Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:50:49 +0100 From: Gerd Hesina Organization: Vienna University of Technology To: helwig@cg.tuwien.ac.at Subject: [Fwd: IEEE- HiPC 2000] Call for Papers for Special Session on 7th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'2000) PERFORMANCE MODELING of MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS Bangalore, India December 17-20, 2000 Co-sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society TCPP, ACM SIGARCH, Indian Institute of Science, (Bangalore) SESSION ORGANIZER Prof. Azzedine Boukerche Dept. of Computer Sciences Univ. of North Texas Denton, TX 76203 Phone: 940-565-4869 Fax : 940-565-2767 URL: www.cs.unt.edu/~boukerch boukerche@cs.unt.edu OBJECTIVES Mobile cellular communication systems and wireless networking technologies are growing at an ever-faster rate, and this is likely to continue in the foreseable future. Wireless technology is nowadays being used to link portable computer equipments to corporate distributed computing and other sources of necessary information. Wide-area cellular systems and wireless LANs promise to make integrated networks a reality and provide fully distributed and ubiquitous mobile communications, thus bringing an end to the tyranny of geography. We propose to organize a high quality, special session on Mobile and wireless networks for the HiPC'2000 conference, (For details, see http://www.hipc.org). The objective of this session is to bring together technologists and researchers of international reputation to have a forum for discussions and presentations of their state-of-the-art work in all aspects of wireless communications and mobile computing, with particular emphasis on performance modeling and analysis of mobile communications capability. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts for a special session on Mobile Computing. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): o Performance modeling of wireless networks (PCS, Ad hoc, Satellite Networks) o Mobility, data, resource management, and scheduling issues in wireless and mobile networks Mobile applications and tools for distributed databases o wireless Internet and WWW, simulation of wireless networks Mobile Agents o Quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning o Wireless multimedia systems o Routing and location independent information access o Parallel Simulation of large scale wireless systems Security, scalability and reliability for mobile/wireless systems o Architectures of mobile/wireless networks and systems o Traffic integration for mobile applications o Design and analysis of algorithms for mobile environments o Influence of lower layers on the design and performance of higher layers o Scalable Servers Wireless Mobile Computing SUBMISSION GUIDELINES To submit an original research paper, send your complete manuscript (not to exceed 15 double-spaced pages of text using 12 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages) to the Program Chair. References, figures, tables, etc. may be included in addition to the fifteen pages of text. Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be sent to hipc2000@ac.upc.es. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable postscript file containing the following header information in ASCII form: Title, Author name(s), Abstract, Postal address, E-mail address, and Telephone and Fax numbers. PLEASE ALSO INDICATE THAT THIS SUBMISSION IS FOR THE SPECIAL SESSION MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS. The header (in ASCII) should be followed by the postscript version of the complete manuscript (including title, author's name, affiliation, and abstract). Authors should submit a correct PostScript (level 2) file of their paper to be considered and make sure that the PostScript file will print on a PostScript printer that uses 8.5 x 11 inch size (US letter size) paper. All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by April 19, 2000. Submissions received after the due date or exceeding the length limit may not be considered. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by June 30, 2000. Camera-ready papers are due August 15, 2000. Proceedings will be available at the Conference. IMPORTANT DATES Hard copy submissions are also permitted and, like electronic submissions, must be received by April 19, 2000. Send six copies of the manuscript to: HiPC'2000 PROGRAM CHAIR April 19, 2000 : Conference Paper Due Prof. Mateo Valero June 30 , 2000 : Notification of Dept. de Arquitectura de Acceptance/Rejection Computadores August 15, 2000: Camera-Ready Paper Due Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya c/ Jordi Girona 1-3, Modulo D6 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN mateo@ac.upc.es