[Smac-users] IFIP MedHocNet'09 (June 29-July 2, 2009) CFP - Deadline Extended

[Hanan Shpungin]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Please note the new submission deadline!

The 8th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop
Med-Hoc-Net 2009
http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/med-hoc-net2009/index.htm

June 29-July 2, 2009
Haifa, Israel

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:         February 15, 2009 
Notification of acceptance:  April 1, 2009 
Final version due:           April 15, 2009
Conference dates:            June 29-July 2, 2009

OVERVIEW

Wireless ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years. Now, that some of the fundamental issues and challenges have been clearly assessed, the focus is partially shifting to new issues, which include application scenarios (road safety, disaster recovery, sensors and actuators, etc.), autonomous organization and operation, optimization and control, and service creation and support. Moreover, new and exciting challenges are posed by closely related networks such as wireless mesh networks, sensor networks, and vehicular networks.  

Med-Hoc-Net is a major annual international workshop, aiming to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from academia, research labs, and industry. Following Sicily (2006), Corfu (2007), and Palma de Mallorca (2008), Med-Hoc-Net 2009 will take place in Haifa (Israel). It will be held at the Viterbi Computech Center in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

MedHocNet'09 is technically sponsored by the Euro-NF Network of Excellence.

PAPERS

The papers solicited cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc, wireless, sensor, and mesh networks, including but not limited to:

  * Routing algorithms and protocols
  * MAC protocols, scheduling, power control, and resource allocation
  * Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks
  * Middleware for ad hoc networks
  * Application driven architectures and protocols
  * Sensor network applications and protocols
  * Vehicular networks
  * Cognitive radio networks
  * Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks
  * Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes
  * Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, etc.)
  * Self organization and network reconfiguration
  * Optimization models and algorithms
  * Resource and service discovery
  * Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.)
  * Security and privacy

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS or IFIP Series.

Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Submitted papers should address original work not published or under review elsewhere. Submitted manuscripts must be formatted according to the SSBM IFIP Series formats (http://springer.com/series/6102) and should not exceed 12 pages. Papers should be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/7056). All submissions will be reviewed by members of the TPC and experts in the field.

TRAVEL GRANTS

Graduate students with accepted papers will receive travel grants to partially cover travel expenses.
Members of the Euro-NF network will be able to use their mobility budget to attend the workshop. 

GENERAL CHAIR 
Adrian Segall,          Technion

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS 
Reuven Cohen,           Technion
Gil Zussman,            Columbia University

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ozgur Akan,  Middle East Technical University 
Chen Avin,  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 
Amotz Bar-Noy,  Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY, New York 
Chris Blondia,  University of Antwerp 
Steven Borbash,  University of Maryland 
Sem Borst,  Eindhoven University of Technology 
Antonio Capone,  Politecnico di Milano 
Francesca Cuomo,  University of Rome "La Sapienza" 
Francesco De Pellegrini,  CREATE-NET 
Christos Douligeris,  University of Piraeus 
Alon Efrat,  University of Arizona 
Eylem Ekici,  Ohio State University 
Luigi Fratta,  Politecnico di Milano 
Erol Gelenbe,  Imperial College London 
Isabelle Guerin-Lassous,  Universite de Lyon - LIP 
Wendi Heinzelman,  University of Rochester 
Neeraj Jaggi,  Wichita State University 
Liran Katzir,  Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 
Long Le,  MIT 
Emilio Leonardi,  Politecnico di Torino 
Lavy Libman,  NICTA 
Pascal Lorenz,  University of Haute Alsace 
Pietro Manzoni,  Universidad Politecnica de Valencia 
Ibrahim Matta,  Boston University 
Ravi Mazumdar,  University of Waterloo 
Tommaso Melodia,  State University of New York at Buffalo 
Pascale Minet,  INRIA 
Gabi Nakibly,  Israel's National EW Research Center
Guevara Noubir,  Northeastern University 
Yoram Ofek,  Universita di Trento 
Chiara Petrioli,  University of Rome "La Sapienza" 
Dario Pompili,  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 
Danny Raz,  Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 
Zvi Rosberg,  CSIRO, ICT Centre 
Catherine Rosenberg,  University of Waterloo 
Izhak Rubin,  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
David Starobinski,  Boston University 
Hwee Pink Tan,  Institute for Infocomm Research 
Mihaela van der Schaar,  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) 
Anil Vullikanti,  Virginia Tech. 
Stefan Weber,  Trinity College Dublin 
Michael Welzl,  University of Innsbruck 
Murtaza Zafer,  IBM Research 
Michele Zorzi,  Universita degli Studi di Padova 


STEERING COMMITTEE 
Ian F. Akyildiz,        Georgia Institute of Technology
Mario Gerla,            University of California at Los Angeles 
Luigi Fratta,	  	Politecnico di Milano
Farouk Kamoun,          Escole Nationale des Sciences de l'Informatique 
Giovanni Pau,           University of California at Los Angeles 
Guy Pujolle,            Université Paris 6


For more information, please visit http://www.ee.technion.ac.il/med-hoc-net2009/index.htm, or contact the General Chair, Adrian Segall (segall at ee.technion.ac.il), or the Publicity Chair, Hanan Shpungin (shpungin at cs.bgu.ac.il).