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This minitrack will cover both the area of Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs).
Wireless personal area networks (WPANs) are short to very short-range (from a couple centimeters to a couple of meters) wireless networks that can be used to exchange information between devices in the reach of a person. WPANs can be used to replace cables between computers and their peripherals, to establish communities helping people do their everyday chores making them more productive, or to establish location aware services. Even today a growing percentage of PDAs, phones, laptops include WPAN technology and the number of small WPAN enabled devices (e.g., pens, cameras, headsets, various sensors) might soon outnumber the computers on the Internet. The best example representing WPANs is the recent industry standard: Bluetooth, other examples include Spike (for real time gaming - proprietary technology), and the upcoming IEEE 802.15 standard.
Despite the recent success of technologies like Bluetooth, the research work carried out and presented e.g. at the recent WPAN minitracks at HICSS indicate that there exist a lot of problems e.g. in the inquiry process or in setting up larger Bluetooth networks that need to be addressed in future research.
The construction of larger Bluetooth networks (so called Scatternets) leads over to the second topic of our minitrack: mobile ad hoc networks. Whereas the idea of creating infrastructure-less mobile networks dates back into the seventies (e.g. the PRNET experiment) and to early experiments in the military sector it is not until the nineties that this form of networks received significant attention in the research community. The initial but still ongoing works focused on developing different routing protocols for MANETs, like AODV, DSR, OLSR and many more. Later other aspects of MANETs were included, like security, quality of service, and applications. Today research in ad-hoc networks gathers mostly around the IETF MANET working group, continuing the research in routing protocols, and the IRTF ANS research group, focusing in the scalability of ad hoc networks. A lot of international and national research projects with project partners like Daimler-Chrysler indicate the increasing interest that companies take in MANETs. Today ad-hoc networks are one of the most active research fields in the area of wireless networking as is indicated by the conference coverage outlined below. A lot of issues regarding MANETs are not yet resolved (like security, QoS, scalability issues etc.) and the 2005 WPAN minitrack provided some significant results in these sectors. Most importantly, we had some interesting papers demonstrating application scenarios for MANETs.
Our goal is to bring together leading researchers in the two fields of research in order to present new results and discuss synergies between the two areas.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
| Abstracts | Authors may contact Minitrack Chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content at anytime. |
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| June 15 | Authors submit full papers to the Peer Review System, following Author Instructions found on the HICSS web site (www.hicss.hawaii.edu). All papers will be submitted in double column publication format and limited to 10 pages including diagrams and references. Papers undergo a double-blind review. |
| August 15 | Acceptance/Rejection notices are sent to Authors via the Peer Review System. |
| September
15 New Date! |
Authors submit Final Version of papers following submission instructions on the Peer Review System web site. At least one author of each paper must register by this date with specific plans to attend the conference to present the paper. Early Registration fee $525 applies. |
| October 2 | Registration fee $575 applies until December 10. |
| December 10 | Deadline to guarantee your hotel room reservation at
conference rate. Deadline to receive conference registration refund. Late registration fee $675 applies. |
Collaboration Systems and Technology
Co-chair: Robert O. Briggs (bbriggs@GroupSystems)
Co-chair: Jay Nunamaker (jnunamaker@cmi.arizona.edu)
Decision Technologies for Management
Chair: Dan Dolk (drdolk@nps.edu)
Digital Media: Content and Communication
Chair: Michael Shepherd (shepherd@cs.cal.ca)
E-Government
Chair: H. Jochen Scholl (jscholl@u.washington.edu)
Information Technology in Health Care
Chair: William Chismar (chismar@hawaii.edu)
Internet & the Digital Economy
Co-chair: David King (david.king@jda.com)
Co-chair: Alan Dennis (ardennis@indiana.edu)
Knowledge Management Systems
Co-chair: Murray Jennex (murphjen@aol.com)
Co-chair: Dave Croasdell (davec@unr.edu)
Organizational Systems & Technology
Chair: Hugh Watson (hwatson@terry.uga.edu)
Software Technology
Chair: Gul Agha (agha@cs.uiuc.edu)
HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a double-blind peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously published.
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