CFP: Workshop on Wireless Multihop Communications in Networked Robotics (WMCNR 2008)]

The First Workshop on Wireless Multihop Communications in Networked Robotics
(WMCNR 2008)
April 4th, Berlin, Germany
<http://www.wmcnr.org>
http://www.wmcnr.org

in conjunction with 6th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and
Optimization
in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks
(WiOpt'08)
March 31-April 4, Berlin, Germany

http://www.wiopt.org

Call for papers: http://www.wmcnr.org/CFP_WMCNR2008.pdf

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*** Paper submission deadline: November 18, 2007
*** Submission guidelines will be announced at workshop webpage

Call for Papers

The wireless multihop communication has been one of key research issues in
recent years both in academia
and wireless industry. It encompasses ad hoc radio networks, sensor
networks, wireless mesh networks and
mobile multihop relay related to the industrial and standardization
activities such as IEEE 802.11s, 802.15.4, 802.16j, etc.
Further the multihop communications can be combined with cooperative
communications and network coding,
which attracted more researchers in this field.

The idea behind such multihop communications is to utilize the availability
of other nodes or to borrow their
transmission capability. This in many cases exceeds the delay caused by the
multihop relay, the gain
from which is capacity enhancement as well as coverage extension of plain
radio networks.

Now we turn our attention to the robotics area. In these days, many
researchers are noticing group behaviors found in
small insects or animals such as ants, birds, and fish, trying to realize
such behaviors into the control and
coordination of a team of robots with their local interaction. The multiple
(usually small) robots communicate each
other, sharing the same mission, naturally through wireless communications.
In this respect, wireless multihop
communication is an excellent candidate for inter-robot information
exchange.

The main idea of this workshop is to bridge the above two areas (wireless
multihop communications and networked
robotics) by opening a place for researchers to meet and exchange their
ideas. The workshop welcomes
submissions on all aspects of the themes, which include (but not limited to)
the following topics:

- Communication architecture for collaborative robot systems
- Biologically inspired swarm robotics with networking functionality
- Multiple robot networking with mutihop- and cooperative communications
- Network coding and wireless relay technologies for cooperative robotics
- Learning and adaptation in cooperative environments
- Applications of multi-robot network systems
- Ad hoc robot networks
- Cognitive communication technologies for inter-robot team work
- Exploiting robot mobility in wireless relay networks
- QoS support in networked robotics
- Wireless multihop networks under node mobility

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Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: November 18, 2007
Notification of acceptance: January 5, 2008
Camera-ready papers due: February 1, 2008

Submission guidelines will be announced at workshop webpage
http://www.wmcnr.org

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Workshop Chair:

Seong-Lyun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (slkim@yonsei.ac.kr)

Technical Programming Chairs:

Riku Jäntti, Helsinki Univ. Tech., Finland (wireless communications,
riku.jantti@tkk.fi)
DaeEun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (networked robotics, daeeun@yonsei.ac.kr)

Technical Programming Committee:

Timothy Brown, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, USA
Wolfram Burgard, Univ. Freiburg, Germany

Song Chong, KAIST, Korea
Brian Gerkey, SRI, USA
Norihiro Hagita, ATR, Japan
Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland
Mikael Johansson, Royal Inst. Tech., Sweden
Rolf Johansson, Lund Univ., Sweden
Smail Menani, PUV, Finland
Klaus Schilling, Univ. Würzburg, Germany
Dezhen Song, Texas A&M Univ., USA
Mani B. Srivastava, UCLA, USA
Andreas Willig, Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany
Alan FT Winfield, Univ. West England, UK

Yuping Zhao, Peking Univ., China

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