IEEE International Cross-Layer Designs and Protocols Symposium

 

IEEE IWCMC 2006


Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada  

July 3-6, 2006

Technical Sponsored by:

 

IEEE Computer Communications Technical Committee

IEEE Radio Communications Committee

IEEE Personal Communications Technical Committee

IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee

 

  [IWCMC 2006] [PAPER SUBMISSIONS]

 

General Information

 

The IEEE International Cross-Layer Designs and Protocols Symposium will be held in conjunction with the 2006 IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2006)  in the Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada. The IEEE International Cross-Layer Designs and Protocols Symposium within IEEE IWCMC 2006 is soliciting original and high-quality papers describing state-of-the art research and development in the areas of cross-layer designs and protocols over mobile wireless networks. Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for oral presentations at the IEEE International Cross-Layer Designs and Protocols Symposium in IWCMC 2006 and publications in the IEEE IWCMC 2006 Conference Proceedings.

 

Symposium Background

 

The explosive increasing in wireless packet-data applications, such as wireless web browsing, real-time mobile multimedia streaming, and interactive applications motivates the rapid development of the next-generation mobile wireless networks. The associated communication channels and traffic patterns in mobile wireless networks are more unpredictable than the traditional wire-line networks. On the other hand, the future multimedia applications impose stringent and diverse Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, which cannot be satisfactorily addressed through the traditional layering network-protocol architecture. Correspondingly, a cross-layer design paradigm would be needed to achieve transmission protocol stack performance while meeting these new challenges in QoS requirements. The cross-layer designs and protocols tend to be very essential approaches for the mobile wireless and ad hoc networks where unpredictable variables such as node mobility, node density, network dimensions make the diverse and stringent wireless QoS requirements even harder to satisfy. Cross-layer designs and protocols are the emerging research areas where some early results have recently been reported in the literatures, but the upcoming new applications and more stringent/diverse wireless QoS requirements open even more new opportunities for many interesting and comprehensive research topics targeting at concepts, methodologies, and techniques to support the future advanced mobile wireless applications. Clearly, the developments of the new schemes, mechanisms, and systems associated with the cross-layer designs and protocols will have a significant impact on the next generation of mobile wireless communications and networks.

 

Scope of Contributions

 

The focuses of the papers to be published in the IEEE International Cross-Layer Designs and Protocols Symposium will concentrate on the state-of-the-art research in various aspects of cross-layer designs and protocols for the next-generation mobile wireless communications networks. We solicit the original papers covering various topics of interest that include, but not limited to the following areas:

  

  • Methodologies for cross-layer protocol design in mobile wireless networks
  • Cross-layer strategies for wireless multimedia communications
  • Cross-layer error and delay control
  • Cross-Layer Optimization for Energy, Network Lifetime, and Capacity
  • Communication Networks and Layered Network Architectures
  • Complexity and Scalability Issues in Cross-Layer Design
  • Physical Layer Information for Medium Access Control (MAC), Radio Link Control (RLC)
  • Signaling for Cross-Layer Protocol Interaction
  • Quality of Service (QoS) and Radio Resource Management in Layered Networks
  • Channel Access Algorithms for Cross-Layered Wireless Communication Networks
  • Routing, mobility management and congestion control
  • Performance Optimization for Cross-Layer Design of Wireless Network
  • Cross-Layer Design of MAC, RLC, and Routing Protocols in Wireless Networks
  • Software Defined Radio and Dynamic Wireless Networks
  • Call Admission Control for Ad Hoc Networks
  • Architectures issues for cross-layer protocol design in mobile wireless networks
  • Adaptation for Energy Minimization in Cross-Layer Wireless Networks
  • Cross-Layer Design issues for Quality of Service provisioning in Wireless Networks
  • Layer Adaptation Based on Cross-Layer Notifications
  • Signal Processing for Cross-Layer Design
  • Cross-Layer Strategies and end-to-end QoS
  • Special Projects in Cross-Layer Design
  • Cross-Layer Strategies in Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks
  • Exploiting physical layer information for medium access control (MAC)/ radio link control (RLC) protocol design
  • Interactions among PHY/MAC/RLC and transport layer protocol (e.g., TCP/UDP)
  • Interactions between routing/mobility management and congestion control
  • Cross-layer design of MAC, RLC, and routing protocols in wireless ad hoc networks
  • Cross-layer adaptation for energy minimization in wireless networks 
  • Application layer adaptation based on cross-layer notifications
  • Cross-layer strategies and end-to-end quality of service
  • Cross-layer strategies in wireless sensor and actuator networks
  • Design, implementation and test-bed/experimental results
  • Overview/survey of the special undergoing/planned projects
  • Standardization issues and status reports from various standards organizations

 

Symposium Chair

 

Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA, xizhang@ece.tamu.edu

 

Symposium Co-Chairs

 

Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada, wzhuang@ece.uwaterloo.ca

Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea, schoi@snu.ac.kr

 

 

 Technical Program Committee

 

Imad Aad                                                 DoCoMo Labs Europe, Germany

Eitan Altman                                            INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, FRANCE

Alagan Anpalagan                                  Ryerson University, Canada

Jun Cai                                                     University of Waterloo, Canada

Lin Cai                                                      University of Victoria, Canada

Jean-Francois Chamberland                 Texas A&M University, USA

Yu Cheng                                                 University of Toronto, Canada

Tung Chong Wong                                  Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

Chun-Ting Chou                                      Philips Research USA, USA

Christos Douligeris                                 University of Piraeus, Greece

Zonghua Gu                                             Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Ian Henning                                              University of Essex, United Kingdom

Hai Jiang                                                  University of Waterloo, Canada

Changhee Joo                                         Purdue University, USA

Byung-Jae Kwak                                     Elec.& Telecom. Research Institute, Korea

Tae-Jin Lee                                             Sungkyunkwan University, KOREA

Jiandong Li                                             Xidian University, China

Pascal Lorenz                                         University of Haute Alsace, FRANCE

Mike MacGregor                                     University of Alberta, Canada

Brian L. Mark                                           George Mason University, USA

Vojislav Misic                                          Unversity of Manitoba, Canada

Jelena Misic                                            University of Manitoba, Canada

Nidal Nasser                                            University of Guelph, Canada

Daji Qiao                                                  Iowa State University, USA

Kai Shi                                                     Olympus Communications Technology of America, USA

Nah-Oak Song                                        Elec. & Telecom. Research Institute, Korea

Alex Sprintson                                         Texas A&M Universtiy, USA

Ilenia Tinnirello                                         University of Palermo, Italy

Yu-Chee Tseng                                       National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan

Dimitrios Vergados                                University of the Aegean, Greece

Guoliang Xue                                           Arizona State University, USA

Qian Zhang                                              Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Xiaolan Zhang                                         IBM T.J Watson Research Center, USA

Yan ZHANG                                             Wireless Communications Lab., NICT, Singapore

Hengming Zou                                         Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

 

 

Time Lines

 

Paper Submission Deadline: Jan 30, 2006

Paper Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2006

Camera-ready Paper Submissions: May 30, 2006

Symposium Date: July 3-6 2006