[Tccc] WASA 2013 - Call For Participation
Zhi Sun
zhisunatbuffalo.edu
Tue Jul 23 00:14:27 EDT 2013
Call For Participation: The 8th International Conference on Wireless
Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2013)
August 7-10, 2013, Zhangjiajie, China
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WASA 2013 Call for participation
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The 8th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and
Applications (WASA 2013)
August 7-10, 2013
Zhangjiajie, China
http://www.wasa2013.org
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We invite you to participate to the 8th International Conference on Wireless
Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2013), that will be held from
August 7-10, 2013 in Zhangjiajie, China. (http://www.wasa2013.org)
WASA is an international conference on algorithms, systems, and applications of
wireless networks. It is motivated by the recent advances in cutting-edge
electronic and computer technologies that have paved the way for the
proliferation of ubiquitous infrastructure and infrastructureless wireless
networks.
WASA is designed to be a forum for theoreticians, system and application
designers, protocol developers and practitioners to discuss and express their
views on the current trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art solutions related
to various issues in wireless networks. Topics of interests include, but not
limited to, effective and efficient state-of-the-art algorithm design and
analysis, reliable and secure system development and implementations,
experimental study and testbed validation, and new application exploration in
wireless networks.
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In addition to technical sessions, the conference will feature the following
keynote speeches and panel:
Keynote 1: How to Effectively Utilize the Harvested Resource in Cognitive Radio
Networks
Yuguang Michael Fang, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Florida
Abstract: Cognitive radios are designed to sense the unused spectrum and
opportunistically utilize such resource to support communications services
without affecting the services of the incumbent spectrum users. Unfortunately,
most research focuses on either cognitive radio design or spectrum sensing for
mostly one-hop communications, leading to schemes only of theoretical research.
In this talk, the speaker will present a novel network architecture which can
enable spectrum harvesting and more effective use of the harvested spectrum.
Besides, this network architecture can be used to identify the hidden network
capability and provides more effective service provisioning. Finally, when this
architecture is integrated with cellular systems, the non-cognitive cellular
devices can also take advantage of this architecture and the system capacity of
cellular systems can be enhanced.
Keynote 2: Mobile Cloud Computing: The Beginning of the End?
Baochun Li, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto
Abstract: Mobile cloud computing has received a substantial amount of academic
research attention and interests in the past three years, represented by not
only the number of papers published, but also by the advent of dedicated
workshops (such as the MCC workshops at SIGCOMM since last year). In essence,
mobile cloud computing is about remedying the limited resource availability on
mobile devices with the resource abundance in the cloud. Since the most
important resources on mobile devices are computing cycles and battery energy,
existing works in the literature are primarily concerned with offloading
computing cycles to the cloud, in order to improve performance of
computational-intensive applications, or to reduce energy consumption. Such
computational offloading is performed at the granularity of a method or a
thread in mobile applications, as represented by recent papers such as MAUI
(MobiSys 2010), CloneCloud (EuroSys 2011), and COMET (OSDI 2012).
However, it is unfortunate that every time computation is offloaded from a
mobile device to the cloud, we have to transmit the application states at
runtime over the network, with the potential risk of consuming even more energy
than performing the same computation locally on the mobile device. From this
perspective, such computational offloading only makes practical sense if the
performance gain is worth the energy cost of transmitting data over the
network. Since the questions of how and when computation should be offloaded
have been thoroughly answered by existing works in the literature, one would
naturally wonder (with a touch of pessimism) whether we have entered the
beginning of the end of research on mobile cloud computing.
In this talk, we advocate that mobile cloud computing should not be limited to
offloading computing cycles to the cloud, but should also be concerned with the
use of the cloud to assist interactive and delay-sensitive applications. As
two examples, we briefly introduce our recent work on streaming gestures among
users in gesture-intensive interactive applications, and on the use of
inter-datacenter networks in the cloud to improve the performance of
multi-party video conferencing. In fact, a recent public message from the
chief architect of Skype has explained how mobile devices have accelerated the
conversion of Skype from a peer-to-peer architecture to a cloud-assisted
design. Regardless of how practical computational offloading is, we believe
that mobile applications will forever be tightly integrated with the cloud,
which is what mobile cloud computing is all about.
Panel 1: Recent trends in the frontiers of wireless algorithms
Panelists: Junshan Zhang (Moderator), Yuguang Fang, Baochun Li, Nei Kato
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Conference Organizations:
General Co-Chairs:
Ming Xu (National University of Defense Technology, China)
Xiaohua Jia (HongKong City University, Hong Kong, China)
Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Xue Liu (McGill University, Canada)
Kui Ren (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
Weifa Liang (Australia National University, Australia)
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