Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Seventh WIRELESS DAYS CONFERENCE Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 12 - 14, 2014 http://www.wireless-days.org/ Conference chairs: Luís Henrique M. K. Costa and Miguel Elias M. Campista Program co-chairs: Artur Ziviani, Cigdem Sengul, and José Marcos Nogueira Wireless Days is a major international conference which aims at bringing together researchers, technologists and visionaries from academia, research labs and industry, engineers and students to exchange, discuss and share their experiences, ideas and research about theoretical and practical aspects of wireless networking. The conference will include presentations of theoretical and experimental achievements, innovative wireless systems, prototyping efforts, case studies and advances in technology related to wireless networking and communications infrastructures. Wireless Days program will include the following six conference tracks: Track 1: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Track 2: Wireless Network Protocols and Applications Track 3: Vehicular and Delay Tolerant Networks Track 4: Broadband Wireless Track 5: Wireless Models and Simulations Track 6: Wireless and Mobile Network Management Program co-chairs: Anelise Munaretto Thierry Gayraud Program co-chairs: Mauro Fonseca Ted (Taekyoung) Kwon Program co-chairs: Giovanni Pau Michele Nogueira Program co-chairs: Edmundo Monteiro Merouane Debbah Program co-chairs: Igor Monteiro Moraes Manuel P. Ricardo Program co-chairs: Edmundo Madeira Fabrizio Granelli ! Unicast and multicast routing ! MAC protocols and scheduling ! Machine to Machine (M2M) communications, networking and applications ! Radio resource management in wireless networks ! Protocols and mechanisms for QoS support ! Self-organization and network reconfiguration ! Security, privacy and trust ! Energy-efficient communications ! Modeling and algorithmic challenges in wireless networks ! WSN for health/ecology/emergency ! Wireless mesh networks ! Vehicular ad-hoc networks ! Underwater sensor networks ! Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes ! Wireless multimedia networking issues ! Wireless multimedia broadcast/multicast ! Emerging wireless protocols and applications ! Multimedia coding and compression ! Portable multimedia device applications ! Real time streaming ! QoS middleware ! Network virtualisation ! Networked appliances and distributed multimedia services ! Application Quality-of-Service and Quality of Experience in wireless networks ! Protocol optimization in wireless networks ! Multimedia wireless networking protocols ! Performance measurement in wireless multimedia networks ! Cross-layer design for multimedia applications ! … ! Challenges of V2V, V2I, and I2V wireless communication ! Vehicular ad hoc networks ! Vehicular and delay tolerant applications ! Vehicular network architecture and protocols ! Vehicular network performance modeling and analysis ! Vehicular network medium access control and routing protocols ! Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks ! Delay-tolerant transport protocols ! Mobility/disruption-aware routing protocols ! Reliability and fault tolerance ! Energy, processing power and storage requirements for vehicular and delay tolerant networks ! Localization and location management ! Security and privacy ! Reputation systems and incentives for cooperation in Electric vehicles (EVs) and the smart grid ! … ! Broadband wireless technologies: HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN ! Machine to Machine (M2M) communications, networking and applications ! Broadband wireless network services and applications ! Service-oriented wireless mesh network architecture ! Radio resource management ! Scheduling and queuing ! Quality of Service (QoS) ! Capacity planning and dimensioning ! New network architectures and operation ! Cross-layer modeling and design ! Cross-layer approaches for service- oriented broadband wireless networks ! QoS provisioning through interconnected wired and wireless segments ! Routing for service-oriented wireless networks ! Heterogeneity and diversity ! … ! Modeling, simulations and performance analysis ! Optimization of network design ! Energy efficiency ! Simulation languages and tools for wireless systems ! Wireless measurements tools and experiences ! Formal methods for the analysis of wireless systems ! Correctness, survivability and reliability evaluation ! Mobility modeling and management ! Models and protocols for cognitive radio networks ! Capacity, coverage and connectivity modeling and analysis ! Pervasive computing and emerging models ! Mobile applications, system software and algorithms ! RF channel modeling and analysis ! Design methodologies ! Analytical models ! … ! Network management solutions for dedicated wireless technologies (Ad hoc networks, mobile networks, Personal Area Networks, Wireless LANs, Sensor networks, Broadband access networks, Wireless home networks) ! Mobile multimedia service management ! Mobile data service management ! Virtualized infrastructure management ! Fault management in mobile and wireless networks ! Configuration management in mobile and wireless networks ! Accounting management in mobile and wireless networks ! Performance management in mobile and wireless networks ! Security management in mobile and wireless networks ! Event management in mobile and wireless networks ! … IMPORTANT DATES : Submission deadline: June 06, 2014 Notification of acceptance: Sep 12, 2014 Camera-ready version: Sep 22, 2014