CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
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MESH 2008, International Conference on Advances in Mesh Networks
August 25-31, 2008 - Cap Esterel, France
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/MESH08.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/CfPMESH08.html
Submission deadline: April 5, 2008
Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.
Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for specialized journals.
The wireless mesh networks came to rescue the challenging issues related for predicting the location of a user and choosing the position of access points in wireless distributed systems. Basically mesh networks guarantee the connectivity through a multihop wireless backbone formed by stationary routers. There is no differentiation between uplink and downlink, but performance depends on the routing protocols. There are several challenging issues for properly exploiting wireless mesh networks' features, such as fast-link quality variation, channel assignments, performance, QoS-routing, scalability, slow/high speed mobile users, service differentiation, and others.
MESH 2008 is an inaugural event addressing the most challenging aspects for designing and deploying mesh networks. Contributions concerning unpublished results, lessons learnt, work in progress, positions, and future research are expected to be submitted on the following topics (but not limited to):
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Architectures and algorithms
o Frameworks
o Wireless interference models
o Topology models
o Large-scale networks
o Real-time and non-real-time communications
o Channel assignment schemes
o Resource allocation
o Centralized and distributed scheduling
o Performance
o Static/mobile scenarios
o Access control
o Service differentiation
Protocols
o Protocol interference models
o Access and routing protocols
o Single-channel multihop / multi-channel routing
o Joint routing and scheduling
o Routing metrics
o Multichannel routing
o Quality of Services routing
o Multimedia-centric routing
o Fast-link quality metrics
o Bandwidth estimation
o Cross-layer multicast routing
Applications
o Multimedia services
o Home IPTV
o WiMax
o Broadband home networking communications
o Emergency/disaster
o Telemedicine and e-health
o Smart buildings
o Broadband Internet access
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