WAWC 2008

Call for Papers

6th Workshop on Applications of Wireless Communications (WAWC'08), August 20-21, 2008 - Lappeenranta, Finland

in co-operation with ESF MiNEMA programme,

in conjunction with the 17th Summer School on Telecommunications at the Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Important dates

Abstract submission deadline: January 20, 2008 Paper submission deadline: February 11, 2008 Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2008 Revised papers due: May 1, 2008

Overview

The research related to wireless communication and its use, concentrates on providing tools for application developers to create new and better applications and services e.g. a better way to handle connection forming, a new way to manage personal information or a new approach to model context information. There is less emphasis on the actual applications that use these new methods i.e. applications that benefit from context-awareness, use the new communication model, adapts to each person individually. WAWC'08 concentrates on such applications and services. The major emphasis of the workshop this year is security of wireless applications. What are the real security threats towards wireless services? Do the existing research results provide feasible solutions to these threats? �? WAWC'08 is a workshop featuring invited presentations, refereed paper presentations, student work presentations and a panel discussion. WAWC'08 will be held in conjunction with the 17th Summer School on Telecommunications that concentrates on various issues of the Wireless World. The Summer School program also includes a 24h programming event, Code Camp. Participants of WAWC'08 are welcomed to join also in Summer School events.

Scope/Topics

Papers about security in applications and services using wireless communication should concentrate at one of the following topics.

* Authentication * Privacy threats and protection * Trust * Automation and Simplicity * Lightweight cryptography * Availability * Threat analysis * Middleware * Seamless connectivity * User-Centric security * Feasible security solution * Security Management * Ambient Intelligence * Pervasive/Ubiquitous Communications * Wireless sensors security * BAN/PAN/LAN * Touch zone security * Payment systems Please feel free to contact the program chair at WAWC@lut.fi to determine the appropriateness of the topic of your paper.

What to submit

Abstract submission: Abstract should be maximum of one page long describing the main idea of the paper. The abstract submission is used as a prefiltering method to quarantee that the reviewers will get only papers suitable for the workshop.

Paper submission: The original submission should be maximum of 7 single-spaced A4 pages, including figures, tables and references using point 12 font. Details of the paper format can be found on the workshop website.

A good paper demonstrates that:

* Application area presented is or will be of greater interest of       majority * Wireless communication has a significant role in the solution * The realization of the security solution presents a new way of       doing things

WAWC'08 among most conferences and journals requires that papers must be original and published only in this conference. Proceedings will be published in the Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis series of Lappeenranta University of Technology.

All selected papers must be paid in advance and presented in the conference.

How to submit

All submissions for WAWC'08 will be electronic, in PDF format. Please, submit papers through the paper submission system at the workshop website. Authors will be notified of the receipt of submission via email. If you do not receive notification, contact WAWC@lut.fi.

Review process

All the papers will be reviewed by at least three members of program committee.

Registration

Complete program and registration information will be available in May 2008 on the Workshop Web site http://www.it.lut.fi/WAWC. The information will be in both html and a printable PDF file formats.

Questions

Inquiries concerning the workshop to WAWC@lut.fi.

Organized by the Laboratory of Communications Engineering Lappeenranta University of Technology. This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP