From: krishna@kovai.eecs.wsu.edu (Krishna M. Sivalingam)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: Call for Participation - WOWMOM 98
Date: 17 Oct 1998 07:42:06 GMT
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Dear Colleague,

 Please find enclosed the Technical program of the ACM/IEEE WoWMoM'98
workshop to be held in conjunction with ACM Mobicom '98 in Dallas,
Texas. Please feel free to distribute this to other colleagues who
might be interested.

 If you are interested in the workshop and have NOT ALREADY registered
for it, we request that you register as soon as possible!

 Registration, hotel and relevant information are available at the
Mobicom web site (See URL below).

 Please accept our apologies if you receive this multiple times.

Sincerely,

Krishna Sivalingam
On Behalf of the WOWMOM TPC

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Call For Participation

The First ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Multimedia 
(WoWMoM'98), Friday, October 30, 1998, Dallas, Texas

Organizers: Sajal K. Das, University of North Texas, Denton
            Mehmet Unsoy, Nortel, Richardson, Texas

		      Sponsored by ACM Sigmobile

	      (in conjunction with ACM/IEEE MobiCom'98)

                                URLs:
		  http://www.cs.unt.edu/crew/wowmom/

  http://www.mobicom98.utdallas.edu/  (For Registration & Hotel Information)
	 Please Register ASAP, if you haven't already done so.

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ADVANCE PROGRAM SCHEDULE 

8:30 am  - Welcome Address
	   Sajal K. Das and Mehmet Unsoy, Program Co-Chairs) 

8:40 am  - Keynote Speaker: Dr. George Brody
		Title: TBA

9:40 am  - Session I: Wireless Multimedia Architectures/Networks 
	   Chair:  Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

         The Case for Services over Cascaded Networks
            A. D. Joseph, B. R. Badrinath, and R. Katz, Univ of
		California at Berkeley 
    
         An Architecture for QoS Guarantees and Routing in
		Wireless/Mobile Networks 
            I. Mahadevan and K. M. Sivalingam, Washington State Univ, Pullman
          
         Introducing Quality-of-Service and Traffic Classes into
		Wireless Mobile Networks 
            J. Sevanto, M. Liljeberg, and K. Raatikainen, Univ of
		Helsinki, Finland 


10:40 am - Coffee Break


11:00 am - Session II: Systems Issues in Wireless/Mobile Networks
	   Chair: Lorenzo Donatiello, Univ of Bologna

         Active Basetations and Nodes for a Mobile Environment
            A. Boulis, P. Lettieri, and M. B. Srivastava, Univ of
		California, Los Angeles 

         Investigation of a Prefetch Model for Low Bandwidth Networks
            N. J. Tuah, M.. Kumar, and S. Venkatesh, Curtin Univ of
		Technology, Perth, Australia 

         Agent Technology for the UMTS VHE Concept
            J. Hartmann, C. Gorg, and P. Farjami, Ericsson Eurolab
		Deutschkand and RWTH Aachen, Germany 

12:00 pm - Luncheon (to be provided)
	Speaker: Doug Bedell, Personal Technology, Dallas Morning News
         "Couch Potato Visions of Wireless"


1:00 pm  - Session III: Wireless Multimedia Protocols
           Chair: Prathima Agrawal, Bellcore

          Design and Performance Evaluation of a Distributed
		Contention Control (DCC) Mechanism for IEEE 802.11
		Wireless Local Area Networks 
             L. Bononi, M. Conti, and L. Donatiello, Univ of Bologna, Italy

          Protocol Enhancements in Wireless Multimedia and
		Multiple-Access Networks 
             A. G. Daraiseh, Nortel, Richardson 

          Performance Evaluation of ABR Flow-Control Protocols in a
		Wireless ATM Network 
             U. R. Krieger and M. Savoric, Deutsche Telekom and Goethe
		Univ, Germany 

          Provision of Real-Time Services Over ATM Using AAL Type 2
             G. Mercankosk, J. F. Siliquini, and Z. L. Budrikis,
		Australian Telecom Research Institute, Perth
                                                                               

2:20 pm - Session IV: QoS Provisioning in Wireless Networks
	  Chair: Andrea Fumagalli, University of Texas at Dallas

          A Systems Approach to Prediction, Compensation and
		Adaptation in Wireless Networks 
             J. Gomez, A. T.. Campbell, and H. Morikawa, Columbia Univ
		and Univ of Tokyo 

          A Framework for Call Admission Control in Next Generation
		Wireless Networks 
             N. K. Kakani, S. K. Das, S. K. Sen, and M. Kaippalimalil, Univ
		of North Texas (Denton), Nortel and Tandem

          Call Admission Control for Adaptive Multimedia in
		Wireless/Mobile Networks 
             T. Kwon, Y. Choi, C. Bisdikian, and M. Nagsineh, Seoul
		National Univ (Korea) and IBM Watson

3:20 pm  - Coffee Break

3:40 pm  - Panel Discussions: Wireless Multimedia Services
           (Moderator: Kalyan Basu, Director, Nortel Wireless Networks)

	Panelists: 

                   Andrew Campbell (Columbia Univ)
                   Don Hoffman     (Teledesic)
                   Udo Krieger     (Deutsche Telekom)
                   Gerry Thompson  (Bell Mobility)
                   Mehmet Unsoy    (Nortel)

5:00 pm  - Closing Remarks

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