CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

MESSAGE FROM THE GENERAL CHAIR

MESSAGE FROM THE TECHNICAL CO-CHAIRS

Welcome to WiOpt 2006

4th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization
in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks

April 3-7, Boston, Massachusetts




Scope of the Symposium

The complexity of mobile, ad hoc, and wireless networks requires thoroughly founded models capturing their essential characteristics and new optimization techniques building upon such models. Insights into both the theoretical aspects of these problems as well as practical methods and tools are necessary. This symposium intends to bring together researchers and practitioners working on optimization issues from different perspectives, including performance analysis, mobile networking, wireless communication, and optimization theory.

Contributions to this conference should show new modeling and optimization techniques suitable for mobile/wireless networks or innovative applications of these techniques to improve network operation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Modeling techniques and tools for wireless networks
Performance characterization & optimization of wireless networks
Wireless network optimization: Applications, algorithms, and tools
Protocol design for optimal wireless network utilization
Models and optimization approaches for energy efficiency, QoS, bandwidth economy and other aspects of wireless networks
Models and optimization techniques for non-standard network paradigms like sensor, vehicular, body area networks
Security and co-operation models for mobile and ad hoc networks
Pricing and incentives in wireless networks
Game theoretic techniques for mobile/wireless networks

Submissions

Papers should be submitted as extended abstracts of up to 8 pages with single column format and one-and-a-half line spacing, and contain sufficient information to allow for a detailed review. Papers should be submitted in pdf or ps format through the EDAS system. The final manuscript will be 10 pages in double column format. The proceedings will be published by IEEE and accepted papers will be available online via the IEEE website.

Special Journal Issue

Selected papers from WiOpt 2006 will appear in a special issue of ACM/Kluwer Monet.

Adjunct Workshops

Several one-day workshops will accompany the main WiOpt Symposium:

WiNMee 2006 : Measurement in Wireless Networks

RAWNET 2006 : Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks

SPASWIN 2006: Spatial Stochastic Models for Wireless Networks

NETCOD 2006 : Network Coding, Theory, and Applications

Best Student Paper Award

There will be the best student paper award. A student must be the first author to be eligible for the award (unless the order is alphabetical) and must present the paper. The decision will be made by the program committee based on the paper content as well as on the presentation. In order to be a candidate for the award, please send an email to the general chair and the program chairs along with an email from the adviser certifying that the student has had a major contribution in the paper.

Sponsorship