(DBWORLD) CFP: WOSBIS'97

Yongguang Zhang (ygz@isl.hrl.hac.com)
Tue, 20 May 1997 20:16:01 -0500 (CDT)

2nd Int'l Workshop on Satellite-based Information Services
(WOSBIS'97)

CALL FOR PAPERS

October 1, 1997, Budapest, Hungary
(In connection with ACM MobiCom'97)

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Sponsored by ACM Sigmobile (pending) and NASA Lewis Research Center

Satellite communications will play an increasingly important role in our
future information-based society. This trend is evidenced by the large
number of systems planned or in operation (e.g. GPS, ACTS, DirecTV(TM),
Iridium, DirecPC, SpaceWay, Teledesic).

As its popular predecessor held in conjunction with MobiCom'96, the
objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for exploratory research
contributions on satellite applications and services. The services are
characterized by direct or global broadcast capabilities of LEO, MEO, GEO
satellites, low setup costs, high and possibly asymmetric bandwidth, and
unconventional network routing. Applications of such services are often
real-time, mobile, high bandwidth, and they include telemedicine, public
information services, education, entertainment, Internet access, digital
battlefield, emergency and disaster response.

Topics of contributed papers will include, but are not limited to:

* Applications using satellite services
* Software and architectures for integration with terrestrial networks
* Data management and file systems in satellite applications
* Distributed computing using satellite communication
* Software techniques for reducing latency in satellite applications
* Satellite network protocols and routing
* ATM over satellites and quality of services
* TCP/IP for satellite communications
* Internet applications, WWW access and cache through satellites
* Direct broadcast and multicast applications
* Asymmetric communication services
* Security issues in satellite communications and applications
* Reliability and scalability in satellite applications
* Software for satellite switch control
* Mobile computing and location tracking in satellite applications
* Inter-satellite communication and network management
* Mobile satellite services
* Middleware for satellite-based information services development

The setting of the workshop will be informal, and will encourage discussion
and interaction. We solicit the submission of research papers, position
papers, experience papers, and panel proposals.

SUBMISSIONS

We invite papers for presentation and discussion at the workshop. Send a
postscript copy of the paper by email to the address below. The page
limit on all submissions is 5-10 pages, double spaced, 10 pt minimum
(approximately 1500-2500 words).

Yongguang Zhang
Hughes Research Labs, RL-96
Malibu, CA 90265
E-mail: ygz@isl.hrl.hac.com

PROCEEDINGS:

An informal proceedings will be published and distributed at the workshop.
The format will be similiar to standard ACM proceedings: double column,
single spaced and the page limit on each paper is 12.

Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to submit their final papers
in HTML (in addition to Postscript). The HTML versions can be slightly
different than the Postscript versions to add hyperlinks to relevant work,
such as to executable demos available at their own sites. An electronic
proceeding linking together the HTML versions will be made available to
major Web search engines and mirrored at the sites of the organizers.

IMPORTANT DATES:

* Papers Due: July 3, 1997
* Acceptance Notification: Aug. 8, 1997
* Final papers due: Sep. 5, 1997
* Workshop: Oct. 1, 1997

WEB SITE:
http://www.wins.hrl.com/conferences/WOSBIS97/

CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Son K. Dao, Hughes Research Labs.
Ouri Wolfson, EECS Dept, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
John S. Baras, University of Maryland
Gary Minden, Univ. of Kansas.
Yongguang Zhang, Hughes Research Labs.

PUBLICITY:
Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France
Nghia Pham, Eutelsat

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Rafael Alonso, David Sarnoff Research Center
John Baras, Univ. of Maryland
Kul Bhasin, NASA Lewis Research Center
Tzi-cker Chiueh, SUNY, Stony Brook
Imrich Chlamtac, Boston Univ.
Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France
Son Dao, Hughes Research Labs.
Raj Jain, Ohio State Univ.
Randy Katz, UC Berkeley
Henry Korth, Bell Labs
Gary Minden, Univ. of Kansas
Shawn Ostermann, Ohio Univ.
Csaba Szabo, Technical University of Budapest
Ouri Wolfson, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Yechiam Yemini, Columbia Univ.
Yongguang Zhang, Hughes Research Labs.

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