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The 11th ACM* International Symposium on Mobility Management

and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2013)

(in conjunction with the 16th ACM MSWiM)

November 3 - 8, 2013 Barcelona, Spain

http://adscom.it.uc3m.es/mobiwac

*ACM sponsorship pending upon approval

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The 11th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2013) will be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2013 (the 16th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) from November 3 to 8, 2013 at Barcelona, SPAIN.

The MOBIWAC series of events are intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols. To keep up with the technological developments, we also open up new areas such as mobile cloud computing starting from this year.

Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research. Submitted papers must neither have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal.

TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:

- Mobile Cloud Computing

- Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols

- Wireless/Mobile Web Access

- Wireless Internet and All-IP integration

- Next Generation Wireless systems

- Mobile Broadband Wireless Access

- Pervasive Communication and Computing

- Ubiquitous and mobile access

- Wireless Applications and testbeds

- Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff

- Multi-Channel Multi-Radio MAC / network layer management

- Channels and resources allocation algorithms

- Energy and power management algorithms

- Multi-technology switching using Software Defined Radios

- Context-aware services and applications

- Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures

- Interactive applications

- Mobile database management

- Wireless Multimedia Protocols

- Mobile and Wireless Entertainment

- Mobile Info-services

- Social mobile networks

- Social mobile applications

- QoS management

- Mobility Control and Management

- Localization and tracking

- Mobile/Vehicular environment access

- Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

- Security,Trust management and Privacy issues

- Fault Tolerance solutions

- Wireless Systems' Design

- Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems

- Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

General Chair

Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece

Program Chair

Ángel Cuevas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Technical Program Committee

Michele Albano, CISTER, Portugal

Jalel Ben-othman, University of Paris 13, France

Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada

Juan Carlos Cano, Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Stedano Chessa, Univesity of Pisa, Italy

Amit Dvir, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Domenico Giustiniano, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

J.J. García Luna Aceves, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

Chris G. Guy, University of Reading, UK

Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece

Rafael P. Laufer, Bell Labs, USA

Pierre Leone, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Vincenzo Mancuso, IMDEA Networks, Spain

Paulo Mendes, SITI, University Lusofona, Portugal

Antonio M. Ortiz, Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France

Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Grammati Pantziou, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece

Paul Patras, Hamilton Institute, Ireland

Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy

Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia

Pedro M. Ruiz, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

Paolo Santi, IIT-CNR, Italy

Alicia Triviño, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

Damia Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA

Manuel Urueña, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece

Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Zainab Zaidi, National ICT Australia, Ltd, Australia


Posters/Demo Chair

Paul Patras, Hamilton Institute, Ireland

Web Chair

Gerson Rodríguez de los Santos, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Publicity Chair

Antonio M. Ortiz, Institut Mines-Telelcom, Telecom SudParis, France

Publications Chair

TBD


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Paper Submission, Publication and Important Dates:

High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts
active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the Symposium. The symposium will Have a single track for regular papers and in addition, a separate interwoven track with short papers / posters. Paper length must be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Note that the regular paper size will be 8 pages, with the possibility to obtain up to 2 additional pages (total 10 pages) by paying a publication fee. Only PDF format is accepted. All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings published by ACM press.

- Paper registration due: June 3, 2013 (11:59PM EST)

- Submission Deadline: June 10, 2013 (11:59PM EST)

- Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2013

- Camera Ready version due: TBD


FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please see the conference website (http://adscom.it.uc3m.es/mobiwac/).