WiNTECH 2007

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/wintech07/

Date of event: September 10, 2007
Submission deadline: May 21, 2007
Registration deadline: May 18, 2007

WiNTECH 2007: The Second ACM International Workshop on Wireless
Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation and CHaracterization

A workshop in MobiCom 2007
10 Sep 2007, Montreal, QC, Canada

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. The importance of testbed-based evaluation of
wireless network protocols/applications as well as characterization of
real-world aspects using traces from operational networks is gaining
wider recognition in the mobile and wireless networking research
community.

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We are seeking original, previously unpublished papers addressing
experimental wireless networking issues. 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.

Apart from regular paper presentations, the workshop program will
include 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 deployments
• 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, including

      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 different

      evaluation methodologies

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

      aspects of wireless networks 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

• Paper registration deadline: Fri 18 May 2007, 23:59 EDT
• Paper submission deadline (extended): Mon 21 May 2007, 23:59 EDT
• Author notification: Mon 25 Jun 2007
• Poster/demo submission deadline: Mon 02 Jul 2007, 23:59 EDT
• Poster/demo notification: Mon 09 Jul 2007
• Camera ready papers: Mon 16 Jul 2007, 23:59 EDT
• Workshop date: Mon 10 Sep 2007

WiNTECH'07 Website

    http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/wintech07/

TPC chairs:

Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University
  (prs [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu)
Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Kanpur
  (braman [at] cse [dot] iitk [dot] ac [dot] in)

Steering Committee:

Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA
Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh
Edward Knightly, Rice University
Joe Evans, University of Kansas

TPC members:

Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA
Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin
Ian Chakeres, Motorola
Kameswari Chebrolu, IIT Kanpur
Tzi-Cker Chiueh, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California
Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews
Glenn Judd, Carnegie Mellon University
Edward Knightly, Rice University
Henrik Lundgren, Thomson Research
Mahesh Marina, The University of Edinburgh
Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Vikram Srinivasan, National University of Singapore
Mani Srivastava, University of California, Los Angeles
Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin
Haitao Zheng, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara