Wireless Local Area Networks and Personal Area Networks Symposium (part of IEEE IWCMC 2008) Maris Conference Centers Chania Crete Island, Greece August 6-8, 2008

Technical Sponsor: IEEE Communication Society (Approved) ACM (Pending)

Scope and Topics of Interest

Original papers are invited on emerging architectures and technologies in the design of wireless local area networks (WLANs) and wireless personal area networks (WPANs) with emphasis on the use of such networks in diverse areas of applications such as supporting ubiquitous mobile Internet access, and the design of ad-hoc networks, and sensor networks. The symposium solicits high quality and previously unpublished work in the field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Wireless Mesh Networks Medium access techniques and protocols for WLANs/WPANs Emerging standards and testbeds for WLANs/WPANs WLANs/WPANs protocols for smart antennas Energy efficiency in protocol and systems design Resource assignment and sharing in WLANs/WPANs Self configuration in WLANs/WPANs Provisioning quality of service in WLANs/WPANs Multimedia networking architectures and protocols for WLANs/WPANs Integration and interoperability of WLANs/WPANs and 3G (and beyond) networks Interoperability issues between wireless standards/protocols and the Internet User mobility and workload modeling Security issues in WLANs/WPANs OFDM Technology for Wireless LANs/PANs WLAN/WPAN based applications/Services

Paper Submission and Important Dates

Note that IWCMC papers are typically limited to six pages, including text, figures and references, and must be written in English and must be in standard ACM double-column format (unless mentioned otherwise on the conference's main WEB page). The font size must be at least 10 points. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF format. Information on best paper awards and other details will be made available on the IWCMC 2008 main page. All submitted papers would be judged based on their quality through a peer-reviewing process. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings of IWCMC'08. Further instructions on paper submission and formatting are available on the Conference Main Webpage. Paper submission website: EDAS System. Manuscript Submission: March 15, 2008 (Extended) Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2008 Camera-Ready Papers Due: June 8, 2008 Registration Deadline: June 8, 2008

Organizing Committee

Dr. Cheng Li Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University, St. John's, NL Canada, A1B 3X5 E-mail: licheng AT engr DOT mun DOT ca Dr. Tarik Taleb Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai Japan E-mail: taleb AT aiet DOT ecei DOT tohoku DOT ac DOT jp

Standing Committee

Ehab S. Elmallah Department of Computing Science University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6G 2E8 E-mail: ehab AT cs DOT ualberta DOT ca Yang Xiao Department of Computer Science University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0290 USA E-mail: yangxiao AT ieee DOT org

Technical Program Committee (TPC) (in Alphabetic Order)

Nayef Alsindi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, U.S.A. Tarik Aouam, AlAkawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco Elarbi Badidi, UAE University, UAE Jalel Ben-othman, Universit de Versailles, France Brahim Bensaou, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Abdelmalek Benzekri, Université Paul Sabatier Igor Bisio, University of Genoa, Italy Rajendra Boppana, Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, USA Nizar Bouabdallah, INRIA, France Ali Boudani, Thomson Multimedia, Mohammed Boulmalf, AlAkhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco Azzedine Boukerche, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada Youssef Charfi, Osaka University, Japan Yuanzhu (Peter) Chen, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Soumaya Cherkaoui, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Hanane Fathi, Research Center for Information Security, AIST, Japan Haris Gacanin, Tohoku University, Japan Xiaoying Gan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Rosario Garroppo, University of Pisa, Italy Thierry Gayraud, LAAS-CNRS, France Yacine Ghamri Doudane, LRSM, Ensiie, France Giovanni Giambene, University of Siena, Italy Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Universitée Versailles, France Jiang Hai, University of Alberta, Canada Walaa Hamouda, Concordia University, Canada Hamid Harroud, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Mohammad Heidari, Worcester Polytechnic Institute - WPI, USA Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Canada Ali Humos, Jackson State University Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia Raja Jurdak , University College Dublin, Ireland Ahmed Kamal, Iowa State University, USA Shuzo Kato, NICT, Japan Takehiro Kawata, NTT Pansoo Kim, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Stepan Kucera, Kyoto University, Japan Abderrahmane Lakas, UAEU Kaddar Lamia, University of Versailles Saint Quentin, France Khaled B. Letaief, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Mario Marchese, DIST- University of Genoa, Italy Ahmed Meddahi, GET/Telecom Lille 1 Weixiao Meng, Communications Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Madjid Merabti, Liverpool John Moores University Jelena Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada Yutaka Miyake, KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan Seshadri Mohan, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Hussein Mouftah, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Swissland Amitava Mukherjee, IBM India Pvt Ltd, Calcutta, India Kumudu Munasinghe, University of Sydney, Australia John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Sean Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Farid Nait-Abdesselam, University of Sciences and Tenologies of Lille, France Hung Nguyen, The Aerospace Corporation Abdelhamid Nafaa, University College Dublin, Ireland Dusit Niyato, University of Manitoba, Canada Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA Ertan Öztürk, Zonguldak Karaelmas University Sergio Palazzo, University of Catania, Italy Evangelos Papapetrou, University of Ioannina, Greece Djamel Sadok, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Ehssan Sakhaee, Osaka University Abdallah Shami, The University of Western Ontario Ahmed Shawish, Tohoku University, Japan Farag Sallabi, UAE University Hiroshi Tsunoda, Tohoku University, Japan Zartash Uzmi, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan Tianqi Wang, University of Rochester, USA Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Fei Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada Liang Zhang, Softbank Mobile Corp., Japan Lian Zhao, University of Ryerson, Canada More TPC members are yet to be added!