Workshop on Applications of Ad Hoc Networks
 

To be held in conjunction with

2003 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2003)

Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC

October 6-9, 2003

Advances in wireless technology and portable computing along with demands for greater user mobility have provided a major impetus toward development of an emerging class of self-organizing, rapidly deployable network architectures referred to as ad-hoc networks. An ad hoc network is a collection of wireless mobile nodes dynamically forming a temporary network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized administration. Ad-hoc networks are expected to play an important role in future commercial and military settings where mobile access to a wired network is either ineffective or impossible. Potential applications for this class of network include instant network infrastructure to support collaborative computing in temporary or mobile environments, emergency rescue networks in disaster, remote control of electrical appliance, communication systems for ITS such as IVC (Inter-Vehicle Communications) and , and mobile access to the global Internet. Furthermore, ad-hoc networks have the potential to serve as a ubiquitous wireless infrastructure capable of interconnecting many thousands of devices with a wide range of capabilities and uses. In order to achieve this status, however, ad-hoc networks must evolve to support large numbers of heterogeneous systems with a wide range of application requirements.

This workshop will focus on fundamental challenges and issues in the fields of applications of ad-hoc networks. Our goal is to bring together leading researchers in this hot field of research in order to recognize wide range of applications of ad-hoc networks and the fundamental challenges and future prospects to achieve it. We believe that it is very important to capture the state of the art as well as the important trends of this new and exciting area.