• Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Routing, MAC, and Transport Issues, Nitin Vaidya (Texas A&M University, USA)

• Supporting Multimedia Services in UMTS Networks, Mooi Choo Chuah and On-Ching Yue (Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories, USA)

• Short-Range Ad Hoc Point-to-Point Wireless Communications: Standards from the Infrared Data Association (IrDA), Charles D. Knutson (Brigham Young University, USA)

• Security and Billing for Mobile Networks, Jean-Pierre Hubaux (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland)

• Mobile IPv6 for Cellular Telephony, Charles Perkins (Nokia Research Center, USA)

• Mobile Commerce: Applications, Technologies, Frameworks, and Emerging Issues, Upkar Varshney (Georgia State University)

• Energy Efficiency in Mobile Computing and Networking, Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

• Bluetooth: Technology, Applications, and Performance, Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) and Per Johansson (Ericsson Research, Sweden)

• Hosted at the Grand Hotel Parco dei Principi. Come enjoy refreshments, visit with old friends, and meet new ones.

• Welcome and opening remarks
• Awards presentation
• Keynote address: The Future Mobile Internet - A Network for all Generations, Krishan Sabnani (Research Vice President, Networking Research Laboratory, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA)

Session Chair: Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research, USA)

• The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Applications, Nissanka Priyantha, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, and Seth Teller (Massachusetts of Institute Technology, USA)
• Exploiting Location Information for Infostation-Based Hoarding, Uwe Kubach and Kurt Rothermel (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
• Locating Application Data Across Service Discovery Domains, Paul Castro, Benjamin Greenstein, and Richard Muntz (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Chatschik Bisdikian and Parviz Kermani (IBM); and Maria Papadopouli (Columbia University, USA)

Session Chair: Stefano Basagni (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

• Preemptive Routing in Ad Hoc Networks, Tom Goff (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (State University of New York, Binghamton, USA); Dhananjay Phatak (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); and Ridvan Kahvecioglu (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA)
• MERIT: A Unified Framework for Routing Protocol Assessment in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Andras Farago and Violet Syrotiuk (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
• Capacity of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Jinyang Li, Charles Blake, Douglas S. J. Decouto, Hu Imm Lee, and Robert Morris (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

• The Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing is given by ACM SIGMOBILE to recognize an individual who has made a significant and lasting contribution to the research on mobile communications and wireless networking. The contribution can be a single event or a lifetime of achievement.

Organizers: Christopher Rose (Rutgers University, USA) and David B. Johnson (Rice University, USA)

• This lively, exciting session will feature short presentations of cutting edge work in progress and great new ideas not yet ready for publication. Each selected presentation will be limited to 5 minutes, followed by a brief question period. Student submissions and presentations suggesting promising new ideas and approaches are particularly encouraged.

• At Palazzo Colonna, hosted by Alcatel, IBM, and Nortel Networks. Open to all student attendees.

• Classical music in one of the most impressive monuments in Rome, the Pantheon. Originally built in 27 B.C. as a temple dedicated to the planetary gods, its extraordinary dome is considered the most important achievement of the ancient Roman architecture.

Session Chair: Charles E. Perkins (Nokia Research Center, USA)

• Geography-informed Energy Conservation for Ad Hoc Routing, Ya Xu and John Heidemann (USC/Information Sciences Institute, USA); and Deborah Estrin (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• Span: An Energy-Efficient Coordination Algorithm for Topology Maintenance in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Benjie Chen, Kyle Jamieson, Hari Balakrishnan, and Robert Morris (Massachusetts of Institute Technology, USA)
• Online Power-aware Routing in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks, Qun Li, Javed Aslam, and Daniela Rus (Dartmouth College, USA)

Session Chair: TBD

• Making Computers Disappear: Appliance Data Services, Andrew Huang and Benjamin Ling (Stanford University, USA); John Barton (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA); and Armando Fox (Standford University, USA)
• m-Links: An Infrastructure for Very Small Internet Devices, Bill N. Schilit, Jonathan Trevor, and David M. Hilbert (Fuji-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory, USA); and Tzu Khiau Koh (Xerox Singapore Software Center, Singapore)
• Smart Kindergarten: Sensor-based Wireless Networks for Smart Developmental Problem-solving Environments (Challenge Paper), Mani Srivastava, Richard Muntz, and Miodrag Potkonjak (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Session Chair: Srini Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

• Exposure In Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks, Seapahn Meguerdichian (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Farinaz Koushanfar (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Gang Qu (University of Maryland, USA); and Miodrag Potkonjak (University of California, Los Angeles, USA): Best Student Paper Award
• Research Challenges in Wireless Networks of Biomedical Sensors, Loren Schwiebert (Wayne State University, USA); Sandeep Gupta (Arizona State University, USA); and Jennifer Weinmann (Wayne State University, USA)
• Dynamic Fine-Grained Localization in Ad-Hoc Networks of Sensors, Andreas Savvides, Chih-Chien Han, and Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

Session Chair: Jean-Pierre Hubaux (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne, Switzerland)

• Intercepting Mobile Communications: The Insecurity of 802.11, Nikita Borisov (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Ian Goldberg (Zero Knowledge Systems, Canada); and David Wagner (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• SPINS: Security Suite for Sensor Networks, Adrian Perrig, Robert Szewczyk, Victor Wen, David Culler, and J. D. Tygar (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

• Multimedia Mobile Communications: An Overview, Sergio Treves (Director of Strategy and Development, Alcatel Italy)

Session Chair: Krishna Sivalingam (Washington State University, USA)

• Distributed Multi-Hop Scheduling and Medium Access with Delay and Throughput Constraints, Vikram Kanodia, Chengzhi Li, Ashutosh Sabharwal, Bahareh Sadeghi, and Edward W. Knightly (Rice University, USA)
• A New Approach to Channel Access Scheduling for Ad Hoc Networks, Lichun Bao and J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
• A Transmission Control Scheme for Media Access in Sensor Networks, Alec Woo and David Culler (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• A Rate-Adaptive MAC Protocol For Wireless Networks, Gavin Holland and Nitin Vaidya (Texas A&M University, USA); and Paramvir Bahl (Microsoft Research, USA)

Session Chair: Ram Ramjee (Lucent Technologies, USA)

• 3G: Third Generation Gets Going - or Going, Going, Gone?

  Panel Members: Petri Mahonen (University of Oulu), Charlie Perkins (Nokia Labs), Andrew Campbell (Columbia University), Yabusaki Masami (DoCoMo Labs), Rajiv Laroia (Flarion)

• An open meeting to discuss issues relevant to ACM SIGMOBILE as a whole, such as conference activities, publications, budget, and membership. Anyone interested is welcome to attend.

• Enjoy the beauty of Italian early baroque in the halls of the Barberini Palace. A monumental 17th-century building, originally designed by Maderno as a country-house enriched of open perspectives and vast gardens, it is now part of the National Gallery of Antique Arts. In its rooms, whose ceilings are decorated by frescoes painted by Pietro da Cortona, famous masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance (Raffaello Sanzio, Caravaggio, Filippo Lippi) are exposed.

• Pervasive Computing in the Real World, Michael Karasick (CTO and Director of Architecture, IBM Pervasive Computing, Software Group)

Session Chair: Adam Wolisz (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

• Dynamic Voltage Scaling on a Low-Power Microprocessor, Johan Pouwelse, Koen Langendoen, and Henk Sips (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• Automatic Performance-Setting for Dynamic Voltage Scaling, Krisztian Flautner, Steve Reinhardt, and Trevor Mudge (University of Michigan, USA)
• Physical-Layer Driven Protocol and Algorithm Design for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks, Eugene Shih, Seong-Hwan Cho, Nathan Ickes, Rex Min, Amit Sinha, Alice Wang, and Anantha Chandrakasan (Massachusetts of Institute Technology, USA)

Session Chair: David B. Johnson (Rice University, USA)

• Wireless Killer Apps - Have Apps Killed the Mobile Internet?

  Panel Members: Michael Karasick (IBM), John SanGiovanni (Microsoft), Maurizio Montagna (Alcatel), Nigel Davies (University of Arizona)

Session Chair: Andrew Campbell (Columbia University, USA)

• TCP Westwood: End-to-End Bandwidth Estimation for Efficient Transport over Wired and Wireless Networks, Saverio Mascolo (Politecnico di Bari, Italy); Claudio Casetti (Politecnico di Torino, Italy); Mario Gerla (University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Medy Sanadidi and Ren Wang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• Mobile Network Estimation, Minkyong Kim and Brian Noble (University of Michigan, USA)
• Design and Analysis of a New Approach to Multiple Burst Admission Control for CDMA2000, Yu-Kwong Kwok and Vincent K. N. Lau (The University of Hong Kong, China)

Session Chairs: Adam Wolisz and Holger Karl (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

• Is There Ever Going to be a Commercial Market for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks?

  Panel Members: Hari Balakrishnan (MIT), Mario Gerla (UCLA), Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL Lousanne), David B. Johnson (Rice)

Session Chair: Sajal Das (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

• Mobile Connectivity Protocols and Throughput Measurements in the Ricochet MicroCellular Data Network (MCDN) System, Michael Ritter, Robert Friday, Rodrigo Garces, William San Filippo, Cuong-Thinh Nguyen, and Arty Srivastava (Metricom, Inc., USA)
• IP Paging Service for Mobile Hosts, Ramachandran Ramjee (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA); Li Li (Cornell University, USA); and Thomas La Porta and Sneha Kasera (Lucent Technologies, USA)
• A Cost-Efficient Signaling Protocol for Mobility Application Part (MAP) in IMT-2000 Systems, Wenye Wang and Ian Akyildiz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

• DIAL M for Mobility: The Fourth International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing and Communications

• MSWiM: The Third International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

• WoWMoM: The Third International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia

• WMI: The First ACM Workshop on Wireless Mobile Internet

• MCOMMERCE: Workshop on Mobile Commerce