Workshop on
Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks: Urban Legends and Reality (WAHOC'07)
Wisla,
Poland, October 15-17, 2007
As a concept,
wireless ad-hoc networking has been around for at least
20 years, but, despite the extensive coverage in
academic literature, its practical success so far has
been less than spectacular. Most contemporary attempts
at exploiting the ad-hoc paradigm in real-life
applications fall into the realm of sensor networks,
where it promises low-cost, ease of deployment,
flexibility, reliability, resilience and ubiquity.
However, few practical deployments of sensor networks
are actually ad-hoc based: there seems to be a
considerable reluctance in the industrial world to
embrace "mesh networking," and most actual
solutions are based on asymmetric schemes involving
various flavors of base stations. The purpose of this
workshop is to get to the roots of that reluctance. We
solicit papers addressing the practical aspects of
ad-hoc wireless networking, with stress on case studies
and empirical verification of ideas. We shall not shy
away from negative conclusions, as long as they are well
supported.
The list of topics includes
(but is not limited to):
- Routing
protocols for ad-hoc wireless networks
- Medium
access control schemes
- Modeling
methodologies for wireless channels
- Simulation
systems and techniques
- Performance
studies and comparisons
- Case
studies (ad-hoc networks at work)
- Security
issues in ad-hoc networking
- Asymmetric
wireless networks with ad-hoc components
- Cooperation
issues at the MAC and network layers
- Pricing
and incentive arbitration in ad hoc mesh topologies
Papers Submission
- Authors
should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of
MSWord file).
- The
total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages
(LNCS style). LNCS style templates are available here.
- Papers
will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
- Accepted
and presented papers
will be included in the Conference Proceedings and
published on a CD (ISSN 1896-7094).
- Selected papers presented during
WAHOC'07 will be published as in Issue of the Journal of Telecommunications and
Information Technology.