[CFP] IEEE MASS 2008: 5-th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE MASS 2008
Fifth IEEE International Conference on
Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems

September 29 - October 2, 2008
Hilton Atlanta
Atlanta, GA, USA

http://www.cse.psu.edu/IEEEMASS08/

Sponsors: IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Technical Committee on
Distributed Processing, IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation, and IEEE
Technical Committee on Computer Communications

Wireless ad-hoc communication has applications in a variety of environments,
such as conferences, hospitals, battlefields and disaster-recovery/rescue
operations, and is also being actively investigated as an alternative
paradigm for Internet connectivity in both urban and rural areas. Wireless
sensor and actuator networks are also being deployed for enhancing
industrial control processes and supply-chains, and for various forms of
environmental monitoring.
The IEEE MASS 2008 conference is the fifth edition of MASS and aims at
addressing advances in research on multi-hop ad-hoc and sensor networks,
covering topics ranging from technology issues to applications and test-bed
development.

IEEE MASS 2008 solicits original, unpublished contributions in all aspects
of
(mobile) ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks (WSN), systems and
applications. Submitted articles must not be concurrently considered
elsewhere for publication. Extended versions of selected papers will be
considered for fast track publication in the Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Journal (www.elsevier.come/locate/pmc).

Scope: Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Physical layer impact on higher layers in ad-hoc networks and WSNs
- Directional / smart antennas
- Multi-channel, multi-radio and MIMO technologies
- MAC protocols (802.11, 802.15.4, UWB)
- Wireless mesh networks and cognitive networks
- P2P/overlay/content distribution architectures for wireless ad hoc
networks
- Delay tolerant networks and opportunistic networking
- Vehicular networks and protocols
- Mobile/robotic sensor networks
- Power-aware architectures, algorithms and protocols design
- Clustering, topology control, coverage and connectivity issues
- Routing protocols (unicast, multicast, broadcast, geocast)
- Data transport, management and information scheduling
- Data gathering, fusion, and dissemination in WSNs
- Localization, synchronization and cooperative sensing in WSNs
- Sensor networks and pervasive infrastructures
- Capacity planning and admission control in ad-hoc networks
- Handoff / mobility management and seamless internetworking
- Resource management and wireless QoS Provisioning
- Cross layer design and optimization
- Incentive-based and game-theoretic approaches in ad-hoc networks
- Reliability, resiliency and fault tolerance techniques
- Security, privacy, and trust issues
- Management and monitoring of ad-hoc and sensor networks
- Operating systems and middleware support
- Novel applications and architectures for WSNs
- Modeling, analysis and performance evaluation
- Measurements and experience from experimental systems and test-beds

Submission Guidelines:

All submissions must be full papers in PDF format and uploaded on EDAS.
Direct link for paper submission (abstracts due within March 14, 2008):

http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6118&
They must not exceed 10 single-spaced, double-column pages using at least
11 pt size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages in IEEE style format.
Detailed formatting and submission instructions will be available on the
conference website.

WORKSHOP Proposals:
Workshop proposals are solicited on cutting-edge topics that complement or
supplement the main theme of IEEE MASS 2008. Please contact the Workshop
Co-chairs with proposals or for any questions.
The submission deadline is Feb 15.

DEMO Proposals:
Proposals are solicited for technical demonstrations of experimental ad-hoc
and sensor networking systems. Visit the conference website for instructions
on submitting demo proposals or contact the Demo Chair.

PAPER Submission Deadlines:
Abstracts Due: March 14, 2008
Manuscripts Due: March 21, 2008
Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2008
Camera-ready Submission: July 18, 2008

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

GENERAL Chair
Tom La Porta, Pennsylvania State University, USA (tlp at cse.psuedu)

PROGRAM Chair
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA (das at uta.edu)

TPC Vice Chairs
Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy (bononi at cs.unibo.it)
Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center, USA (archan at us.ibm.com)
Chunming Qiao, University of Buffalo, USA (qiao at cse.buffalo.edu)

WORKSHOP Co-Chairs
Yonghe Liu, University of Texas at Arlington, USA (yonghe at cse.uta.edu)
Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA (szhu at cse.psu.edu)

FINANCE & REGISTRATION Chair:
Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, USA

PUBLICATION Chair
Dajin Wang, Montclair State University, USA

PUBLICITY Co-Chairs
Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea (schoi at snu.ac.kr)
Murat Demirbas, University of Buffalo, USA (demirbas at cse.buffalo.edu)
Pedro Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain (pedrom at dif.um.es)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Chair
George Riley, Georgia Tech, USA (riley at ece.gatech.edu)

WEB Chair
Sharanya Eswaran, Pennsylvania State Univ, USA (eswaran at cse.psu.edu)

STEERING COMMITTEE Co-chairs
Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati, USA
Jie Wu (TCDP), Florida Atlantic University & NSF, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
Prathima Agrawal, Auburn University, USA
Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Kevin Almeroth, University of California at Santa Barbara
Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy
Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
Elizabeth Belding, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Brahim Bensaou, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Amiya Bhattacharya, New Mexico State University, USA
Douglas Blough, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Joel Branch, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Raffaele Bruno, IIT.CNR, Pisa, Italy
Levente Buttyan, CrySys lab, Budapest Univ. of tech. and econ., Hungary
Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA
Guihai Chen, Nanjing University, China
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Yanghee Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia
Amitabha Das, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Swades De, Indian Institute of Technology, India
Murat Demirbas, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany
Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University,USA
Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary
Laura Feeney, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Ratan Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India
Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland
Mesut Gunes, Computer Science, Freie Univ Berlin, Germany
Zygmunt Haas, Cornell University, USA
Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Paul Havinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA
Sanjay Jha, University of New South Wales, Australia
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Vana Kalogeraki, University of California at Riverside, USA Koushik Kar,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
Sneha Kasera, University of Utah, USA
Young-Bae Ko, Ajou University, Korea
Sastry Kompella, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Farinaz Koushanfar, Rice University, USA
Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA
Sudha Krishnamurthy, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany
Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea
Tom La Porta, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Sung-Ju Lee, HP Labs, USA
Qilian Liang, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Weifa Liang, Australian National University, Australia
Lavy Libman, NICTA, Sydney, Australia
Yonghe Liu, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Yunhao Liu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Cecilia Mascolo, University College London, UK
Martin Mauve, Heinrich Heine University, Düorf, Germany
Ciaran Mc Goldrick, Trinity College at Dublin, Ireland
Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, mUSA Jelena Misic,
University of Manitoba, Canada Archan Misra, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Mehul Motani, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Tech. of Lille, France
Peng Ning, North Carolina State University, USA
Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy
Joséarente de Oliveira, ITA, Brazil
Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Dirk Pesch, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
Chiara Petrioli, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Tien Pham, Army Research Laboratory, USA
Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy
Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, The State Univ. of New Jersey, USA
Ravi Prakash, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Chunming Qiao, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Lili Qiu, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Milena Radenkovic, University of Nottingham, UK
Fengyuan Ren, Tsinghua University, China
Pedro Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain
Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
Yi Shi, Virginia Tech, USA
Rajeev Shorey, General Motors Research, India
David Simplot-Ryl, INRIA & University of Lille, France
Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Krishna Sivalingam, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA
Harry Skianis, National Centre for Scientific Res. 'Demokritos', Greece
Cormac Sreenan, University College of Cork, Ireland
Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs Research, India
Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA
Vic Thomas, Honeywell, USA
Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Wade Trappe, Rutgers University, The State Univ. of New Jersey, USA
Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Roberto Verdone, University of Bologna, Italy
Mehmet Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana
Wendong Xiao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Wensheng Zhang, Iowa State University, USA
Sheng Zhong, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Yanmin Zhu, Imperial College of London, UK
Michele Zorzi, Universitàegli Studi di Padova, Italy

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