Universidade Federal

do Rio de Janeiro

Seventh WIRELESS DAYS CONFERENCE

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 12 - 14, 2014

http://www.wireless-days.org/ Conference chairs: Luís Henrique M. K. Costa and Miguel Elias M. Campista

Program co-chairs: Artur Ziviani, Cigdem Sengul, and José Marcos Nogueira

Wireless Days is a major international conference which aims at bringing together researchers, technologists and visionaries from academia, research labs and industry, engineers and students to exchange, discuss and share their experiences, ideas and research about theoretical and practical aspects of wireless networking. The conference will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative wireless systems, prototyping efforts, case studies and advances in technology related to wireless networking and communications infrastructures. Wireless Days program will include the following six conference tracks:

Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

Track 2: Wireless Network Protocols and

Applications

Track 3: Vehicular and Delay Tolerant

Networks

Track 4: Broadband Wireless

Track 5: Wireless Models and Simulations

Track 6: Wireless and Mobile Network

Management Program co-chairs: Anelise Munaretto Thierry Gayraud

Program co-chairs: Mauro Fonseca Ted (Taekyoung) Kwon

Program co-chairs: Giovanni Pau Michele Nogueira

Program co-chairs: Edmundo Monteiro Merouane Debbah

Program co-chairs: Igor Monteiro Moraes Manuel P. Ricardo

Program co-chairs: Edmundo Madeira Fabrizio Granelli

! Unicast and multicast routing ! MAC protocols and scheduling ! Machine to Machine (M2M)

communications, networking and applications

! Radio resource management in wireless networks

! Protocols and mechanisms for QoS support

! Self-organization and network reconfiguration

! Security, privacy and trust ! Energy-efficient communications ! Modeling and algorithmic challenges

in wireless networks ! WSN for health/ecology/emergency ! Wireless mesh networks ! Vehicular ad-hoc networks ! Underwater sensor networks ! Implementations, testbeds, and

prototypes

! Wireless multimedia networking issues

! Wireless multimedia broadcast/multicast

! Emerging wireless protocols and applications

! Multimedia coding and compression ! Portable multimedia device

applications ! Real time streaming ! QoS middleware ! Network virtualisation ! Networked appliances and distributed

multimedia services ! Application Quality-of-Service and

Quality of Experience in wireless networks

! Protocol optimization in wireless networks

! Multimedia wireless networking protocols

! Performance measurement in wireless multimedia networks

! Cross-layer design for multimedia applications

! …

! Challenges of V2V, V2I, and I2V wireless communication

! Vehicular ad hoc networks ! Vehicular and delay tolerant

applications ! Vehicular network architecture and

protocols ! Vehicular network performance

modeling and analysis ! Vehicular network medium access

control and routing protocols ! Cross-layer design and optimization

for vehicular networks ! Delay-tolerant transport protocols ! Mobility/disruption-aware routing

protocols ! Reliability and fault tolerance ! Energy, processing power and storage

requirements for vehicular and delay tolerant networks

! Localization and location management ! Security and privacy ! Reputation systems and incentives for

cooperation in Electric vehicles (EVs) and the smart grid

! …

! Broadband wireless technologies: HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN

! Machine to Machine (M2M) communications, networking and applications

! Broadband wireless network services and applications

! Service-oriented wireless mesh network architecture

! Radio resource management ! Scheduling and queuing ! Quality of Service (QoS) ! Capacity planning and dimensioning ! New network architectures and

operation ! Cross-layer modeling and design ! Cross-layer approaches for service-

oriented broadband wireless networks ! QoS provisioning through

interconnected wired and wireless segments

! Routing for service-oriented wireless networks

! Heterogeneity and diversity ! …

! Modeling, simulations and performance analysis

! Optimization of network design ! Energy efficiency ! Simulation languages and tools for

wireless systems ! Wireless measurements tools and

experiences ! Formal methods for the analysis of

wireless systems ! Correctness, survivability and

reliability evaluation ! Mobility modeling and management ! Models and protocols for cognitive

radio networks ! Capacity, coverage and connectivity

modeling and analysis ! Pervasive computing and emerging

models ! Mobile applications, system software

and algorithms ! RF channel modeling and analysis ! Design methodologies ! Analytical models ! …

! Network management solutions for dedicated wireless technologies (Ad hoc networks, mobile networks, Personal Area Networks, Wireless LANs, Sensor networks, Broadband access networks, Wireless home networks)

! Mobile multimedia service management

! Mobile data service management ! Virtualized infrastructure management ! Fault management in mobile and

wireless networks ! Configuration management in mobile

and wireless networks ! Accounting management in mobile

and wireless networks ! Performance management in mobile

and wireless networks ! Security management in mobile and

wireless networks ! Event management in mobile and

wireless networks ! …

IMPORTANT DATES : Submission deadline: June 06, 2014 Notification of acceptance: Sep 12, 2014 Camera-ready version: Sep 22, 2014