The First International
Workshop on Network Mobility (WONEMO)

January 19 2006, Sendai, Japan
http://www.icoin.org/wonemo

(in conjunction with ICOIN, January 16-19 2006, Sendai, Japan)

All deadlines are 23:59:59 GMT. These are *firm* deadlines.

Research in NEtwork MObility (NEMO) support mechanisms has been performed for some years. The purpose of network mobility support is to manage the change of the point of attachment of the mobile router connecting an entire network to the Internet topology. This would allow such a network, known as a "mobile network" (or a NEMO), to migrate in the IP topology. With such an approach to mobility management, anything could potentially be connected to the Internet, particularly PANs (Personal Area Networks, i.e. small networks attached to people and composed of Internet appliances like PDAs, mobile phones, digital cameras, etc.), networks of sensors deployed in vehicles (aircrafts, boats, buses, trains), and access networks deployed in public transportation (taxis, trains, aircrafts, trucks and personal cars) to provide Internet access to devices carried by their passengers (laptop, camera, mobile phone, and even PANs, therefore exhibiting what is referred to as a nested NEMO).

The solution NEMO Basic Support (RFC 3963) specified for IPv6 by the IETF in the NEMO Working Group brings an answer to immediate needs, i.e. maintaining existing connections open, while optmization issues are left for later once research in this topic has reached maturity.

The complexity of the configurations enabled by network mobility (nested mobility, multihomed NEMO, split NEMO) causes new issues, particularly on the routing optimization side. It does also challenge existing mechanisms for security, access control, multicast and quality of service applied to network mobility.

The goal of the WONEMO workshop is to gather researchers in network mobility, to share the experience in implementations, experimentations, and to explore the deployment, usages, and research issues of NEMO-like networks.

The workshop strongly encourages the submission of papers that challenge the research community with revolutionary new approaches, technologies, or usages in the field of NEMO. These "challenge papers" should provide stimulating ideas or visions that may open up exciting avenues of far-reaching future research. Descriptions of new products or simple evolution of existing work are not appropriate. We solicit full-length papers presenting original and unpublished work including, but not limited to the following topics:

• Routing optimization in nested and non-nested NEMO
• NEMO multihomed issues (multiple MRs, multiple prefixes,multiple interfaces)
• Performances issues
• Security and Access control mechanisms for nested and non-nested NEMO
• Applications and usages of NEMO Basic Support
• Auto-configuration for NEMO
• Interaction between NEMO and ad-hoc networks
• Simulation of network mobility (protocols and usages)
• Description of actual implementations/experimentations of NEMO
• Multicast in nested and non-nested NEMO
• Simulation models and tools for network mobility

Papers should not exceed 8 pages.

The submission process is to be defined, please check http://www.icoin.org/wonemo/submission.html for up-to-date information.

Prof. Jun Murai, Chair of the WIDE Project, Vice President of Keio University, Japan

Dr. Ryuji Wakikawa, Keio University, Japan

Dr. Thierry Ernst, Keio University, Japan

• Prof. Yang Hee Choi (Seoul National University, South Korea)

• Dr. Gabriel Montenegro (Microsoft, USA)

• Dr. Thomas Noel (ULP Strasbourg, France)

• Prof. Fumio Teraoka (Keio University, Japan)

• Prof. Chung-Ming Huang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

• Vijay Devarapalli (Nokia, USA)

• Takashi Aramaki (Panasonic, Japan)

(More to be confirmed)