Physics-Inspired Paradigms in

Wireless Communications and Networks

April 4th, 2008, Berlin, Germany

 

 

 

Sponsored by:


 
In Conjunction with WiOpt'08

Welcome to PHYSCOMNET'08

The growing complexity of current and future wireless networks has created the need for more creative methods to analyze, model and understand them. This will hopefully lead to new ideas to describe the emergent behavior arising in large-scale, massively-distributed and highly-interacting networks of heterogeneous wireless devices. Recently, there have been several fruitful insights and approaches inspired from the realm of the physical and mathematical sciences, including statistical mechanics, electrostatics, game theory and biology, in which intuition and analogies to paradigms from other fields have been exploited.

This workshop aims to bring together active researchers with different backgrounds interested in understanding and modeling the basic features of large-scale networks and wireless systems.

Specific topics of interest

This workshop seeks original work within the fields described by (but not limited to) the bullets below:

  • Applications of Statistical Mechanics to Wireless and other Networks
  • Applications of Random Matrix Theory in Communications Systems
  • Social Aspects to Game Theory Applied to Networks
  • Biologically and  Sociologically Inspired  Approaches to Model Networks
  • Applications of Electrostatics, Optics and Magnetostatics in Optimization of Information Flow in Networks
  • Entropy methods
Important Dates

This workshop seeks original work within the fields described by (but not limited to) the bullets below:

  • Paper Submission Deadline: December 7, 2007 (Final)
  • Notification of Acceptance: January 21, 2008
  • Camera-ready papers due: February 21, 2008.
  • Early registration deadline: Mar 01, 2008, 23:59 GMT
     
Submission guidelines -Registration

Final, camera ready versions of accepted as well as invited papers have to be uploaded by February 21, 2008 into the ICST CMC system at http://www.icst.org/cmc, not in COCUS or Easychair. By now, the authors should have received access information to the website. More details can be found in the Author's Kit. If there are any problems please contact the workshop chairs. Contributed and invited paper authors have to register at http://www.wiopt.org/registration. More information about accommodation, conference venue etc can be found in the main WiOpt website.




 

Workshop chairs:

Aris Moustakas (Physics Dept,  Univ. of Athens, Greece)
 Ralf Müller (Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology)

 

Technical program committee:

Eitan Altman  (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France)

Albert L. Barabasi (Physics Dept, Notre Dame Univ, USA) John Baras (ECE Dept., University of Maryland, USA)

João Barros (CS Dept., University of Porto, Portugal)

Damien Challet (Instit. Scientific Interchange, Turin, Italy)

Costas Constantinou (EE Dept. Univ. of Birmingham, UK)

Merouane Debbah (Supélec, Paris, France)

Dongning Guo (Northwestern University, USA)

Matteo Marsili (Abdus Salam Center for Theor. Phys., Italy)

Sayandev Mukherjee (Marvell Semiconductor, USA)

Maya Paczuski (Physics Dept., Calgary, Canada and Santa Fe Institute, USA)

Sharad Ramanathan (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent and Biology Dept., Harvard, USA)

David Saad (Neural Computing Research Group, Aston University, UK)

Paolo Santi (Institute of Informatics and Telematics, CNR, Pisa, Italy)

Steven H. Simon  (Bell Labs, Lucent-Alcatel,USA)

Antonia Tulino (Dept. of EE & Telecoms., Napoli Univ. Federico II, Italy)