------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE ***** JULY 16, 2011 (11:59pm EDT) *** EXTENDED *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS MeshTech 2011 Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Enabling Technologies and Standards for Wireless Mesh Networking http://www.ing.unipi.it/meshtech11 co-located with IEEE MASS 2011 sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE TC on Distributed Processing, IEEE TC on Simulation October 17, 2011 Valencia, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wireless mesh networks are considered as a key technology for next- generation wireless networking. They are experiencing a rapid proliferation in many of today’s environments, such as public city-wide broadband Wi-Fi, rural and private business networks, as well as neighbourhood communities. Wireless mesh networks have not only become a hot topic in the research and industry communities, but also triggered standardization bodies that have worked on specifying recognized protocols and architectures for interoperable WMNs, including both the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards committee (inside the IEEE 802.16/WiMAX, the IEEE 802.11s, and the IEEE 802.15.5 Working Groups) and the IETF in the context of wireless access and mobility support in Next Generation Internet (inside, e.g., the MIPSHOP, NETLMM and ROLL Working Groups). This proliferation of mesh technologies has furthermore led to the definition of new topologies that extended the classic base station centered deployments, revitalizing the interest from the research and industry communities with new paradigms such as direct link set-ups (from the IEEE 802.11 Task Group "z") or the peer-to-peer specification (from the Wi-Fi Alliance). Building on the success of the previous editions, MeshTech 2011 aims to bring together again practitioners and researchers from both academia and industry in order to discuss the recent advances and future evolution of next generation peer-to-peer and mobile mesh/multi-hop relay networking technologies and standards for Wireless Personal, Local, Metropolitan, Rural and Regional Area Networks. Within the scope of wireless mesh networks, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Routing protocols - Medium access control protocols - Quality of Service and fairness provisioning - Mesh networks configuration and management - Topology discovery, association and control - Mesh network measurement - Mobility management - Coexistence with existing wireless infrastructures - Security architectures, functions and protocols - Performance evaluation - Comparative study of competing solutions - Cross-layer design and optimization - Cognitive and frequency-agile radios - Fault tolerance, anomaly detection and error recovery schemes - Interworking of heterogeneous standard wireless mesh networks - Wireless mesh networks for TV white spaces - Wireless mesh networks for the Smart Grid - Vehicular wireless mesh networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted electronically to EDAS by June 26, 2011, 11:59pm EDT. You can find detailed submission instructions at http://www.ing.unipi.it/meshtech11/submission.shtml. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the main proceedings of IEEE MASS 2011 and published by IEEE. IMPORTANT DATES Manuscripts Due: July 16, 2011. *** EXTENDED *** Acceptance Notification: August 10, 2011. Camera-ready Submission: August 26, 2011. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Guido R. Hiertz, Riedel Communications, Germany. Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy. TPC CHAIR Pablo Serrano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (To Be Completed). Alfred Arnold, Lancom Systems, Germany. Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy. Leonardo Badia, Universita' degli Studi di Padova, Italy. Michael Bahr, Siemens AG, Germany. Jaume Barcelo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Boris Bellalta, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy. Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland. Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR, Italy. Javier Cardona, Cozy Bit, USA. Joseph Camp, Southern Methodist University, USA. Dave Cavalcanti, Philips Research, USA. Claudio Cicconetti, Intecs S.p.A., Italy. David Chieng, MIMOS, Malaysia. Karoly Farkas, University of West Hungary, Hungary. Mesut Gunes, FU Berlin, Germany. Dan Harkins, Aruba Networks, USA. Matthias Hollick, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany. Kyeong Soo Kim, Swansea University, UK. Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National University, South Korea. Johannes Lessmann, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany. Azman Osman Lim, JAIST, Japan. Alberto Lopez Toledo, Telefonica Research, Spain. Vincenzo Mancuso, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain. Stefan Mangold, Disney Research, Switzerland. Sebastian Max, RWTH Aachen, Germany. Daniele Miorandi, Create-Net, Italy. Josep Mangues-Bafalluy, CTTC, Spain. Santosh Pandey, Cisco Systems, USA. Paul Patras, Hamilton Institute, Ireland. René Purnadi, RIM, USA. Holger Rosier, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Alexander Safonov, Russian Academy of Science, Russia. Vasilios Siris, University of Crete/FORTH-ICS, Greece. Spiro Trikaliotis, Institut für Automation und Kommunikation, Germany. Christian Wietfeld, University of Dortmund, Germany. Chun Yeow Yeoh, TM Reseach & Development, Malaysia.