, performance evaluation of wireless protocols, networks, and applications are still largely based on simulations. Only recently have researchers turned their attention to measuring real-world networks; building models based on real-world data and using testbeds to more realistically evaluate their proposed ideas. Accurate network measurements have proven to be a different and a greater challenge than in wired networks. Accurate data models that reflect the unique characteristics of wireless networks have also proven to be more of a challenge. Wireless network testbeds have proven to be yet another hard environments in which to work due to the many unique properties of the wireless medium. For example, results in wireless testbeds are often difficult to reproduce due to performance variations caused by location,weather, time of day, and other uncontrollable external variables.Testbeds are also challenging because implementing novel solutions often requires significant changes to the network as well as careful observation and measurement.

The committee for WiNMee 2005 is soliciting 6 page papers that report on experiences obtained from operational wireless experiments,either in testbeds or in the field. Topics include:

• Operational experience on the performance of wireless networks
• Challenges with wireless measurements
• Experimental (in)validation of usually made assumptions in a wireless environments
• Metrics for wireless network for performance evaluation
• Wireless network troubleshooting techniques and recommendations
• Experience with building/designing wireless networks
• Description of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds (e.g. wireless link emulation)
• Techniques for testbed scaling
• Techniques for improving experiment repeatability
• Techniques for validating results obtained from wireless testbeds
• Methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration
• Mobility pattern implementation

Submitted paper should have measurement as subject or use measurements to validate their results to be in the scope of the conference.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: December 4, 2005
Notification deadline: January 26, 2006
Camera-ready due: February 26, 2006

Submission instructions

The submitted paper should not exceed 6 pages in length and can be formatted in two columns with a point size greater or equal to 10.

Author Final Preparation and Submission Instructions

Pending

Workshop chairs

Kevin C. Almeroth (University California, Santa Barbara), Kavé Salamatian (LIP6-University Pierre et Marie Curie)

Technical Program Committee

Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA
Chadi Barakat, INRIA , France
Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, UC-Santa Barbara, USA
Andrew Campbell, Dartmouth , USA
Ahmed Helmy, USC, USA
Tristan Henderson, Dartmouth, USA
Ed Knightly, Rice University , USA
Josep Mangues, CTTC, Spain
Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel Research , UK
Ashu Sabharwal, Rice University, USA
Kave Salamatian, LIP6 , France
Suresh Singh, Portland State University, USA
Aruna Seneviratne, National ICT, Australia
Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France
Thomas Ziegler, FTW , Austria