The focus of the WICON2006conference is on architectural, networking, security, performance and management aspects of cellular, WiFi, WiMax and other Wireless Internet technologies. Preference will be given to papers describing implementations, deployment, measurements, empirical performance evaluation and experiments. The conference will also put a special emphasis on integration and convergence issues of various wireless technologies and architectures, as well as cross-layer aspects, such as QoS, billing, and security. Given the existence of other conferences on mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and the like, papers that are oriented to ad hoc and sensor networks are discouraged unless they directly focus on the conference theme of the Wireless Internet.
WICON is initiating a industrial research track for the first time with the hope of showcasing ongoing high quality research in the industry and fostering much needed dialog between industry researchers and academia. One full day of the conference will be devoted to the industrial track. WICON industry track papers should describe original work that has been neither previously published nor is under review by another conference or journal. The page limit is 10 pages in IEEE double column format. Industry track papers must have at least one author from industry, and should describe interesting technical aspects of industrial applications, prototypes, experiences, and standards; performance and design details are encouraged, whereas papers focused on marketing or product information will not be accepted. For easy identification, all industry track papers should have as their title "Industry Track: rest of title." Papers will be submitted by electronic submission through COCUS system: http://cocus.create-net.it. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Implementation, deployment and measurements Mobile network architectures
▪ performance of 2G, 3G, WiFi and WiMax systems ▪ mobile networks beyond the 3rd generation
▪ wireless network design, dimensioning and analysis ▪ IP Multimedia Subsystem architecture and protocols
▪ implementation, experimental systems and measurements ▪ hybrid wireless architectures, fixed mobile convergence
▪ user behavior, traffic measurements and forecasting ▪ service network architectures
Applications and services for mobile users Wireless management, security and systems issues
▪ application platforms and middleware ▪ wireless network management and diagnosis
▪ application performance, performance enhancement ▪ security, malware, viruses and spam in wireless Internet
▪ VoIP over wireless and cellular networks ▪ pricing and billing
▪ vertical wireless application design (e.g. health care) ▪ reliability of wireless networks and services
▪ design and performance of wireless Internet applications
(e.g., mobile gaming)
Industry Track Chair
Sujata Banerjee, HP Labs
Milind Buddhikot, Lucent Bell Labs
Program Committee
Arup Acharya, IBM Watson
John Chapin, Vanu, Inc.
Richard Chen, Philips Labs
Gabor Fodor, Ericcson Research
Stefan Mangold, Swisscomm
Ajita John, Avaya labs
Thierry Kline, Bell Labs
Satya Mallya, France Telecom R&D
Amit Nanavati, IBM India Research Labs
Anand Prasad, Euro DoCoMo labs
Jacky Shen, Microsoft Research
Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, Bangalore
G. Venkatesh, Sasken India
John Wullert, Telcordia
Important Dates:
Submission of full papers: May 1, 2006
Acceptance Notification: June 2, 2006
Final Camera Ready Version Due: June 16, 2006