INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to MESH 2012. The submission deadline is set to April 16, 2012. In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== MESH 2012 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS MESH 2012: The Fifth International Conference on Advances in Mesh Networks August 19-24, 2012 - Rome, Italy General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/MESH12.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPMESH12.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitMESH12.html Submission deadline: April 16, 2012 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html MESH 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Architectures and algorithms Frameworks; Wireless interference models; Topology models; Large-scale networks; Real-time and non-real-time communications; Channel assignment schemes; Resource allocation; Centralized and distributed scheduling; Performance; Static/mobile scenarios; Access control; Service differentiation; Security, Privacy, and Trust Protocols Protocol interference models; Access and routing protocols; Single-channel multihop / multi-channel routing; Joint routing and scheduling; Routing metrics; Multichannel routing; Quality of Services routing; Multimedia-centric routing; Fast-link quality metrics; Bandwidth estimation; Cross-layer multicast routing; QoS-based access protocols for mesh networks; Multi-channel access protocols Applications Multimedia services; Home IPTV; WiMax; Broadband home networking communications; Emergency/disaster; Telemedicine and e-health; Smart buildings; Broadband Internet access ==================== ------------------------------ IARIA Publicity Board