WMASH 2006

http://wmash.dit.unitn.it/

Date of event: September 29, 2006
Submission deadline: June 16, 2006

Call for Papers

ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services
on
WLAN Hotspots (WMASH) 2006

In conjunction with ACM MobiCom
http://wmash.dit.unitn.it/
September 29, 2006
Los Angeles, California, USA

Important Dates:
. Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006
. Notification to authors: August 4, 2006
. Camera Ready Due: August 18, 2006

WMASH aim:
ACM WMASH aims to address and discuss the technical and business challenges,
ideas, views, and research results in providing public wireless Internet
services and applications for mobile users in small, highly-populated,
public spaces (wireless LANs and "hotspots").

Since the beginning of the workshop in 2003 several research and business
challenges related to public WLAN were put forward. These challenges still
need to be explored and market needs to converge while new developments
continue. The challenges are: What is the overall network architecture and
service model? How to roam through multiple wireless access providers with a
unique service contract? How to decouple the wireless infrastructure
providers from the Internet service (and content) providers? How to locate
service facilities in the wireless access domain and how to match the
available facilities with the user needs? How to exploit location and
context information? How to provide differentiated service levels to
different customers? How to achieve seamless interoperation between
WLAN-based hotspots and cellular and other emerging wireless data networks?
The last challenge, concerning seamless interoperation, is catching the most
attention these days leading to activities in IEEE 802 and in 3GPP to move
quickly towards finding standardized solutions.

This workshop will aim at discussing these and several other challenges and
issues behind the evolution of WLANs from cable replacement to public
access. Leaders and thinkers of the field from academia and industry will
assemble to share their ideas and views. Authors are invited to submit
original technical papers or position papers, describing current research,
experimental work and visions of the future. We are specifically interested
in work dealing with network layer and above (layers 3-7). Within the
context of interest to this workshop, a list of topics includes, but is not
limited to:
. Applications and services
. New service and business models
. Public WLAN and hotspot architectures
. Community-owned WLAN infrastructures
. WLAN-based ad-hoc network service creation and management
. Metro-area hotspots using 802.11/802.16 mesh
. Multi-radio mesh node designs
. Self-configuring mesh networks for public hotspots
. Mobile routers for transient, portable hotspots
. Application case studies of mobile routers
. Inter-working with other wireless systems, e.g., 3G, 802.16
. Mobility, roaming, and handoff management
. Context-aware services and technologies
. Location-aware applications and services
. Multimedia wireless applications, e.g., Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN)
. Authentication, accounting, billing and payment issues
. Security and privacy in public WLANs
. Middleware support
. Service location and discovery
. Traffic measurements and modeling
. Case studies on deployed platforms and experimental test beds

Please consult the Program Co-Chairs Anand R. Prasad
(prasad@docomolab-euro.com) and Sajal K. Das (das@cse.uta.edu) if you are
uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the workshop.

Paper Submission:
The workshop solicits two types of contributions: regular papers and
posters. Submitted regular papers must not be currently under review for any
other publication. The poster session are meant for early research results.
Posters may not preclude concurrent submissions on the same topic in regular
conferences and journals.

All submissions will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members, and
will be judged by their technical merit, originality, and relevance to the
workshop. All accepted regular papers and poster descriptions will be
published in the workshop proceedings, which will be available at the ACM
digital library. Selected regular papers will also be included in a special
issue of an ACM journal. The page limits for a regular paper and a poster
description are 10 and 3 pages, respectively. All submissions will be
handled electronically via the EDAS system. The exact format of the
submission should be referred to the submission guideline at the workshop
home page.

We expect authors of accepted papers/posters will attend the workshop and
present their work.

Organizing Committee:
General Chair
. Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy

Technical Program Co-Chairs
. Anand R. Prasad, Docomo Euro Labs, Germany
. Sajal Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Publicity Chair and Web Master
. Danilo Severina, University of Trento, Italy

Publications Chair
. Sumantra Kundu The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Steering Committee:
. Parviz Kermani, IBM Research, USA - Committee Chair
. Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
. Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs, USA
. Sungyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea  


Tentative Technical Program Committee:
. Nilanjan Banerjee, Motorola India Research Lab, Bangalore
. Milind Buddhikot, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
. Andrew Campbell, Columbia University
. Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino
. Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida
. Yatin Chawathe, Intel Research at Seattle
. Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University
. Marco Conti, CNR - Instituto CNUCE
. Laura Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
. Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research
. Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa
. Javier Gomez, National University of Mexico
. Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy
. Xingang Guo, Intel Corp.
. Giulio Iannello, University of Rome
. Kyunghun Jang, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
. Byoung-Jo Kim, AT&T Labs - Research
. Young-bae Ko, Ajou University
. John Krumm, Microsoft Research
. Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs
. Yui-Wah Lee, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
. John Lin, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
. Yonghe Liu, The University of Texas at Arlington
. Stefan Mangold, Swisscom Innovations
. Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center
. Saishankar Nandagopalan, Philips Research USA
. Saverio Niccolini, NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories
. George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business
. Neeli Prasad, Aalborg University
. Daji Qiao, Iowa State University
. Bill Schilit, Intel Research
. Puneet Sharma, HP Labs
. Rajeev Shorey, GM Research Lab, Bangalore
. Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology
. Young-Joo Suh, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
. Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo
. Yang Xiao, University of Memphis
. Gergely Zaruba, The University of Texas at Arlington