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