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Welcome to Autonomic Communication - a new communication paradigm for evolving Internet

The 2^nd IFIP TC6 International Workshop on Autonomic Communication (WAC 2005)
Oct. 3-5, 2005, Vouliagmeni, Athens, Greece

Monday Oct 3

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome:

Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece

Michael Smirnov, Fraunhofer-FOKUS, Germany

9:15 – 10:15

Keynote Talk : Paul Spirakis, University of Patras - Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece

“Algorithmic aspects of sensor networks”

10:35 – 12:15

Autonomic Session 1: ( Chair: Enrico Gregori, CNR-IIT, Italy)

• “Pocket Switched Networking: Chal­lenges, Feasibility, and Implementa­tion Issues”, Pan Hui, Cambridge University, Augustin Chaintreau, Intel Research, Richard Gass, Intel Research, James Scott, Intel Research, John Crowcroft, Cambridge University and Christophe Diot, Intel Research

• “Experiments on the Automatic Evo­lution of Protocols using Genetic Programming”, Lidia Yamamoto, Christian Tschudin, University of Basel, Switzerland

• “Service Evolution in Nomadic Wire­less Environment”, Iacopo Carreras, Francesco De Pellegrini, Daniele Miorandi, Hagen Woesner, CREATE-NET, Italy

• “User Cooperation and Search in Intelligent Networks”, Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, United Kingdom

2:00 – 3:00

Invited Talk: Cesar Santivanez, BBN Technologies, USA

“Opportunistic Spectrum Access for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: Research Challenges”

3:20 – 4:20

Autonomic Session 2: (Chair: Cesar Santivanez, BBN Technologies, USA)

• “Autonomic Wireless Network Management”, Kai Zimmermann, Sebastian Felis, Stefan Schmid, Lars Eggert and Marcus Brunner, NEC Europe, Germany
• “Context Driven Self-Configuration of Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks”
  Apostolos Malatras, George Pavlou, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
• “Autonomous Self-deployment of Wireless Access Networks in an Airport Environment”, Holger Claussen, Lucent Technologies, United Kingdom

4:20 – 5:45

Panel 1: Autonomicity vs. complexity

Panel Organizer / Moderator: Paul Spirakis (U. of Patras - Research Academic Computer Technology Institute)

Panellists: Radu Popescu-Zeletin (Fraunhofer-FOKUS)

Cesar Santivanez (BBN)

David Lewis (TC Dublin)

Tom Pfeifer (Waterford Institute of Technology)

Stefan Schmid (NEC)

Michael Smirnov (Fraunhofer-FOKUS)