[Acpc-l] ACM MSWiM'2003 - Call for Participation

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            CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

             The Sixth ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and
                             Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

                                            September 19, 2003
                                            San Diego, CA, USA.
                                  http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2003/

                       Westin Horton Plaza Hotel in San Diego, California
                         In conjunction with ACM/IEEE MobiCom 2003
                                Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE


     8.10   Welcome

     8.20 - 9.20

          Keynote Speaker presentation:

                                         Prof. Ramesh R. Rao,
                                     University of California, San Diego
               "Effective Bandwidth Aggregation over Multiple Interfaces
                             for Real-Time and TCP Applications"

     9.20 - 10.30

    Session 1: Emerging Technologies: WLANs and WPANs

          "Markov-based Modeling of Wireless Local Area Networks"
              Syed Khayam and Hayder Radha
              Michigan State University, USA
          "On Flow Reservation and Admission Control for Distributed
              Scheduling Strategies in IEEE802.11 Wireless LAN"
              Ming Li, Balakrishnan Prabhakaran and Sathish Sathyamurthy
              University of Texas at Dallas, USA
          "On the Application of Traffic Engineering over Bluetooth Ad Hoc
Networks"
              Sachin Abhyankar, Rishi Toshniwal, Carlos Cordeiro and Dharma
Agrawal
              University of Cincinnati, USA

     10.30 - 11.00

          Coffee break

     11.00 - 12.30

     Session 2: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

          "Connectivity of Wireless Multihop Networks in a Shadow Fading
Environment"
              Christian Bettstetter and Christian Hartmann
              Technische Universitat Munchen, DE
          "Flooding Strategy for Target Discovery in Wireless Networks"
             Zhao Cheng and Wendi Heinselman
              University of Rochester, USA
          "Energy-Aware Data-Centric Routing in Microsensor Networks"
              Xiuzhen Cheng*, Azzedine Boukerche** and J. Linus**
              * George Washington University, USA
              ** University of North Texas, USA
          "Simulation of Large Ad Hoc Networks"
              Valery Naoumov and Thomas Gross
              ETH Zurich

     12.30 - 13.30

          Lunch break

     13.30 - 14.40

     Session 3: QoS Provisioning

          "Performance Comparisons of Downlink Handoff Mechanisms for the
            WCDMA System in Microcellular Environments"
              Li-Chun Wang, Ming-Chun Chiang, Chung-Ju Chang, Ching-Yu Liao
              National Chiao Tung University
          "Opportunistic Scheduling for Wireless Systems with Multiple
            Interfaces and Multiple Constraints"
              Sunil Kulkarni
              Purdue University, USA
          "Assessing the User-Perceived Quality of Packet Voice in
            Networks with Mobile Users"
              Cristina Hristea Seibert and Fouad Tobagi
              Stanford University, USA

     14.40 - 15.40

          Short Paper Session

     15.40 - 16.00

          Best Paper Awards and Coffee break

     16.00 - 17.50

    Session 4: Mobile Wireless Networks

          "A Comparison of Network and Application Layer Multicast for
                Mobile IPv6 Networks"
              Anargyros Garyfalos*, Kevin Almeroth**, Joe Finney*
              * Lancaster University
              ** University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
          "Randomized Location Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks"
              Texas A&M University, USA
          "SMM: Mathematical Framework of a Scalable Mobility Model"
              Dharmayashdev Rai Basgeet*, Pascal Dugenie**, Alistair Munro*,
              Dritan Kaleshi* and James Irvine***
              * University of Bristol
              ** Nexwave Solutions
              *** University of Strathclyde
          "Effect of Node Mobility on Highway Mobile Infostation Networks"
              Wing Ho Yuen*, Roy Yates* and Chi Wan Sung**
              * Rutgers University, USA
              ** City University of Hong Kong
          "Adaptive Range Control Using Directional Antennas in Mobile Ad
Hoc Networks"
              Mineo Takai, Junlan Zhou, Rajive Bagrodia
              University of California at Los Angeles, USA

     17.30

          Closing Remarks/Workshop conclusion