26-30 November 2007 Washington, DC, USA

Co-Chairs
Prof. Azzedine Boukerche, Email: boukerch@site.uottawa.ca
Prof. Hussein Mouftah, Email: mouftah@site.uottawa.ca
Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Email: hshwchen@ieee.org

Scope
Multi-hop wireless Ad Hoc and sensor networks are self-organizing systems formed by co-operating nodes within communication range of each other that form temporary networks. Ad hoc wireless networks allow anywhere, anytime network connectivity with complete lack of control, ownership, and regulatory influence. The last few years have witnessed a wealth of research ideas on ad hoc and sensor networks that are moving rapidly into commercialization and standardization. Such networks can be randomly and rapidly deployed and reconfigured and easily tailored to specific applications including entertainment, civilian, military, etc. Moreover, an ad hoc architecture is highly robust to node failure and can provide a high-level of fault tolerance due to nodal redundancy and its distributed nature. Furthermore, energy efficiency can be achieved through multi-hop routing communication. Bandwidth reuse can also benefit from dividing the single long range hop to multiple short hops with each hop having a shorter range. Several challenges face are standing in the way to achieving ubiquitous deployment of ad hoc and sensor networks. These include variable topology, device heterogeneity, limited power supply and the lack of effective energy-efficient design, lack of QoS and application support, etc.

This symposium aims at providing a forum for sharing ideas among researchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions to the challenges above. We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of ad hoc and sensor networks. You are invited to submit original technical papers covering but not limited to the following topics. Please visit the mail IEEE Globecom 2007 Webpage for submission details and on-line submissions at http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2007/.

Topics of Interest
• Algorithms and modeling for mobile user localization and target tracking
• Analytical, mobility and validation models for ad hoc networks
• Applications and evolutions of Ad hoc and sensor networks
• Architectures of wireless communication and mobile computing
• Co-existence issues of hybrid networks
• Cross-layer design and interactions
• Cryptography and security issues in ad hoc and sensor networks
• Data management, data aggregation, data dissemination, and query processing
• Distributed algorithms for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
• Frequency and channel allocation algorithms
• IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth based medium access control
• MAC protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks
• Mobile service and QoS management
• Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and ad hoc networks
• Pervasive and wearable computing
• Physical layer design of ad hoc networks
• Power control protocols for ad hoc and sensor networks
• Pricing modeling and solutions
• QoS provisioning in medium access control and routing
• Resource management algorithms in mobile, wireless and ad-hoc networks
• RF channel capacity modeling and analysis
• Service discovery in Ad hoc networks
• Simulation and measurement based evaluation of ad hoc and sensor
• Survivability and reliability evaluation and modeling
• Synchronization and scheduling in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks systems
• Topology control and management
• Ubiquitous, pervasive and mobile access
• Wireless ad hoc and sensor devices
• Wireless PANs, LANs based Ad hoc networks

Technical Program Committee, whose complete list can be found at Homepage:
http://paradise.site.uottawa.ca/~Globecom07-SensorNet