RAWNET 2007

http://rawnet.org/

Date of event: April 16, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS
RAWNET 2007
The 3rd workshop on Resource Allocation in Wireless NETworks
(Co-located with IEEE WiOpt 2007, April 16th, Limassol, Cyprus)
This workshop focuses on models and techniques for addressing resource allocation problems in wireless
networks. Resource management in wireless environments is extremely complex due to the specific
characteristics of wireless communications, such as user mobility, interference, the intrinsically scarce
bandwidth, and the highly variable and unpredictable propagation conditions. These features present a vast range
of novel and fundamental challenges as wireless networks evolve to support an expanding variety of data
applications. In particular, data streams have drastically different traffic characteristics and Quality-of-Service
requirements from voice services, urging a radical overhaul of voice-centric air-interface and resource allocation
paradigms. In addition, existing congestion control protocols for data flows like TCP were originally designed
for wire-line networks, and are not well-suited to wireless links which are inherently slow and error-prone. A
further dimension of complexity stems from the growing diversity in network architectures, as wireless LAN's
and ad hoc networks rapidly proliferate, giving rise to a wide spectrum of pricing and routing issues.
Paper submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS system: http://www.edas.info. Authors should
prepare a PDF or a PostScript version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 8 double-column pages,
font size not smaller than 11 points, and can be prepared using the standard IEEE format.
The workshop proceedings will be listed in the IEEEXplore and the IEEE digital library.
Workshop chairs :
Mérouane Debbah (Institut Eurecom)
Mikael Johansson (KTH)
Specific topics of interest include
(but are not limited to) :
• Air-interface scheduling ;
• Cross-layer design ;
• Dimensioning, provisioning and traffic engineering ;
• Load balancing and routing ;
• Models and techniques for optimization of wireless
networks ;
• Performance evaluation methods for wireless
networks ;
• Power control and energy-efficient communication ;
• Pricing and incentive schemes in ad-hoc networks.
Important dates :
Paper submission deadline : December 15, 2006
Notification of acceptance : January 31, 2007
Camera-ready papers due : March 1, 2007
Early registration deadline : March 1, 2007
Technical program comitee :
Randall Berry (Northwestern University)
Thomas Bonald (France Telecom)
Sem Borst (Eindhoven University)
Claudio Casseti (Politecnico di Torino)
Mung Chiang (Princeton University)
David Gesbert (Institut Eurecom)
Michael Honig (Northwestern University)
Riku Jäntti (KTT)
Nihar Jindal (University of Minnesota)
Thierry Klein (Lucent Technologies)
Miguel Lagunas (CTTC)
Ritesh Madan (Qualcomm)
Muriel Medard (MIT)
Daniel Palomar (UST)
Elazouzi Rachid (Université d'Avignon)
Edmund Yeh (Yale University)
Wei Yu (University of Toronto)