WiNTECH 2006

http://chenyen.cs.ucla.edu/events/wintech06/

Date of event: September 29, 2006
Submission deadline: June 19, 2006
Registration deadline: May 25, 2006

The First International Workshop on

Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization
(WiNTECH 2006)

in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006

September 29, 2006

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE

  
   Overview and Scope


    In recent years, some wireless technologies (e.g., WiFi, sensor networks)
   have matured to the point of finding wide acceptance in the real-world and
   leading to many new and interesting applications. At the same time, several
   new networking and radio technologies (e.g., dynamic spectrum access, UWB)
   are emerging to address the performance limitations of existing technologies
   and make wireless networking more ubiquitous. Realistic evaluation of such
   diverse set of technologies and their mutual interactions will play a major
   role in identifying the key performance bottlenecks, thus shape future
   advances in wireless technology. With this in mind, this workshop intends to
   bring  together  researchers working in the broad area of experimental
   wireless  networking. This workshop will serve as a forum to share new
   ideas/experiences in all experimental aspects of wireless networks and
   systems, and facilitate discussions of key unresolved challenges in this
   area.
   We are seeking original, previously unpublished work addressing experimental
   wireless networking issues. The workshop program will include regular paper
   presentations and an interactive session with demos and posters. We welcome
   demonstrations  of  novel  wireless  network  testbed capabilities and
   measurement results. The posters may describe work in progress and offers an
   excellent opportunity for feedback and discussions on early research.


   Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Design and evaluation of wireless testbeds, prototypes and platforms
• Experiences/lessons from recent testbed design efforts
• Hybrid experimentation approaches combining use of multiple evaluation

       methodologies

• Integration of diverse and distributed testbed infrastructures
• Testbed management issues and monitoring support
• Wireless testbed case studies
• Experimental evaluation of applications and protocols (at different

       layers), and the impact of cross-layer interactions

• Large-scale and heterogeneous wireless network evaluations
• Approaches for real-world evaluation of mobile networks
• Evaluation environments for sensor and satellite networks
• Techniques for improving reproducibility of real-world testing
• Implementation approaches to ease transition between various evaluation

       methodologies as well as to improve testbed accessibility

• New measurement methodologies and infrastructures
• Measurement  and characterization (modeling) of various real-world

       aspects  such  as  usage  patterns,  traffic, mobility and channel
       characteristics

• Interference and spectrum usage measurements
• Validation of existing simulation models, and results across different

       testbeds/evaluation methodologies

• Software tools in support of measurements, trace/data collection and

       management


   Important Dates

• Submission deadline: June 19, 2006
• Author notification: July 21, 2006
• Camera ready papers: August 11, 2006
• Workshop date: September 29, 2006

   Organizing Committee
  
   Technical Program Co-Chairs

• Rajive Bagrodia (UCLA)
• Mahesh Marina (UCLA)

    Technical Program Committee

• Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research)
• Elizabeth Belding-Royer (UCSB)
• Tzi-cker Chiueh (SUNY-Stony Brook)
• Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy)
• Edward Coyle (Purdue)
• Christophe Diot (Thomson Paris Research Lab)
• Joe Evans (University of Kansas)
• Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Tech)
• Ravi Jain (Google)
• Vikas Kawadia (BBN)
• Ed Knightly (Rice University)
• Jay Lepreau (University of Utah)
• Prasant Mohapatra (UC-Davis)
• Dina Papagiannaki (Intel Research Cambridge)
• Dipankar Raychauduri (Rutgers)
• Mani Srivastava (UCLA)
• Peter Steenkiste (CMU)
• Mineo Takai (UCLA)
• Adam Wolisz (TU-Berlin)

   Poster/Demo Chair

• Maneesh Varshney (UCLA)

   Publications Chair

• Henrik Lundgren (UCSB)

   Web Chair

• Yi Yang (UCLA)

   Submission Instructions
   All submissions will be handled electronically. Regular paper submissions
   should  conform  to  the  following requirements: EIGHT 8.5"x11" pages
   (including figures, tables, and references) in two-column format using
   10-point size or greater and reasonable margins; they must use PDF format.
   For demo/poster submissions, authors should prepare an extended abstract no
   longer than TWO pages, including all figures and references. All submissions
   will be judged by their technical merit and relevance to the workshop, based
   on a thorough review process by the Technical Program Committee. Besides the
   regular papers, the extended abstracts of the accepted posters and demos
   will also be published in the workshop proceedings and will be available via
   the ACM digital library.