Subject: [manet] MLMD'06; Deadline extended to Feb 28

From: Alhussein Abouzeid <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:02:45 -0500

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Workshop on Multi-Layer Modelling and Design of  Multi-Hop Wireless Networks (MLMD’06),
to be held in conjunction with the 12th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'2006), 
July 12-15, 2006, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
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Sponsored by:   
  
*  The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing.   
*   The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing.The proceedings will be published by the IEEE, and available online on IEEE Xplore.

Workshop Scope:
This workshop will present and discuss recent results that capture the performance and design tradeoffs when multiple layers interact, as they do, in wireless multi-hop networks. The layered architecture view of networks has allowed various experts to work independently to optimize the performance at their level of abstraction. Wireless multi-hop networks have challenged the benefits of this approach, at least from a performance perspective. The fact that in most sensor networks the performance and purpose are tightly coupled with a physical phenomenon increases the coupling between the top and bottom layers of the reference network protocols stack. Furthermore, we are witnessing an increasing interest in terms of what the design of the Internet would be if we have the chance to do it all from scratch.
Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Joint optimization of multiple layers 
- Joint modelling and performance evaluation of multiple layers 
- Communication/computation methods and abstractions 
- Techniques and models of medium access, aggregation, routing, and compression that explicitly account for multiple layers 
- Designs leveraging recent technologies (e.g. software radio) and their performance 
- Designs allowing co-existence in crowded shared spectrum 
- Network reliability issues including quality of service 
- Multi-layer security in a distributed environment 

Technical Program Committee:
Eylem Ekici                     Ohio State University, OH, USA
Hesham Elgamal              Ohio State University, OH, USA
Martin Haenggi                 University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
Ekram Hossain                University of Manitoba, MB, Canada
Koushik Kar                      Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
Ulas Kozat                        Docomo Labs, USA
Bhaskar Krishnamachari    University of Southern California, CA, USA
Hussein Mouftah               University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Tarek Saadawi                  City University of New York, NY, USA
Biplab Sikdar                    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
Ivan Stojmenovic               University Of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Rajiv Vijayakumar             University of Washington, WA, USA
Yanyong Zhang                Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Rong Zheng                     University of Houston, TX, USA
 
Workshop Chair:
Alhussein Abouzeid
Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th St, Troy, NY 12180
http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/homepages/abouzeid
[email-masked]

Location and Duration:
This is a one day workshop. The workshop will be held in association with ICPADS’2006, which will be in Minneapolis, MN. The exact venue will be announced later.

Important Dates:
Paper Submission: February 28, 2006 (new deadline)
Notification:     April 1, 2006
Final Manuscript: April 15, 2006

Submission Guidelines:
The proceedings will be published by the IEEE. 
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submitted papers should be formatted in a two-column IEEE Computer Society format (URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm) and should not exceed 6 pages including figures and references. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or postscript) by sending it as an e-mail attachment to [email-masked] with title ``MLMD’06 Submission:’’ followed by the paper title. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. 

Workshop Homepage:
http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/homepages/abouzeid/MLMD/MLMD.html    

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