From severina at dit.unitn.it Mon Jun 5 10:50:30 2006 From: severina at dit.unitn.it (Danilo Severina) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:50:30 +0200 Subject: [sigcomm] CFP: WMASH2006 Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20060605194857.01e61d10@brenta.dit.unitn.it> [Apologies if you receive this more than once] ============================================== Call for Papers WMASH 2006 The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots Los Angeles, California, USA September 29, 2006 http://wmash06.dit.unitn.it ============================================== ACM WMASH aims to address and discuss the technical and business challenges, ideas, views, and research results in providing public wireless Internet services and applications for mobile users in small, highly-populated, public spaces (wireless LANs and "hotspots"). Since the beginning of the workshop in 2003 several research and business challenges related to public WLAN were put forward. These challenges still need to be explored and market needs to converge while new developments continue. The challenges are: What is the overall network architecture and service model? How to roam through multiple wireless access providers with a unique service contract? How to decouple the wireless infrastructure providers from the Internet service (and content) providers? How to locate service facilities in the wireless access domain and how to match the available facilities with the user needs? How to exploit location and context information? How to provide differentiated service levels to different customers? How to achieve seamless interoperation between WLAN-based hotspots and cellular and other emerging wireless data networks? The last challenge, concerning seamless interoperation, is catching the most attention these days leading to activities in IEEE 802 and in 3GPP to move quickly towards finding standardized solutions. This workshop will aim at discussing these and several other challenges and issues behind the evolution of WLANs from cable replacement to public access. Leaders and thinkers of the field from academia and industry will assemble to share their ideas and views. Authors are invited to submit original technical papers or position papers, describing current research, experimental work and visions of the future. We are specifically interested in work dealing with network layer and above (layers 3-7). Within the context of interest to this workshop, a list of topics includes, but is not limited to: . Applications and services . New service and business models . Public WLAN and hotspot architectures . Community-owned WLAN infrastructures . WLAN-based ad-hoc network service creation and management . Metro-area hotspots using 802.11/802.16 mesh . Multi-radio mesh node designs . Self-configuring mesh networks for public hotspots . Mobile routers for transient, portable hotspots . Application case studies of mobile routers . Interworking with other wireless systems, e.g., 3G, 802.16 . Mobility, roaming, and handoff management . Context-aware services and technologies . Location-aware applications and services . Multimedia wireless applications, e.g., Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) . Authentication, accounting, billing and payment issues . Security and privacy in public WLANs . Middleware support . Service location and discovery . Traffic measurements and modeling . Case studies on deployed platforms and experimental testbeds Important dates: Paper Submission Deadline: June 16, 2006 Notification: August 4, 2006 Camera Ready Due: August 18, 2006 - Organizing Committees General Chair Renato Lo Cigno, University of Trento, Italy Technical Program Co-Chairs Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Anand Prasad, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany Web Master and Publicity Chair Danilo Severina, University of Trento, Italy Publications Chair Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA - Steering Commettes Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea Parviz Kermani, IBM Research, USA Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs, USA Please consult the Program Co-Chairs Sajal K. Das (das at cse.uta.edu) and Anand Prasad (prasad at docomolab-euro.com) if you are uncertain whether your paper falls within the scope of the workshop. From jrex at CS.Princeton.EDU Tue Jun 6 19:45:32 2006 From: jrex at CS.Princeton.EDU (Jennifer Rexford) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 22:45:32 -0400 Subject: [sigcomm] Health of Conferences Committee Message-ID: <016701c689dc$729844f0$435f7080@Rexford> Hi folks, ACM has been collecting information from each of the SIGs on best/innovative practices in organizing conferences. A Wiki at http://wiki.acm.org/healthcc posts the results. You can add/edit the information via the Wiki. 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