Call For Participation: The 8th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2013) August 7-10, 2013, Zhangjiajie, China
====================================================== WASA 2013 – Call for participation ====================================================== The 8th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2013) August 7-10, 2013 Zhangjiajie, China http://www.wasa2013.org ====================================================== We invite you to participate to the 8th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2013), that will be held from August 7-10, 2013 in Zhangjiajie, China. (http://www.wasa2013.org) WASA is an international conference on algorithms, systems, and applications of wireless networks. It is motivated by the recent advances in cutting-edge electronic and computer technologies that have paved the way for the proliferation of ubiquitous infrastructure and infrastructureless wireless networks. WASA is designed to be a forum for theoreticians, system and application designers, protocol developers and practitioners to discuss and express their views on the current trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art solutions related to various issues in wireless networks. Topics of interests include, but not limited to, effective and efficient state-of-the-art algorithm design and analysis, reliable and secure system development and implementations, experimental study and testbed validation, and new application exploration in wireless networks. ====================================================== In addition to technical sessions, the conference will feature the following keynote speeches and panel: Keynote 1: How to Effectively Utilize the Harvested Resource in Cognitive Radio Networks Yuguang “Michael” Fang, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida Abstract: Cognitive radios are designed to sense the unused spectrum and opportunistically utilize such resource to support communications services without affecting the services of the incumbent spectrum users. Unfortunately, most research focuses on either cognitive radio design or spectrum sensing for mostly one-hop communications, leading to schemes only of theoretical research. In this talk, the speaker will present a novel network architecture which can enable spectrum harvesting and more effective use of the harvested spectrum. Besides, this network architecture can be used to identify the “hidden” network capability and provides more effective service provisioning. Finally, when this architecture is integrated with cellular systems, the non-cognitive cellular devices can also take advantage of this architecture and the system capacity of cellular systems can be enhanced. Keynote 2: Mobile Cloud Computing: The Beginning of the End? Baochun Li, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto Abstract: Mobile cloud computing has received a substantial amount of academic research attention and interests in the past three years, represented by not only the number of papers published, but also by the advent of dedicated workshops (such as the MCC workshops at SIGCOMM since last year). In essence, mobile cloud computing is about remedying the limited resource availability on mobile devices with the resource abundance in the cloud. Since the most important resources on mobile devices are computing cycles and battery energy, existing works in the literature are primarily concerned with offloading computing cycles to the cloud, in order to improve performance of computational-intensive applications, or to reduce energy consumption. Such computational offloading is performed at the granularity of a method or a thread in mobile applications, as represented by recent papers such as MAUI (MobiSys 2010), CloneCloud (EuroSys 2011), and COMET (OSDI 2012). However, it is unfortunate that every time computation is offloaded from a mobile device to the cloud, we have to transmit the application states at runtime over the network, with the potential risk of consuming even more energy than performing the same computation locally on the mobile device. From this perspective, such computational offloading only makes practical sense if the performance gain is worth the energy cost of transmitting data over the network. Since the questions of how and when computation should be offloaded have been thoroughly answered by existing works in the literature, one would naturally wonder (with a touch of pessimism) whether we have entered the beginning of the end of research on mobile cloud computing. In this talk, we advocate that mobile cloud computing should not be limited to offloading computing cycles to the cloud, but should also be concerned with the use of the cloud to assist interactive and delay-sensitive applications. As two examples, we briefly introduce our recent work on streaming gestures among users in gesture-intensive interactive applications, and on the use of inter-datacenter networks in the cloud to improve the performance of multi-party video conferencing. In fact, a recent public message from the chief architect of Skype has explained how mobile devices have accelerated the conversion of Skype from a peer-to-peer architecture to a cloud-assisted design. Regardless of how practical computational offloading is, we believe that mobile applications will forever be tightly integrated with the cloud, which is what mobile cloud computing is all about. Panel 1: Recent trends in the frontiers of wireless algorithms Panelists: Junshan Zhang (Moderator), Yuguang Fang, Baochun Li, Nei Kato ====================================================== Conference Organizations: General Co-Chairs: Ming Xu (National University of Defense Technology, China) Xiaohua Jia (HongKong City University, Hong Kong, China) Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs: Xue Liu (McGill University, Canada) Kui Ren (SUNY Buffalo, USA) Weifa Liang (Australia National University, Australia) _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
