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The 9th International Workshop on Resource Allocation, Cooperation and Competition in Wireless Networks

In conjunction with the 11th Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks WiOpt 2013
May 13-17, 2013, Tsukuba Science City, Japan
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Future telecommunications networks are expected to provide very high data rates, seamless connections, at higher and often heterogeneous quality-of-service levels, in scenarios with ever increasing mobility. In order to meet these requirements, new generation wireless networks go beyond the classical paradigms of cellular networks and are based on complex interactions. In this scenario, efficient allocation of the available resources and/or cooperation, and/or competition play a strategic fundament role to increase and optimize communication performance of individual nodes or of the global network, and efficiently exploit the available frequency spectrum eventually admitting unlicensed users. This fueled a vibrant flurry of studies in cooperative communications, spectrum management (cognitive radio), and resource allocation. The investigations involve researches and technicians from the physical, to the networking layers and above and eventually promote joint design within different layers (cross-layer design). Analysis and design of the complex interactions in future communications networks requires contributions from a variety of disciplines, which span from information theory to statistical physics, game theory, optimization, non-commutative algebras and so forth.
The workshop promotes the applications of new methodologies in this field with the aim of providing the participants advanced and innovative tools able to catch the fundamental dynamics of complex interactions. It fosters the presentation of new cooperative protocols and new schemes for resource allocation, novel results in the investigation of the theoretical limits and fundamental tradeoffs between competition and cooperation. The applications can steam from any wireless scenario, from multicell networks to sensor and relay networks, cognitive radio or ad hoc network. In fact, object of the workshop is to provide the participant with a comprehensive, thorough, and unified vision of the resource allocation issue in complex multiuser and multiprovider networks regulated by cooperation and competition.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Original contributions in resource allocation and cooperation for wireless networks are solicited in, but not limited to, the following directions:
" Data dissemination in large-scale wireless networks
" Energy management in wireless networks
" Wireless online social networks
" Economics-inspired resource management and mechanism design
" Cooperation schemes for resource management in wireless networks
" Distributed scheduling and resource allocation in large-scale wireless networks
" Physical layer/MAC layer cooperation in large-scale wireless networks
" Fairness vs performance trade-offs
" Diversity/multiplexing trade-offs of cooperation protocols
" Effects of partial and incomplete state information in cooperative systems, and robust designs
" Relay selection, cooperative group optimization and resource allocation
" Practical issues in cooperation strategies for mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks.

IMPORTANT DATES
" Abstract deadline: February 3rd, 2013
" Full paper due: January 20th, 2013
" Author notification: March 15th, 2013
" Camera ready due: April 1st, 2013
" Workshop: May 13th, 2013

AUTHORS INSTRUCTIONS
Papers must be submitted electronically. Each paper will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, and will be accepted based on its originality, significance and clarity. Please include 5-10 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic submission, please contact Issam MABROUKI (issam.mabrouki@gmail.com). Papers must not be published or under consideration to be published elsewhere.

PROCEEDINGS
The workshop proceedings will be listed in the IEEEXplore and the IEEE digital library.

PAPER SUBMISSION
The submission will be handled electronically via EDAS system (http://edas.info/N14041). Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages in length. Please use the IEEE conference format, 11 pt character size, one column text, one-and-a-half line spacing, letter paper. This page budget should contain all figures, tables, references, etc. The manuscript should also include a brief abstract of up to 150 words. Only PDF files are acceptable; please make sure that the paper prints without problems (take care to embed all required fonts, etc.).

WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
Workshop General Chairs
" Abdelfettah Belghith - University of Manouba, Tunisia
" Issam Mabrouki - University of Manouba, Tunisia
" Pingyi Fan - Tsinghua University, China

Publicity Chair
" Rafâa Tahar - University of Manouba, Tunisia

TPC members
" Abdelfettah Belghith - University of Manouba, Tunisia
" Adel Mnaouer - Dar Al Uloom University, KSA
" Ahmad Al Hanbali - University of Twente, The Netherlands
" Amine Dhraief - University of Manouba, Tunisia
" Anis Koubâa - Prince Sultan University, KSA
" Anthony Ephremides - University of Maryland, USA
" Ashraf Al Daoud - German-Jordanian University, Jordan.
" Bruno Tuffin - INRIA, France
" Chee Wei Tan - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
" Eleftherios Karipidis - Linköping University, Sweden
" Georgios Paschos - MIT, USA
" Issam Mabrouki - University of Manouba, Tunisia
" Juncheng Jia - Soochow University, China
" Khalil Drira - LAAS-CNRS, France
" Larca Pavel - University of Toronto, Canada
" Lucile Sassatelli - University Nice Sophia, France
" Marceau coupechoux - Telecom ParisTech, France
" Mohamed Amine Abid - University of Manouba, Tunisia
" Mohamed Siala - University of Carthage, Tunisia
" Mohamed Younis - University of Maryland, Tunisia
" Noureddine Hamdi - University of Manouba, USA
" Oussama Habachi - INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
" Patrick Maillé - Telecom Bretagne, France
" Peter M. van de Ven - IBM Watson Research Lab, USA
" Pingyi Fan - Tsinghua University, China
" Rachid Elazouzi - Berkeley, University of California, USA
" Randall Berry - Northwestern University, USA
" Sofiène Affes - INRS-EMT, Canada
" Subhrakanti Dey - University of Melbourne, Australia
" Vinod Sharma - Indian Institute of Science, India
" Walid Saad - University of Miami, USA
" Wuyi Yue - Konan University, Japan
" Xavier Lagrange - Telecom Bretagne, France

Workshop Web site: http://www.hanalab.org/RAWNET-WNC2013/