The 4th International workshop on Wireless Measurements (WiNMee 2008)

http://www.winmee.org/

Date of event: March 31, 2008
Submission deadline: December 10, 2007
Registration deadline: March 1, 2008

In the last years we assisted to a growing interest, in the research community and in the standardization bodies, in the experimental characterizations of wireless networks. There has been a proliferation of testbeds and experimental measurements devised to provide an “actual” performance evaluation of different technological solutions. In fact, both the analytical and the simulative approaches have appeared to be limited, because of the simplifications due to the protocol modeling or to the statistical characterization of the time-varying error-prone wireless channel. However, there are several problems which arise even in experimentally characterizing wireless networks. First, each test represents the interaction between a vendor-specific hardware and an experiment-specific environment. The reproducibility of the experiments and the comparison between experiments carried out in different labs, with different equipments or in different moments is a critical issue. Second, each vendor-specific card could hide some unexpected and undisclosed protocol operations, devised to win the competition with the other vendors, which might eventually impact the generalization and the significance of the results. Third, the evaluation of network performance in rare working conditions or in some specific events is not always feasible, because it requires sophisticated experimental settings or measurement collections.

Specific topics of interest

• operational experience on the performance of wireless networks
• challenges with wireless measurements
• experimental (in)validation of usually made assumptions in a wireless environment
• metrics that would be required in a wireless network for performance evaluation or wireless network troubleshooting
• experience from building/designing wireless networks
• description of tools for building and/or managing wireless testbeds (e.g. wireless link emulation)
• techniques for scaling the testbed
• techniques for improving the repeatability of tests
• techniques for validating and comparing the results obtained in the wireless testbed
• methods for simplifying experiment setup and reconfiguration
• mobility pattern implementation

Submission guidelines

Paper submissions will be handled electronically via Cocus. Authors should prepare a PDF or a PostScript version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 double-column pages, font size not smaller than 11 points, using the standard IEEE format.

The workshop proceedings will be listed in the IEEEXplore and IEEE digital library.