About WiMesh 2009

Fourth IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WiMesh)

Rome
Italy
More about the venue: http://www.ieee-secon.org/venue.html

June 22, 2009

Wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest as a low-cost networking platform to support ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, or a larger, community or metro-scale networking. Many universities, as well as industrial labs have on-going research projects on various aspects of mesh networking, including architectures, protocols, services and applications. Several startups are building mesh networking platforms and deploying services. WiMesh 2009 will be a one-day forum for meeting, presenting and discussing core technical issues and current research problems in wireless mesh networking.

Registration

WiMesh is co-located with SECON 2009. Register for both: http://www.ieee-secon.org/registration.html

Technical program

• 9-10: Keynote speech delivered by Prof. Marwan Krunz, Dept. of ECE, Univ. of Arizona, UA
  Title: Opportunistic Radio Networks: Prospects and Challenges
  Bio: Marwan Krunz is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Arizona and the UA site director for Connection One, a joint NSF/state/industry IUCRC cooperative center that focuses on RF and wireless communication systems and networks. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University in 1995. He joined the University of Arizona in January 1997, after a brief postdoctoral stint at the University of Maryland, College Park. He previously held visiting research positions at INRIA, HP Labs, University of Paris VI, and US West (now Qwest) Advanced Technologies. His research interests lie in the fields of computer networking and wireless communications. His current research is focused on cognitive radios and SDRs; distributed radio resource management in wireless networks; channel access and protocol design; MIMO and smart-antenna systems; UWB-based personal area networks; energy management and clustering in sensor networks; media streaming; QoS routing; and fault monitoring/detection in optical networks. He has published more than 150 journal articles and refereed conference papers, and is a co-inventor on US patents. M. Krunz is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1998), serves or has served on the editorial board of several journals, and has served as Technical Program Chair of several conferences, incluing IEEE SECON and IEEE INFOCOM.
• 10-10.30: Networking break
• 10.30-12.00: Session 1 - Scheduling and Throughput Maximization
• Clique-based Utility Maximization in Wireless Mesh Networks: Algorithm, Simulation, and Mathematical Analysis
  Erwu Liu, Qinqing Zhang, and Kin Leung
  
• A Cross-Layer Architecture for Efficient Multi-Hop Communication in Multi-Channel Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
  Marco Di Felice, Sara Pizzi, Antonella Molinaro, and Luciano Bononi
  
• Decoupled Optimization of Interference Aware Routing and Scheduling for Throughput Maximization in Wireless Relay Mesh Networks
  Preetha Thulasiraman, and Sherman Shen
• 12.00-13.30: Lunch Break
• 13.30-15.00: Session 2 - Routing
• Layer 2.5 Routing in Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh Networks
  Stefano Avallone, Francesco Paolo D'Elia, and Giorgio Ventre
  
• Quantitative Measurement of Routing Restoration Strategies for Multi-hop Wireless Networks
  Shanshan Jiang, and Yuan Xue
  
• DHT-based Cluster Routing Protocol for IEEE 802.11s Mesh Networks
  Marcos Pinheiro, Francisco Vasques, Silvio Sampaio, and Pedro Souto
• 15.00-15.30: Networking break
• 15.30-17.00: Session 3 - Measurements and Routing
• Measurement Study of 802.11g based Wireless Mesh Network Links
  Pulkit Gupta, Bharat Jain, Bhaskaran Raman, and Purushottam Kulkarni
  
• Interference-Aware Route Management in Wireless Mesh Networks
  Youngbin Im, Jeongkeun Lee, Jinyoung Han, Sung-Ju Lee, and Taekyoung Kwon
  
• Inter-Piconet Route Discovery to Support 60 GHz based Wireless Mesh Networks
  Xueli An, and Ramin Hekmat

Organizers

Workshop Chairs

Paolo Santi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica del CNR, Pisa, Italy

Karthik Sundaresan, NEC Labs USA, Princeton

Technical Program Committee

• Douglas Blough, Georgia Tech, US
• Christian Bonnet, EURECOM, France
• Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft Research, US
• Romit Roy Choudhury, Duke Univ., US
• Samir Das, Stony Brook Univ., US
• Stephan Eidenbenz, Los Alamos National Labs, US
• Seongkwan Kim, Samsung Electronics, Korea
• SJ Lee, HP Labs, US
• Luciano Lenzini, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
• C. Lindemann, Univ. Leipzig, Germany
• Thyaga Nandagopal, Alcatel-Lucent, US
• Xavier Perez Costa, NEC Labs, Germany
• Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay, India
• Ram Ramanathan, BBN Technologies, US
• Theodoros Salonidis, Thomson Labs, France
• Michele Zorzi, Univ. of Padova, Italy
  
  

Call for Papers

Starting from 2008, WiMesh includes in the program papers submitted through an open Call for Papers. Given its one-day, highly interactive format, papers presenting innovative ideas, although possibly not fully mature, are very welcome. Papers must be formatted according to IEEE conference proceedings style (see here for detailed instructions and styles), and must not exceed 6 pages . Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Experiences with the deployment of wireless mesh networks
• Wireless mesh network performance
• Unique challenges found in wireless mesh networks
• Co-existence of wireless mesh networks with existing 802.11 infrastructure and solutions
• Experimental validation of wireless mesh network algorithms
• Architectures, protocols, and algorithms for wireless mesh networks
• Localization and mobility in wireless mesh networks
• Security, privacy, and trustworthiness
• Integration of wireless mesh networks with other wired and wireless networks
• Protocols exploiting novel technologies such as UWB, MIMO, directional antennas, and software radios
• Wireless mesh network testbeds

Paper submission through EDAS

Submission to WiMesh 2009 is closed

Important Dates

Paper submission (extended):	March 31, 2009
Notification:	April 30, 2009
Camera Ready:	May 9, 2009