Call for Papers: WISARD 2009 A workshop in COMSNETS 2009 05-06 Jan 2008, Bangalore, INDIA The third annual workshop on “WIreless Systems: Advanced Research and Development” (WISARD 2009) 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. 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 Submissions must be unpublished, original, and not more than 10 pages in length. 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 test-beds 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. The workshop will also feature a student poster/demo session, and invited talks from distinguished researchers in the community. 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 listed above. Poster authors are invited to submit a two-page report that summarizes the main idea and results. 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. Dates: · Paper/poster/demo submission: 16 Oct. 2008 [Closed] · Notification of paper acceptance: 26 November 2008 [Notified] · Camera ready submission: 18 December 2008 · Workshop: 5-6 January 2009 Submission instructions: · Submissions must be original, unpublished work of authors, and must not be under review in any other venue. · Regular papers: 10 pages · Posters/demos: 2 pages. · Please visit http://www.comsnets.org/wisardsubmission.htm to submit and for further instructions. TPC chairs: Rajesh Sundaresan, Department of ECE, IISc, Bangalore, India. Vikram Srinivasan, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Bangalore, India. TPC members: Ajay Bakre, Intel India Srikrishna Bhashyam, IIT-Madras, Chennai Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida Ajit Chaturvedi, IIT-Kanpur Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino Sharad Jaiswal, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Motorola Abhay Karandikar, IIT-Mumbai Aditya Karnik, General Motors India Science Lab Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science D. Manjunath, IIT-Mumbai Neelesh B. Mehta, Indian Institute of Science Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research India Bhaskaran Raman, IIT-Mumbai Vinay Ribeiro, IIT-Delhi