[sigcomm] CFP: WMASH2006

[Danilo Severina]

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                               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

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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.