Call for Papers: WISARD 2008 A workshop in COMSWARE 2008 5-6 Jan 2008, Bangalore, INDIA /This workshop is the result of several conversations with faculty, students, and industry personnel on improving the state of technology and research in the developing world./ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The second annual workshop on *WIreless Systems: Advanced Research and Development? (WISARD 2008)* will provide a platform for researchers from both academia and industry to present and discuss high quality research and development in the area of *wireless systems*. To uphold quality, the workshop will be highly selective. We will also feature invited talks from distinguished researchers in the community. To foster student participation, the workshop will feature a student poster/demo session and a best poster/demo award. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting new research covering all layers of the protocol stack: physical to application. Submissions must be unpublished, original, and of high quality. They should not be currently under review for publication in any other venue. We especially encourage submissions on wireless/network systems targeted for the /developing world/. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Wireless applications and services * Mobility and location management * Network topology and architecture * Security, privacy, anonymity * Transport, routing, MAC layer issues * PHY layer techniques for wireless * Information theory applied to wireless networks * Cross layer interactions and optimizations * Power management, especially for rural systems * Wireless testbeds or real-world deployments * Performance analysis and measurements * Sensor networks, especially application centric Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings published by IEEE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsors: Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore Microsoft Research India, Bangalore Motorola Labs, Bangalore Alcatel-Lucent, Bangalore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Student poster session:* The poster session complements the main program by offering an opportunity for students to present recent on-going or as-yet incomplete research results in the topics of interest as listed above. Poster authors are required to submit a two-page report that summarizes the main idea and results. Poster proposals will be judged on relevance, originality and significance. *Research demos:* The workshop will have a session on live demos along with the poster session. Authors (especially students) are encouraged to submit proposals for the same. The proposals should not exceed two pages and should include a description of the demo and equipment to be used. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Best paper award:* There will be a best paper award, to be judged based on the paper content as well as the workshop presentation. The award in WISARD-2007 was won by: VillageNet: A low-cost, 802.11-based mesh network for rural regions, Sharad Jaiswal (Bell Labs Research India, Lucent Technologies), Rajeev Rastogi, (Bell Labs Research India, Lucent Technologies), Ajay Todimala K (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Partha Dutta (Bell Labs Research India, Lucent Technologies), Naidu K V M (Bell Labs Research India, Lucent Technologies), Debmalya Panigrahi (Bell Labs Research India, Lucent Technologies) *Best student poster/demo award:* Student posters and demos will be considered for this award. The award will be based on quality of work, student understanding, and clarity of explanation during the poster/demo session. The award in WISARD-2007 was won by: "BRIMON: Railway BRIdge MONitoring", Nilesh Mishra, Raj Kumar, Phani Kumar, Hemanth Haridas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Student sponsorships:* A limited number of merit-based student sponsorships are available to support travel and registration. Please watch this page for instructions on how to apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Invited speakers (so far):* * Hari Balakrishnan, MIT * Eric Brewer, UCB (tentative) * Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, RPI * Anurag Kumar, IISc * P. R. Kumar, UIUC * Vishnu Navda, SUNY-SB * Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay * Vinay Ribeiro, IIT-Delhi * Kang Shin, U-Michigan * Vikram Srinivasan, NUS * Geoffrey Voelker, UCSD * Roger Wattenhofer, ETH ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Dates:* * Paper submission deadline: 24 Sep 2007 * Notification of paper acceptance: 29 Oct 2007 * Poster/demo submission deadline: 31 Oct 2007 * Poster/demo acceptance notification: 09 Nov 2007 * Camera ready submission: 15 Nov 2007 * *Workshop: 5-6 Jan 2008* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Submission instructions:* * *Regular papers:* regular submissions must be the original, unpublished work of authors, and must not be under review in any other venue. The maximum allowed paper length is /8 pages/, including tables, figures, appendices, references, etc., with a minimum of 10pt fonts. Submissions must be in PDF format. * *Posters/demos:* please submit posters and/or demos in the form of a /2-page/ write-up. Submissions must be in PDF format. *Double-blind review process:* The review process will be /double blind/. The authors' name(s), affiliation, etc. should not appear anywhere in the submission. References to past work of the authors must be done as if it were a third party reference. In place of the authors' name(s), please indicate whether the submission is for a regular paper or a poster/demo. For further instructions on paper submission, please see the WISARD'08 web-page at: http://www.comsware.org/wisard/wisard.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *TPC chairs:* Rajesh Sundaresan, Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, IISc Bhaskaran Raman, Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, IIT Kanpur *Invited Talks Chair:* Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research, Bangalore *TPC members: * Ajay Bakre, Intel Labs, Bangalore Aditya Karnik, GM Research, Bangalore Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Motorola India, Bangalore Vivek Mhatre, Lucent Bell Labs, Bangalore Onkar Dabeer, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Srikrishna Bhashyam, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras D. Manjunath, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Huzur Saran, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Ajit Chaturvedi, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Arvind Keerthi, Signatech Wireless, Bangalore Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore ------------------------------------------------------------------------