March 19, 2010
San Diego (California) USA
CARMEN 2010
Second International Workshop on
CARrier-grade wireless MEsh Networks
In conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2010
Important Dates
Jan 5, 2010:
Jan 12, 2010:
Paper Submission
Feb 5, 2010:
Feb 12, 2010:
Notification
Feb 25, 2010:
Mar 5, 2010:
Camera ready
March 19, 2010:
Workshop Dates
Menu:
Scope and Overview
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have been accepted as a new communication paradigm that, by relaxing some restrictions of ad-hoc networking (e.g. mobility, radio capabilities), enables the provision of high quality services. Still, the design of WMNs involves handling complex interactions between the variables of the solution space, e.g., cost, channel planning, routing. Only from a proper understanding of these interactions it will be possible to enclose use-case scenarios for mesh networking, this way assessing if WMNs are a feasible alternative to more-traditional deployments.
This workshop focuses on the current state of the art and ongoing research challenges on wireless mesh networks, with special attention to carrier-grade service provision. It will provide a forum to discuss current ongoing challenges, namely: the definition of "carrier-gradeness" in wireless environment and the ability to achieve it (in particular, as compared to current mobile architectures); the performance limits of mesh technology, assessing if the costs of mesh deployments (roll out, management) are compensated by the service models provided; the architectures for mesh networks, including homogeneous and heterogeneous designs; the security challenges and solutions for mesh networks. To sum up, the workshop aims at creating a think tank of practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to point out the directions for the success of wireless mesh technology
Topics at a Glance
The workshop solicits original and unpublished contributions on various aspects of wireless mesh networking, including (but not limited to):
- Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for wireless mesh networks
- Performance evaluation (analysis, simulation or experimental)
- Deployment of experimental testbeds
- Localization and mobility in wireless mesh networks
- Security, privacy, and trustworthiness
- Co-existence/Integration of wireless mesh networks with other networks
- Standardization efforts related to wireless mesh networks
- Wireless mesh networks configuration and management
- Wireless mesh networks measurements
- Service model and business case analysis
Submission and Publications
Only original papers, not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere, will be considered. All paper submissions will be handled electronically in EDAS via the CARMEN 2010 submission page. Authors should prepare a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their full paper. Papers must be no longer than 6 pages, in font size no smaller than 10 points, and compliant with the margin requirements. Please refer to the INFOCOM manuscript preparation page for details (Note that the page limit for workshop paper is 6 and not 9, as specified for INFOCOM submissions).
Accepted papers will be available after the conference on IEEExplore and will be included in IEEE INFOCOM 2011 proceedings.
Organizing Committee
General Chairs
- Arturo Azcorra, University of Carlos III, Spain
- Michele Zorzi, University of Padova, Italy
TPC Chairs
- Xavier Pérez Costa, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
- Matteo Cesana, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Technical program Committee
- Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Tech, US
- Stefano Avallone, University of Naples, Italy
- Michael Bahr, Siemens, Germany
- Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
- Kameswari Chebrolu, ITT-Bombay, India
- Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
- Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, US
- Mario Gerla, UCLA, US
- Omer Gurewitz, Ben Gurion University, Israel
- Matthias Hollik, Darmstadt University, Germany
- Alberto Lopez Toledo, Telefonica I+D, Spain
- Tommaso Melodia, SUNY Buffalo, US
- Konstantina Papagiannaki, Intel, US
- Pablo Serrano, University of Carlos III, Spain
- Frank Zdarsky, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Links
- IEEE INFOCOM Web
- IEEE INFOCOM Workshops
- CARMEN 2010 submission page
- INFOCOM manuscript preparation page
(Note that the page limit for the CARMEN 2010 Workshop is 6 pages, and not 9.)