CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------ MED-HOC-NET 2012 11th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 19 - 22 June 2012 http://medhocnet2012.cs.ucy.ac.cy Wireless ad hoc networks have attracted the attention of the research community in the last several years, mostly because of the growing interest in a connected world, where people are virtually omnipresent. Next generation wireless networks, heterogeneous access technologies, ad-hoc and sensor networks, and new Internet technologies are part of this pervasive environment. MED-HOC-NET 2012, as its previous 10 predecessors focuses on communication networking research, especially on new issues in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, which include Application Scenarios, Data-centric Operation, Autonomous Organization, Optimization and Control, Operation under Intermittent Connectivity, and Service Creation and Support. The scope of the workshop also includes new and exciting challenges in wireless mesh networks, sensor networks, vehicular networks, delay tolerant and opportunistic networks, and the opportunities provided or stemming from the social networks paradigm. As a major annual international workshop, the 11th MED-HOC-NET aims to serve as a platform for researchers and visionaries from the academia, the research laboratories, and the industry to present their latest work. Following recent successful conferences in Sicily (2006), Corfu (2007), Palma de Mallorca (2008), Haifa (2009), Juan-les-pins (2010), and Favignana Island (2011), Med-Hoc-Net 2012 will take place in Ayia Napa (CYPRUS). Workshop Topics --------------- The papers solicited cover a variety of topics related to ad hoc, wireless, sensor, mesh, delay tolerant, and opportunistic networks, including but not limited to: * Routing algorithms and protocols * MAC protocols, scheduling, power control, and resource allocation * Transport layer protocols for multi-hop networks * Middleware for ad hoc networks * Application driven architectures and protocols * Sensor network applications and protocols * Vehicular networks * Cognitive radio networks * Integration of ad hoc networks with wireless access networks * Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes * Technology related issues (IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, ZigBee, IEEE 802.16, etc.) * Self-organization and network (re)configuration * Optimization models and algorithms * Resource and service discovery * Energy-efficient networking * Exploitation of social and mobility patterns for opportunistic networking * Mobile social networks * Security and privacy * Positioning and localization * Participatory and urban sensing * Underwater wireless networks * Green networking Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will appear in IEEExplore. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Conference date and place: Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 19-22 June 2012 Paper submission deadline: March 5, 2012 Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2012 Camera ready version: May 1, 2012 Authors are invited to submit full papers written in English, with a maximum of eight (8) printed pages, including figures, tables& references in IEEE double-column format. Submissions must present original work that has not been previously published, and is not under review elsewhere. All articles will be reviewed for scientific quality by the Technical Program Committee and external reviewers. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, on-line via the EDAS system ( http://edas.info/N11539). The Executive Committee of Med-Hoc-Net 2012 includes: ----------------------------------------------------- General Chairs: --------------- Prof. Andreas Pitsillides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Prof. Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus, Greece Steering Committee: ------------------- Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA Khaldoun Al Agha, Universit? Paris-Sud XI, France Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, Tunisia Giovanni Pau, UCLA, USA Guy Pujolle, UPMC - Paris 6 Technical Program Chairs: ------------------------- Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands Jaudelice Cavalcante de Oliveira, Drexel University, USA * Organising Committee Chair: George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Finance and Sponsorship Chair: George Samaras, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Registration chair: Dimosthenis Georgiades, University of Nicosia, Cyprus * Publication Chairs: Chrysostomos Chrysostomou, Frederic University, Cyprus Josephina Antoniou, Technical University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Publicity Chairs: Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn Jaime Lloret Mauri, UP Valencia, Spain * Tutorials Chair: Tomasso Melodia, SUNY, USA * WebMaster: Dimosthenis Georgiades, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Christiana Ioannou, University of Cyprus Technical Program Committee Members: ------------------------------------ Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Ozgur B. Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp - IBBT, Belgium Azzedine Boukerche, University of Waterloo, Canada Khaled Boussetta, University of Paris 13, France Periklis Chadjimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Claude Chaudet, Telecom ParisTech, France Reuven Cohen, Technion, Israel Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Francesca Cuomo, La Sapienza, Universit? di Roma, Italy Falko Dressler, University of Erlangen, Germany Eylem Ekici, Ohio State University, USA Thierry Ernst, INRIA, France Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London, UK Isabelle Guerin-Lassous, Universit? de Lyon ? LIP, France Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, NY, USA Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University, USA Andreas Kassler, Karlstad University, Sweden Houda Labiod, Telecom ParisTech, France Jaime Lloret Mauri, UP Valencia, Spain Pietro Manzoni, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Constantinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Janice McNair, University of Florida, USA Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University, USA George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Niovi-Fotini Pavlidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo, Canada Susana Sargento, University of Aveiro, Portugal David Simplot-Ryl, Univ. of Lille, Centre de recherch? INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France Vasilios Siris. Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Otto Spaniol, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Yutaka Takahashi, Kyoto University, Japan Dimitrios D. Vergados, University of Piraeus, Greece Mehmet Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Adam Wolisz, Technische Universit?t Berlin, Germany Michele Zorzi, Universit? degli Studi di Padova, Italy Moshe Zukerman, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong