Program Committee
General Chair
Mohammad S. Obaidat
Monmouth Univ., NJ, USA
Program Chairs
Jose Marzo
Univ. of Girona, Spain
Helena Szczerbicka
Univ. of Hannover, Germany
Program Vice Chairs
Pawel Gburzynski
Univ. of Alberta, Canada
José Luis Sevillano
Univ. of Seville, Spain
Tutorials and Special Sessions Chair
S. Dharmaraja
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Awards Chair
Franco Davoli
Univ. of Genoa, Italy
Publicity Committee
Essia Elhafsi
Univ. of California-Riverside, USA (Chair)
Jong Hyuk Park
Kyungnam Univ., Korea
Farid Naït-Abdesselam
Univ. of Sciences & Technologies of Lille, France
Abdelmajid Khelil
Technical Univ. of Darmstadt, Germany
Local Arrangement Chair
Graham Shanks
Baesystems, UK
Webmasters
Antonio Bueno
Univ. of Girona, Spain
Michael J. Chinni
US Army TACOM-ARDEC
Publication Chair
Pere Vilà
Univ. of Girona, Spain
SPECTS 2008 - Special Sessions
Special Session 1: Bio-inspired Wireless Networks
Chairs
- Martin Drozda, FG Simulation und Modellierung, Computer Science Dept., Leibniz Univ. of Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Jonathan Timmis, Dept. of Computer Science and Dept. of Electronics, Univ. of York, Heslington, York, UK
Scope and topics
With the increasing complexity of wireless networks, the task of network management is becoming more and more difficult to handle. Wireless networks are becoming too complex for even the most skilled system integrators to install, configure, and maintain. Therefore it is desirable that they would be fully autonomic – able to manage themselves following high level objectives defined by network administrators. This goal implies a need for distributed computational environments that would function with often very limited resources such as bandwidth, energy, or processing capability of wireless devices.
Nature has demonstrated itself to be efficient in dealing with many of these limitations, often in a more efficient way than the human-designed counterparts. Therefore there has been significant interest in applying ideas based on natural systems in the wireless communications domain.
This special session aims at bringing together contributions that apply ideas inspired by natural systems to wireless networks. It will address leading edge research ranging from theory to experimental evaluation and tools. The topics include but are not limited to:
- Self-adaptive and self-tuning wireless networks. Autonomic networks.
- Learning algorithms inspired by neuro-physiology.
- Algorithms for securing wireless networks including approaches based on evolution or immunity.
- Network algorithms based on genetics.
- Network epidemics.
- Bio-inspired protocols design including bio-inspired routing or bio-inspired cognitive radio.
- Experimental case studies, test beds and tools.
The deadlines for paper submission and acceptance notification will follow the deadlines set by the SPECTS conference.