Call for papers

THE PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO *** MARCH 15, 2007 (11.59pm PST) ***

Opportunistic Networks are one of the most exciting evolutions of the legacy Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET) paradigm, in which the assumption of complete paths between data senders and receivers is released. Opportunistic Networks enable users communication in disconnected environments, in which island of connected devices appear, disappear, and reconfigure dynamically. The network is thus extremely dynamic, and is formed by the evolving contacts among mobile devices, and among connected clouds of devices. In this view, legacy-Internet connectivity is just a particular connectivity opportunity. Opportunistic Networks thus encompass the features and methods of delay or disruption tolerant networks (DTN). They are very suitable to support the pervasive networking scenario, in which a huge number of devices carried by users and embedded in the environment communicate wirelessly without requiring any pre-existing infrastructure. By enabling end-to-end communication without requiring complete paths, Opportunistic Networks are much closer to real pervasive networking scenarios, with respect to the legacy MANET paradigm.

Original contributions are solicited, related to systems and protocols design, development and analysis, in all areas related to Opportunistic Networking. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Architectures for opportunistic networks
• (Killer) applications for opportunistic networks
• Middleware services in opportunistic networks
• Dissemination and replication techniques for opportunistic networks
• Resource management techniques for opportunistic networks
• Transport and reliability issues in opportunistic networks
• Routing issues in opportunistic networks
• Wireless link design and optimisation for opportunistic networks
• Opportunistic Networking in Wireless Sensor Networks
• Security issues in opportunistic networks
• Trust and cooperation in opportunistic networks
• Mobility models for opportunistic networks
• Tools and techniques for designing, analyzing and building opportunistic networks
• Opportunistic networks testbeds and measurements
• Opportunistic networks performance modeling

Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible fast track publication on the Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier).