Call for Posters/Demos: WISARD 2008
A workshop in COMSWARE 2008
5-6 Jan 2008, Bangalore, INDIA
http://www.comsware.org/wisard/wisard.html

/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./

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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/demos presenting preliminary
research covering all layers of the protocol stack: physical to
application. 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

*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.

The abstracts of the accepted papers/demos will be included in the
workshop proceedings published by IEEE.

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Sponsors:
	Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore
	Microsoft Research India, Bangalore
	Motorola Labs, Bangalore
	Alcatel-Lucent, Bangalore

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*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.

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*Student sponsorships:* A limited number of merit-based student
sponsorships are available to support travel and registration. Please
watch the WISARD webpage for instructions on how to apply.

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*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

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*Dates:*

    * 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*

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*Submission instructions:*

    * *Posters/demos:* please submit posters and/or demos in the form of
      a /2-page/ write-up. Submissions must be in PDF format.

For poster/demo submissions, just send your PDF file by email to
Bhaskaran Raman (br at cse dot iitb dot ac dot in).

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*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

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