The 5th International Workshop on

Performance Modelling and Analysis of Communication in

Wired and Wireless Networks

(PMAC-2WN’09)

To be held in conjunction with

The 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'2009)

Sponsored by

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)

Shenzhen, China
8-11 December, 2009

	Workshop Scope
	Important Dates
	Submissions
	Program Committee
	Workshop Chairs

Workshop Scope

Performance modelling and evaluation of communication systems implemented in parallel, distributed, and grid computing systems have been an important and fundamental research topic over the past years and poses challenging problems that require innovative tools and techniques to keep up with the rapid evolution and increasing complexity of such systems.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to present their state-of-art and in-progress research on performance modelling and evaluation studies in all aspects of wired and wireless networking, parallel, distributed, and grid systems and to exchange ideas and explore new avenues of collaborations. Papers accepted for PMAC-2WN 2009 workshop will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and distributed to the participants on USB drives only. All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Analytical and numerical modelling, Queuing system and network models
Performance evaluation of communication in large-scale parallel, distributed, and grid systems
Predictive performance models of communication
Open wired and wireless architectures
Novel algorithms/protocols/mechanisms for communication
Routing algorithms design and performance
Performance measurement and monitoring tools
Quality of Service provisioning in wired and wireless networks
Tracing and trace analysis
Simulation techniques
Analytical modelling
Performance evaluation techniques
Workload characterization and traffic modelling of communication
Group/Collective communication performance in wired or wireless networks
Communication performance in peer-to-peer networks
Communication in mobile wireless ad hoc networks
Performance improvement of communication through optimization and tuning
Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of communication protocols in wired/wireless networks.

Important Dates

Paper Submission:	~~June 15, 2009~~ June 30, 2009
Notification:	August 30, 2009
Final Manuscript:	September 15, 2009

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submitted papers should be formatted in a two-column IEEE Computer Society format (URL: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm) and should not exceed 8 pages including figures and references. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format (or postscript) by sending it as an e-mail attachment to a.shahrabi@gcal.ac.uk or i.u.awan@bradford.ac.uk. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors.