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                           ACM MSWiM 2001
           4th ACM International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis
              and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems
 

                In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2001
                      July 16-21th, 2001
                 URL: http://www.cs.unibo.it/mswim2001/
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                               SCOPE
 
In its forth year, the 2001 International Workshop on Modeling and
Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, will take place in Rome, Italy,
just after the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
(MobiCom 2001), in July 2001. This is an excellent opportunity to partake
in two events covering a wide range of research in wireless and mobile systems.
 
                        WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
 
Wireless systems are growing incredibly fast in recent years. Pushed by the
increase of the number of users and by the introduction of new services, and
supported by the development of new technologies, the growth of the complexity
of these systems makes the performance evaluation and design of wireless
systems more and more challenging. Simulation is frequently used as an
approach to cope with the variety of details typical of complex wireless and
mobile systems. Analytical approaches are necessary to provide a deep
comprehension of the system dynamics which have a major impact on the
performance.
 
This workshop will focus on all aspects of wireless systems, particularly
modeling analysis and simulation in wireless communication.
 
ACM MSWiM 2001 serves as a forum for researchers from academia, industry and
research labs, for presenting recent research results in Modeling and
Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems. The conference features prominent
invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field.
A special session will be devoted to the proposal of new tools.
 
The workshop will include contributed technical papers, invited papers,
and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by ACM CS-press.
 
A Special Issue with ACM/Baltzer MONET/WINET will be planned which will contain
selected papers from MSWiM.
 
                     WORKSHOP CALL-FOR-PAPERS
 
Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of
significance. Demonstration of new tools and simulation languages are very
desirable.
 
The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to:
 
- Performance evaluation and modeling of mobile and wireless communication
  networks FDMA, TDMA, CDMA system RF capacity simulation and analysis
- Simulation methodology for large scale wireless systems Network support for
  QoS provisioning in wireless and mobile systems
- Simulation and analysis of wireless protocols and standards Modeling and
  simulation of mobile computing systems
- Design methodologies for wireless systems
- Wireless data and multimedia services
- Traffic measurements in wireless systems
- New simulation languages and tools for wireless systems
- Parallel and distributed simulation of wireless systems
- Modeling and analysis of speech, audio and video wireless transmission
- Database management systems and mobile computing (location based queries,
  wireless data caching, mobile transactions)
- Wireless data dissemination (broadcasting and indexing techniques)
- Ad Hoc networking and computing
- Mobile agents support for wireless networks
 

                       SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
 
Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages. Papers
must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere.
 
Authors are encouraged to submit papers in electronic form to
mswim@mail.tlc.polito.it in postscript or pdf format.
Each submission must be accompanied by the following information: a short
abstract, a complete list of authors and their affiliations, a contact person
for correspondence, postal and e-mail addresses.
 
                       IMPORTANT DATES
 

  Submission Deadline: May 5, 2001.
  Notification of Acceptance: June 5, 2001
  Camera Ready version due: TBD
  Workshop presentation in Rome: July 21, 2001
 

IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY.
 
                       ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
 
   GENERAL CHAIR
 
    Lorenzo Donatiello
    Dept. of Computer Science
    Univ. of Bologna, Italy
    Phone: +39-051-2094512
    Fax : +39-051-2094510
    donat@cs.unibo.it
 

   PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
 
    Michela Meo
    Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino
    C.so Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino - Italy
    Phone: + 39 011 564 4167
    Fax: + 39 011 564 4099
    michela@polito.it
 
    Teresa A. Dahlberg
    Department of Computer Science
    University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Charlotte, NC
    Phone: +1 704 687 2348 
    tdahlber@uncc.edu
 
    FINANCE CHAIR and MobiCom LIASON
     Azzedine Boukerche, Univ.of North Texas
     boukerche@cs.unt.edu
 
    REGISTRATION CHAIR
     Tom Jacob, Univ.of North Texas
 
    PUBLICITY CO_CHAIRS
 
    Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare                Albert Y. Zomaya
    Federal Univ. of Santa Catarina                     The Univ. of Western Australia
    Florianopolis, Brazil                                      Western Australia
 
    Gary S. H. Tan
    National University of Singapore/Brunel Univ., UK
 

    PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 
     Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
     Marwan Al-Akaidi, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
     Simonetta Balsamo, Universita' di Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy
     Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas, USA
     Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
     Franco Davoli, Universita' di Genova, Italy
     Juan Carlos De Martin, CNR, Italy
     Lorenzo Donatiello, Universita' di Bologna, Italy
     Alois Ferscha, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria
     Vincenzo Grassi, Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
     Faruk Hadziomerovic, Systems Engineering, NORTEL, USA
     Mohan Kumar, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
     Jason Lin Yi-Bing, National Chiao-Tung Univ. Taiwan
     Boris Lubachevsky, ATT Labs, NJ, USA
     Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Fed. Univ. of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, BR
     Krishna Sivalingam, Washington State University, USA
     Mineo Takai, UCLA, USA
     Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wurzburg, Germany
     Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Western Australia
 

     Steering Committee Chair
       Azzedine Boukerche, Univ. of North Texas
 
     Advisory Board Committee
 
       Azzedine Boukerche, Univ.of North Texas
       William C. Y. Lee, AirTouch Inc.
       Jason Yi-Bing Lin, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
       Sajal K. Das , University of Texas at Arlington
       Lorenzo Donatiello, Univ. of Bologna, Italy