WLN 2004
Fourth International
IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks

Tampa, Florida

To be held in conjunction with
The 29th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2004) November 16-18, 2004

The workshop will be a full-day event on Tuesday November 16th.

Keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer

Page index:

• New! Updated November 05th: Final Program of WLN 2004
• General Infos/Topics of Interest
• Keynote on "Wireless Networking Outside of the Simulator" (by Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer)
  
• Paper Submission (closed)
• Workshop & Program Co-Chairs + Standing Committee
• Program Committee
• Prior WLN workshops

WLN 2004, the 4th international IEEE Workshop on Wireless Local Networks, will be a one-day workshop, held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). The workshop will bring together networking researchers, engineers, and practitioners with participants from industry, academia, and government.

Based on the success of the preceding workshops, we are interested in visionary, experimental, systems-related and work in-progress papers in the area of local and personal wireless, mobile, ad hoc and home networking. Papers should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal.

Topics of interest:

• Wireless LAN and PAN media access techniques and protocols
• Energy efficiency in protocol and systems design
• Mobility management in wireless networks
• User mobility models and workloads
• Wireless environment simulation modelling
• Location dependant/personalised wireless applications
• Security issues in WLANs/WPANs
• Ad hoc networking
• Ad hoc routing protocols and algorithms
• Transport protocols for ad hoc networks
• Self configuration for ad hoc networks
• Mobile ad hoc computing platforms and testbeds
• Wireless ad-hoc network simulation techniques
• Interoperability issues between wireless standards/protocols and the Internet
• Performance of Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 networks
• Multiple wireless protocol coexistence issues
• Quality of Service issues in local wireless networks
• Wireless multimedia network architectures and protocols
• Resource allocation in wireless LANs

Keynote: Wireless Networking Outside of the Simulator

Latest news:

About the speaker:
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara

Elizabeth M. Belding-Royer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She completed her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara in 2000.

Elizabeth's research focuses on mobile networking, specifically routing protocols, multimedia, monitoring, and advanced service support. Elizabeth is the author of numerous papers related to ad hoc networking and has served on many program committees for networking conferences. Elizabeth is currently the co-chair of the IRTF Ad hoc Network Scalability (ANS) Research Group and is also on the editorial board for the Elsevier Science Ad hoc Networks Journal, as well as for Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R). Elizabeth is also the recipient of a 2002 Technology Review 100 award, awarded to the world's top young investigators. She a member of the IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, ACM, and ACM SIGMOBILE.

See http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ebelding for further details.

Abstract: Wireless Networking Outside of the Simulator

Simulation is an important tool in the development of mobile ad hoc networks. It provides an excellent environment to experiment and verify routing protocol correctness because it has a number of important benefits. These include repeatability, isolation of parameters, and the ability to explore a variety of parameters. However, simulation does not guarantee that the protocol works in practice because simulators contain assumptions and simplified models that may not actually reflect real network operation. For instance, most widely used mobility models do not create realistic movement scenarios. While they create a dynamic environment that can be used to stress a protocol in a mobile network, they do not generate realistic movement patterns. Previous work has shown that the selection of mobility model directly influences the performance of the routing protocol. Hence, the use of an unrealistic model results in predictions that do not reflect achievable performance in the real world. Other sources of predication inaccuracy stem from the omission of relevant protocols models, such as up-to-date IEEE 802.11 models.

As a result of these simplifications, inaccuracies and omissions in commonly used simulators, mobile network performance can be incorrectly predicted. In particular, the performance of field networks can be orders of magnitude worse than the simulated performance of the same network. This poses a serious problem for mobile networking researchers, who are heavily invested in simulation as a tool for network development and evaluation. In this talk we will describe some of the disparities between predicted and measured performance, and discuss mechanisms for bridging this gap.

Paper Submission:

Authors are invited to submit papers of up to eight (8) camera-ready pages (10 pt according to IEEE formatting instructions), in PDF or PostScript format, for presentation at the workshop. All papers must include title, complete contact information (including e-mail addresses) for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. Clearly indicate the corresponding author.

Please use our electronic submission system to submit your paper to WLN 2004: Visit http://wln2004.cs.bonn.edu/regist and carefully (!) follow the instructions given in the WWW forms and by E-Mail.

If you should have problems or questions, please feel free to contact wln2004@cs.bonn.edu

Important Dates:

Notification of acceptance by e-mail is tentatively scheduled not later than July 28, 2004, and final camera-ready papers will be due from authors by August 25, 2004. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the workshop/LCN conference by August 20, 2004, in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings and to be scheduled for presentation.

Note: Formatting instructions for papers submitted to the WLN Workshop are almost the same as for full papers at the LCN conference (in 2004: full paper = 8 pages). More information is available from the previous LCN conferences, e.g. see http://lcn2002.cs.bonn.edu/formatinstru.html.

Workshop & Program Co-Chairs:

Standing Committee:

Program Committee:

• Huseyin Arslan, University of South Florida, USA
• Mostafa Bassiouni, University of Central Florida, USA
• Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Benny Bing, Georgia Tech, USA
• Azzedine Boukerche, University of North of Texas, USA
• Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA
• Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA
• Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Song Ci, University of Michigan-Flint, USA
• Ehab Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada
• Matthias Frank, University of Bonn, Germany
• Michael Gerharz, University of Bonn, Germany
• Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA
• Sungbum Hong, Jackson State University, USA
• Holger Karl, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
• Wayne Li, University of Toledo, USA
• Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Jogesh K. Muppala, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Nidal Nasser, Queen's University, Canada
• Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK
• Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil
• David Simplot-Ryl, University of Lille, France
• Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Terry Todd, McMaster University, Canada
• Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Demokritos University, Greece
• Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada
• Kui Wu, University of Victoria, Canada
• Yang Xiao, University of Memphis, USA
• Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
• Michele Zorzi, University of Ferrara, Italy

Information from prior WLN workshops:

• WLN 2003, held on October 21, 2003, in Bonn/Königswinter, Germany.