[Tccc] WASA 2013 - Call For Participation

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Sun Jun 30 22:22:18 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 and panels, the conference will feature the 
following keynote speeches:


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.

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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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