CALL FOR PAPERS

Minitrack on

Quality of Service Issues in Mobile and Wireless Networks


Part of the SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY TRACK


37-th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

HICSS-37

Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island of Hawaii -- January 5 - 8, 2004




 
SCOPE:

       As mobile and wireless networks are being called upon to support real-time interactive multimedia traffic, such as video tele-conferencing, these networks must be able to provide their users with Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees. Although the QoS provisioning problem arises in wireline networks as well, mobility of hosts, scarcity of bandwidth, and channel fading make QoS provisioning a challenging task in mobile and wireless networks. Recently it has been noticed that multimedia applications can tolerate and gracefully adapt to transient fluctuations in the QoS that they receive from the network. The management of such adaptive multimedia applications is becoming a new research area in wireless networks. As it turns out, the additional flexibility afforded by the ability of multimedia applications to tolerate and adapt to transient changes in the QoS parameters can be exploited by protocol designers to significantly improve the overall performance of wireless systems. This workshop will focus on fundamental challenges and issues in the area of QoS provisioning in mobile and wireless networks. Our goal is to bring together leading researchers in this hot field of research in order to identify the fundamental challenges and future prospects of this new and exciting area of research. Topics include but are not limited to:
 

MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS:


 
Prof. Stephan Olariu  
Dept. of Computer Science 
Old Dominion University 
Norfolk, VA 23529-0162, USA 
olariu@cs.odu.edu 		 Dr. Petia Todorova 
Fraunhofer-FOKUS 
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 
Berlin, Germany 
todorova@fokus.fraunhofer.de

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

March 31, 2004  Abstract submission for guidance and indication of appropriate content
June 1, 2004  Full papers submitted to Minitrack Chairs
August 31, 2004  Notice of acceptance or rejections of papers sent to Authors
October 1, 2004   Accepted manuscripts submitted electronically to the publisher of the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to attend the conference by this date. Registration cancellations after this date may result in the paper being pulled from the Proceedings prior to printing. See conference web site for registration fee refund policy.





NOTE: Because HICSS is a nonprofit activity funded entirely by registration fees, all participants and speakers are expected to have their university/organization bear the costs of their expenses and registration. HICSS is not able to subsidize registrations or offer reduced fees.

 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

1. Contact one of the Minitrack Co-Chairs in advance for specific submission instructions. Otherwise, submit six (6) copies of the full paper, consisting of 22-26 double-spaced pages, including diagrams, directly to one of the Minitrack Co-Chairs. (NOTE: The final paper will be 10 pages, double-column, single-spaced.)

 

2. Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.

 

3. Each paper must have a title page to include title of the paper, full name of all authors, and complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es).

For additional information

Please contact: Prof. Stephan Olariu   (olariu@cs.odu.edu)
http://www.cs.odu.edu/~olariu