WCC 2004

Mobility will inevitably be one of the main characteristics of future networks, terminals and applications and, thus, extending and integrating fixed network protocols and services to mobile systems represents one of the main issues of present networking.

This workshop focus on the challenges of mobility, that is, on technologies, protocols and services for the support of seamless and nomadic user access to new classes of applications in person-to-person, device-to-device and device-to-person environments.

The workshop is intended to constitute an international forum for presentation and discussion of the challenges in the areas of mobile computing and wireless and mobile networking, at the link layer and above. In order to provide a basis for lively discussion and active participation from all attendees, submissions reporting exciting on-going work were favoured.

The workshop is a single track, full-day event, on August 27, 2004, with a limited number of participants. The workshop opens with a keynote speech from Prof. Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA, an internationally recognized personality in the wireless and mobility arena. This will be followed by the presentation of regular papers and by a closing panel on the Challenges of Mobility. Based on the ideas presented and discussed during the day, the panel will address, analyse, discuss and sum up controversial, innovative and/or open issues in the area, with the aim of opening up avenues for future research. The members of the panel will be selected among program committee members and presenters.

Topics

Papers have been selected in the following areas:

. Seamless mobility
. Mobile ad hoc and sensor networks
. Analysis, simulation and measurements of mobile and wireless systems
. Integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks
. QoS in mobile and wireless networks
. Future trends and issues concerning mobility