Call For Papers

Multi-hop wireless ad hoc and sensor networks are self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes within communication range of each other that form temporary network's infrastructure. Ad hoc wireless networks allow anywhere, anytime network connectivity with lack of centralized control, ownership, and regulatory influence. The last few years have witnessed a wealth of research ideas on ad hoc and sensor networks that are moving rapidly into commercialization and standardization. Such networks can be randomly and rapidly deployed and reconfigured and easily tailored to specific applications including, among others, emergency search-and-rescue operations, decision making in the battlefield, and data acquisition operations. Sensor networks have already entered many aspects of our lives. Wireless sensors can be deployed in almost any environment, especially where conventional wired sensor systems are impossible, unavailable, or inaccessible, such as in inhospitable terrains, dangerous battlefields, outer space, or deep oceans. Moreover, an ad hoc architecture is highly robust to node failure and can provide a high level of fault tolerance due to nodal redundancy and its distributed nature. Furthermore, energy efficiency can be achieved through multi-hop routing communication. Bandwidth reuse can also benefit from dividing the single long range hop into multiple short hops with each hop having a shorter range. Several challenges are standing in the way to achieving ubiquitous deployment of ad hoc and sensor networks. These include variable topology, device heterogeneity, limited power supply and the lack of effective energy-efficient design, lack of QoS and application support, etc.

This symposium aims at providing a forum for sharing ideas among researchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions to the above challenges. We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of ad hoc and sensor networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• New and unconventional applications of ad hoc and sensor networks
• Novel architectural design and operation models
• Wireless sensor and actor networks
• Wireless multimedia and 3-D sensor networks
• Underwater sensor networks
• Underground sensor networks
• Sensor networks for biomedical applications
• Cognitive radio networks in multi-hop environments
• Wireless mesh and community networks
• Wireless PANs and LANs
• Pervasive and wearable computing
• RFID systems
• Delay-tolerant ad hoc networks
• Co-existence issues of hybrid networks
• Wireless, ad hoc, and sensor devices
• Radio for ad-hoc and sensor networks
• Ultra wide band technology for ad hoc and sensor networks
• Physical layer design of ad hoc networks
• RF channel capacity modeling and analysis
• Self organization and autonomic networking (incl. vehicular networks)
• Service discovery in ad-hoc and sensor networks
• MAC protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks
• Frequency and channel allocation algorithms
• IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15, and Bluetooth based medium access control
• New standards for ad hoc and sensor networks
• Energy saving and power control protocols
• Energy scavenging technologies
• Mobile services and QoS management
• Ubiquitous and mobile access
• Security and privacy issues
• Deployment and coverage analysis of sensor networks
• Node placement strategies
• Localization algorithms and ranging technologies
• Routing and multicasting protocols
• Topology control and management
• In-network processing and data storage
• Data aggregation and query processing techniques
• Multimedia processing in sensor networks
• Location and context aware services
• Cross-layer design and optimization
• Quality of service provisioning and management
• Scheduling and resource management algorithms
• Mobility management and modeling
• Power management and control
• Synchronization and coordination techniques in ad hoc and sensor networks
• Lightweight and non-intrusive network monitoring algorithms
• Vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures
• Security architectures and protocols
• Fault-tolerance and traffic reliability issues
• Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling
• Performance models, metrics and evaluation tools
• Formal models and validation techniques
• Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and ad hoc networks
• Integrated simulation and measurement based evaluation
• Experimental prototypes and testbeds
• New simulation languages, methodologies, and tools
• Programming abstractions for ad hoc and sensor networks

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Symposium Co-Chairs:

Professor Guoliang (Larry) Xue Department of Computer Science and Engineering Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-8809, USA Email: xue AT asu DOT edu

Professor Hongchi Shi Department of Computer Science Texas State University San Marcos, TX 78666 Email: hs15 AT txstate DOT edu

Professor Mohamed Younis Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore County Baltimore, MD 21250 Email: younis AT cs DOT umbc DOT edu

Professor Tommaso Melodia Department of Electrical Engineering University at Buffalo, the State University of New York Buffalo, NY 14260-1920 Email: tmelodia AT eng DOT buffalo DOT edu

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