WNC^3

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Date of event: April 16, 2007
Submission deadline: December 31, 2006

NC^3

International Workshop on Wireless Networks:
Communication, Cooperation and Competition.

Mediterranean Beach Hotel
April 16 2007
(part of WiOpt 2007 Conference, April 16-20)

Research in the area of wireless communication networks has recently experienced an unprecedented embrace by both industry and academia.  Interest has been fueled by advances that promise exponential gains in the error performance of networks with reduced structure, little central oversight, and limited computational capabilities.  The research area's utility and challenging nature is demonstrated both by the contributions from a variety of disciplines, such as information theory, discrete mathematics, game theory  
and finance, as well as from the effort to unify the above and to bring forth the inherent complexities of multi-terminal communication and interaction.

In pace with the above challenges, the workshop will promote new results which explore the theoretical limitations of network communications, propose novel network coding schemes, present relaying methods and cooperation protocols, and investigate fundamental tradeoffs between cooperation and competition for resource allocation.  The aim being to provide the participants with an in-depth and unifying exposition to the complex nature of analyzing, coding, cooperating and competing in wireless networks, the workshop will seek to expose the intricacies of multi-terminal network theory and the advanced mathematical structures that support network communication and interactions.  In the spirit of a workshop, exposition will accentuate both the unifying aspects as well as  competing nature of different viewpoints. The workshop will consist both of invited talks on recent landmark results as well as solicited contributions.
                    In the framework of communication, cooperation and competition over wireless networks, papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following directions.

Topics of Interest:
·         Cooperative diversity
·         Network coding techniques
·         Information theoretic bounds
·         Stochastic network optimization
·         Queueing theoretic aspects
·         Application of game theory tools
·         Application of sensor networks

Important Dates
·         Manuscript Submission Due:                   December 15, 2006 (extended to December 31, 2006)
·         Notification of Acceptance:                       January 31, 2007
·         Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due:             March 1, 2007


·         Registration details: www.wnc3.org    www.wiopt.org
·         Awards will be offered to distinguished papers
·         Publication: Pending


General Workshop Chair
Charalambos Charalambous, University of Cyprus

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Petros Elia,                USC, USA
Christina Fragouli     EPFL, Switzerland

Scientific Committee Chair
Zhen Zhang               USC, USA

Plenary Speaker:
Professor Babak Hassibi from Caltech will be presenting this year?~@~Ys plenary lecture.

Scientific Committee:
Jean-Claude Belfiore (ENST), Irad Ben-Gal (Tel Aviv University), Sem Borst (Bell Labs), Reuven Cohen (Technion), Hesham El Gamal (Ohio State University), Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland), Elza Erkip (Polytechnic University), Piyush Gupta (Bell Labs), Yezekael Hayel (University of Avignon), Tara Javidi (UCSD), Christos Komninakis (Qualcomm), Nicholas Laneman (Notre Dame), Ivana Maric (Stanford), Urbashi Mitra (USC), Mehul Motani (National University of Singapore), Masoumeh Nasiri-Kenari (Sharif University), Frederique Oggier (Caltech), Ariel Orda (Technion), Ozgur Oyman (Intel), B. Sundar Rajan (IISc-Bangalore), Sumeet Sandhu (Intel), Devavrat Shah (MIT), Emina Soljanin (Bell Labs), Daniela Tuninetti (University of Illinois, Chicago), Sriram Vishwanath (University of Texas, Austin), Joerg Widmer (DoCoMo Euro-Labs), Liang-Liang Xie (University of Waterloo), Feng Xue (Intel).