Scope

Wireless ad hoc, sensor, along with ubiquitous networks have recently witnessed their fastest growth period ever in history, and this trend is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. However, as such networks become increasingly complex, performance modelling and evaluation will play a crucial part in their design process to ensure their successful deployment and exploitation in practice.

This symposium will bring together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Predictive performance models of ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks.

Probabilistic models for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks.

Queuing and network information theoretic analysis

Analytical modeling and simulation methods

Automatic performance analysis

Tracing and trace analysis

Software tools for network performance and evaluation

Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools for ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks

Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks

Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning

Mobility modeling and management

Traffic models for ad hoc, sensor networks

Performance evaluation of wireless mesh networks

Performance evaluation of pervasive and ubiquitous networks

Performance evaluation of VANETs

Performance of wireless and sensor devices

Performance of spectrum agile and cognitive wireless sensor networks

Analysis of multimedia applications over wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks

Performance of pervasive computing and services

Analysis of mobile cloud networking and computing

Performance of continuity of service over heterogeneous networks, seamless connectivity

Analysis of security and privacy in ad hoc networks and ubiquitous networks

Simulation methods, performance and analysis

Real experimentation, deployments, open platforms