[Call for Participation] ACM MSWiM 2003

                       CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

     The Sixth ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and
          Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM'2003)

                In conjunction with ACM/IEEE MobiCom 2003

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

                        Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE


       Registration is available via the ACM MobiCom website
       http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2003/registration.html
             (Early registration approaching: August 28, 2003)

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                         TECHNICAL PROGRAM
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 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: QoS Provisioning

  -"Performance Comparisons of Power Allocation Mechanisms for Downlink 
    Handoff in the WCDMA System with 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)

 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 - 15.20 Session 3: 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"
    Sangeeta Bhattacharya (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 (UCLA, USA) 

 15.20 - 15.40 Best Paper Awards and Coffee break 

 15.40 - 16.40 Short Paper Session 

  -"Impact of Location Inaccuracy on Geographic Routing in Wireless Networks"
    Yongjin Kim, Jae-Joon Lee and Ahmed Helmy (University of Southern California, USA)
 
  -"Modeling the Sociological Aspects of Mobility in Ad Hoc Networks"
    Klaus Herrmann (Berlin University of Technology)

  -"Modeling Multicast Packet Losses in Wireless LANs"
    Chiping Tang and Philip McKinley (Michigan State University, USA)

  -"Parallel Adaptive Mobile Web Clipping"
    Alexander Vrenios (Distributed Systems Research Lab, Phoenix, USA)

  -"Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation for Multimedia Traffic with Rate Guarantee and 
    Fair Access" 
    Chih-Min Chao, Yu-Chee Tseng, Li-Chun Wang (National Chiao Tung University)

  -"Improving UMTS Throughput By Utilizing Ad Hoc Routing" 
    David Tacconi*, Cem U. Saraydar** and Sirin Tekinay** 
    (* Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
    (** New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) 

 16.40 - 17.50 Session 4: 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)
 
 17.50 Closing Remarks/Workshop conclusion 


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                             ORGANIZERS
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 General Chair
   Rassul Ayani
    Department of Microelectronics and Information Technology, 
    Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) 

 Program Co-Chairs
   Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini
    Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

   Hossam Hassanein
    Department of Computing and Information Science 
    Queen's University, Canada

 Publicity Co-Chairs
   Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University Florianopolis, Brazil
   Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
   Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy

 Program Committee
   Anand Balachandran, University of California at San Diego, USA
   Simonetta Balsamo, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy
   Luciano Bononi, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy 
   Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA 
   Lorenzo Casaccia, Qualcomm, San Diego, USA 
   Xiuzhen Cheng, George Washington University, USA
   Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 
   Marco Conti, IIT - CNR, Italy
   Teresa A. Dahlberg, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA 
   Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA 
   Juan Carlos De Martin, IEIIT-CNR, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
   Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria 
   Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy 
   Mohsen Guizani, Western Michigan University, USA 
   Fredrik Gunnarsson, Ericsson Research, Sweden
   Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada
   Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA
   Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
   Yi-Bing Lin, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 
   Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 
   Pavan Nugehalli, University of California at San Diego, USA
   Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK 
   Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Barddal University, Brazil
   Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA 
   Vikram Srinivasan, University of California at San Diego, USA 
   Dirk Staehle, University of Wurzburg, Germany 
   Mineo Takai, University of California at Los Angeles, USA 
   David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA 
   Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany
   Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, AU

 Finance Chair and Steering Committee Chair
   Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA

 Advisory Board Committee
   Azzedine Boukerche, University of North texas, USA
   William C.Y.Lee, AirTouch Inc.
   Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
   Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
   Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

 Registration Chair
   Tom Jacob, University of North texas, USA

 Webmaster and System Co-Chairs 
   Luciano Bononi, Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna, Italy
   Maurizio Munafo', Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

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