CALL FOR PAPERS

Med-Hoc-Net 2014
The 13th IFIP Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop

http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/medhocnet2014

June 2-4, 2014
Piran, Slovenia



OVERVIEW
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Wireless ad hoc networks have attracted considerable attention from the research
community in the last several years. Now that many of the fundamental topics and
challenges have been deeply investigated, the focus is partially shifting to new
issues, which include data-centric operations, autonomous organization, service
creation/support, continued operation under intermittent connectivity,
optimization, control, cross-layer design and application scenarios (road safety,
disaster recovery, smart cities, energy efficient buildings, sensors, actuators,
wearables, etc.). Moreover, novel and exciting challenges are introduced by
commercial systems adopting the ad hoc paradigm, from mesh, sensor and vehicular
networks, and by associated delay-tolerant and opportunistic scenarios.
Furthermore, today's market explosion of smart phones is creating new
opportunities for wireless ad hoc social networks, the study of which requires
the combination of opportunistic ad hoc networking aspects with the understanding
of social behavior and mobility patterns.

MED-HOC-NET 2014 focuses on all the ramifications of ad hoc networking research,
not only the classic topics of location management, security/privacy, topology
optimization/control schemes and resource allocation, but also paying attention
to novel emerging areas such as green networking, safety/surveillance, underwater
communications, and coexistence among heterogeneous devices.

The Workshop is endorsed by the IEEE Communication Society and its Technical
Committees for Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks, Information Infrastructure & Networking,
and Radio Communication, and by IFIP.


TOPICS
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Papers are solicited in a variety of topics related to ad hoc, wireless, sensor,
mesh, delay-tolerant, content-centric and opportunistic networks,
including but not limited to:

-Routing algorithms and protocols
-MAC protocols, scheduling, power control, and resource allocation
-Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks
-Middleware for ad hoc networks
-Application driven architectures and protocols
-Sensor network applications and protocols
-Vehicular networks
-Cognitive radio networks
-Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks
-Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes
-Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, etc.)
-Self organization and network reconfiguration
-Optimization models and algorithms
-Resource and service discovery
-Use of advanced antenna technologies (MIMO, beam forming, etc.)
-Security and privacy
-Delay tolerant networks
-Exploitation of social and mobility patterns for opportunistic networking
-Mobile social networks
-Security and privacy
-Participatory and urban sensing
-Underwater wireless networks
-Heterogeneous networks
-Novel performance measures
-Green networking
-Cooperative schemes
-Network localization
-Network secrecy
-Networking virtualization
-Services based, and enabled by Ad Hoc networks


IMPORTANT DATES
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Papers Due: March 3, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: April 7, 2014
Camera-Ready Version due: May 4, 2014
Conference Dates: June 2-4, 2014


PAPER SUBMISSION
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Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for
publication.Submissions are limited to 8 pages in length in Two-Column Format,
including references, figures and tables. Authors are requested to submit their
manuscripts electronically through the EDAS web site.


CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Fulvio Babich, University of Trieste, Italy
Eve Schooler, Intel Labs, USA


TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS
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Andreas Kassler - Karlstads Universitet, Sweden
Gustavo Marfia - University of Bologna, Italy


STEERING COMMITTEE
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Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia, Institute of Technology, USA
Khaldoun Al Agha, Paris-Sud University, France
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, Tunisia
Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA
Guy Pujolle, UPMC - Paris 6, France


PUBLICATION CHAIR
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Massimiliano Comisso - University of Trieste, Italy


PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Sungwon Yang - UCLA, USA


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR
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Roman Trobec - Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Özgür Baris Akan - Koc University, Turkey
Onur Altintas - Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan
Stefano Avallone - Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Amotz Bar-Noy - Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, USA
Jalal Ben-Othman - University Paris 13, France
Carlos Bernardos - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
André-Luc Beylot - IRIT Toulouse, France
Giuseppe Bianchi - University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Chris Blondia - University of Antwerp, Belgium
Steven Borbash - US Government, Department of Defense, Washington DC, USA
Azzedine Boukerche - University of Ottawa, Canada
Khaled Boussetta - University of Paris 13, France
Raffaele Bruno - CNR, Italy
Armir Bujari - University of Padua, Italy
Berk Canberk - Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Antonio Capone - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Ling-Jyh Chen - Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Luis Henrique M. K. Costa - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Francesca Cuomo - University of Rome Sapienza, Italy
Lorenzo Donatiello - University of Bologna, Italy
Christos Douligeris - University of Piraeus, Greece
Falko Dressler - University of Innsbruck, Austria
Andrzej Duda - Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Ece Gelal - AirTies, Turkey
Erol Gelenbe - Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Andrea Giorgetti - Univ. Bologna, Italy
Mesut Guenes - Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
Isabelle Guérin Lassous - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 – LIP, France
Zhen Kong - Qualcomm, Hong Kong
Houda Labiod - TELECOM ParisTech (ex: ENST), France
Latif Ladid - Internet Society, USA
Ilias Leontiadis - Telefonica Research, Spain
Pascal Lorenz - University of Haute Alsace, France
Maode Ma - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Abdelhamid Mammeri - University of Ottawa, Canada
Pietro Manzoni - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Raphael Massin - Thales, France
Tommaso Melodia - State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Pascale Minet - INRIA, France
Ani Nahapetian - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Gabi Nakibly - National EW Research & Simulation Center, Israel
Leandro Navarro - UPC, Spain
Axel Neumann - Pangea, Germany
Guevara Noubir - Northeastern University, USA
Claudio Palazzi - University of Padua, Italy
Andrea Passarella - CNR, Pisa, Italy
Christian Quadri - University of Milano, Italy
Marco Roccetti - University of Bologna, Italy
Catherine Rosenberg - University of Waterloo, Canada
Björn Scheuermann - Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Winston Seah - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Hwee Pink Tan - Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Anil Kumar Vullikanti - Virginia Tech, USA
Stefan Weber - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Adam Wolisz - Technical University of Berlin, Germany


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http://netlab.cs.ucla.edu/medhocnet2014/