Symposium on Autonomous Configurability and Control in Dynamic Wireless Networks

Introduction

This symposium explores ways that dynamic network systems can self-organize by changing their fundamental structure, through hardware and software techniques, and in response to degradation and/or the absence or loss of functionality or connectivity. Recent advances in network topology control and management suggest that this can be achieved by: 1) dynamically and autonomously (re)configuring physical links (requiring pointing, acquisition, and tracking of high capacity directional links); 2) providing real-time, autonomous topological reconfiguration of a wireless internet backbone (graph); and 3) controlling backbone or node mobility. Mobility control has as its purpose: 1) assuring and maintaining their connectivity; and 2) the initial (bootstrapping) and subsequent placement of nodes in order to optimize coverage for a set of hosts, sensors or application devices.

Such systems focus on assuring and maintaining a network backbone, based on autonomous principles, and they resemble robust, long term wireless internet base stations or cellular telephony backbones. Topology management and stability can involve routing but includes the capability to physically and logically (re)organize. Finally, autonomously (re) configurable systems should provide almost instant re-establishment of connectivity and/or function with minimal overall system performance degradation.

Paper Submission

Paper submissions are open here.

Chair:

• Stuart Milner (University of Maryland, USA)
• Sylvie Perreau (University of South Australia)

Program Comittee:

• M. Palaniswami (University of Melbourne, Australia)
• Anurag Dwivedi (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, USA)
• Christopher C. Davis (University of Maryland, USA)
• Michael Casey (George Mason University, USA)
• Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Jean Carles(Universit‚ des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France)
• Fabrice Valois (INSA Lyons, France)
• Mehdi Kalantari Khandani (University of Maryland, USA)
• Zygmunt Haas (Cornell University, USA)