** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message ** ============================================================ The 14th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2016) November 13 - 17, 2016 - Malta http://mobiwac-symposium.org/ ============================================================ The 14th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2016) will be held in conjunction with MSWiM 2016 (the 19th ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems) from November 13 to 17, 2016 in Malta. The MOBIWAC series of events are intended to provide an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access protocols. To keep up with the technological developments, we also open up new areas such as mobile cloud computing starting from this year. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance on all aspects of wireless and mobile access technologies, with an emphasis on mobility management and wireless access. Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research. Submitted papers must neither have been published elsewhere nor currently be under review by another conference or journal. TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: - Mobile Cloud Computing - Wireless/Mobile Access Protocols - Wireless/Mobile Web Access - Wireless Internet and All-IP integration - Next Generation Wireless systems - Mobile Broadband Wireless Access - Pervasive Communication and Computing - Ubiquitous and mobile access - Wireless Applications and testbeds - Multi-Homing and Vertical Handoff - Multi-Channel Multi-Radio MAC / network layer management - Channels and resource allocation algorithms - Energy and power management algorithms - Mobility Models - Multi-technology switching using Software Defined Radios - Context-aware services and applications - Context-aware protocols and protocol architectures - Interactive applications - Mobile database management - Wireless Multimedia Protocols - Mobile and Wireless Entertainment - Mobile Info-services - Social mobile networks - Social mobile applications - Data analysis for mobile and wireless networks - SDN solutions in mobile and wireless networks - QoS management - Mobility Control and Management - Localization and tracking - Mobile/Vehicular environment access - Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks - Security,Trust management and Privacy issues - Fault Tolerance solutions - Wireless Systems' Design - Analysis/Simulation of wireless mobile systems - Testbeds for experimental and simulation analysis ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair Ángel Cuevas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Program Chairs Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Robson De Grande, University of Ottawa, Canada Technical Program Committee Antonio A.F. Loureiro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Michele Albano, CISTER, Portugal Chadi Assi, Concordia University, Canada Jalel Ben-othman, University of Paris 13, France Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Juan Carlos Cano, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Yuh-Shyan Chen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa, Italy Danny De Vleeschauwer, Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium Andrés García Saavedra, Hamilton Institute, Ireland Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada Roberto González, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Khaled Harras, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Charalampos Konstantopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece Pierre Leone, University of Geneva, Switzerland Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Grammati Pantziou, Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece Cristina M. Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy Paulo Pinto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Victor Ramos, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico Victor Rangel, National University of Mexico, Mexico Thierry Turletti, INRIA, France Alicia Triviño, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Manuel Urueña, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Emmanouel Varvarigos, University of Patras & Computer Technology Institute, Greece Zainab Zaidi, National ICT Australia, Ltd, Australia Posters/Demo Chair Graciela Román Alonso, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Publicity Chairs Khalil El-Khatib, UOIT, Canada Mirela. A. M. Notare, Sao Jose Municipal University, Brazil ========================= Paper Submission, Publication, and Important Dates: High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the Symposium. The symposium will have a single track for regular papers and in addition, a separate interwoven track with short papers / posters. Paper length must be no more than 10 pages, double column, ACM style including tables and figures. Note that the regular paper size will be 8 pages, with the possibility to obtain up to 2 additional pages (total 10 pages) by paying a publication fee. Only PDF format is accepted. All accepted papers will appear in the Symposium proceedings published by ACM press. - Paper registration due: June 30, 2016 (11:59PM EST) - Submission Deadline: June 30, 2016 (11:59PM EST) - Notification of Acceptance: July 31, 2016 (11:59PM EST) Papers are submitted via the EDAS system ( https://edas.info/N22672 ). For any question or problems related to MobiWac 2015 submissions, please contact the PC Chairs. FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing committee, submission instructions, and venue please see the conference website ( http://mobiwac-symposium.org )