Track Co-Chairs

• Mohammad Hammoudeh, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Floriano De Rango, Universita della Calabria, Italy

Scope and Motivation

Research in Mobile Ad-hoc NETworks (MANET) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has witnessed a renewed interest with the ever-increasing investment in many applicative contexts such as smart cities, intelligent transport systems, ambient assisted living, Internet of Things and other wireless pervasive applications. The novel applications of these two technologies introduced new challenges that have not been addressed in the literature before, such as large-scale, long-range and low-power communication technologies, lightly protocols to support security and robustness. The new applications combined with the significantly improved hardware capabilities require the research community to revisit the specifications of the challenges addressed in this area of research and reassess the suitability and validity of the proposed solutions in the literature.

Main Topics of Interest

In this track, we solicit contributions from researchers and practitioners that focus on the practical implementation of MANET and WSN applications. We invite submissions of unpublished and original research in all aspects of WSN, ad-hoc networks and MANET technologies. Topics of interest includes, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Low-power routing protocols
• MAC protocols and scheduling mechanisms
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications and applications
• Adaptive radio resource management in wireless networks
• Autonomous optimisation techniques for QoS support
• Self-organization, management and network reconfiguration
• Security, privacy and trust
• Modelling, simulation, implementation, testbeds and prototypes MANET and WSN
• WSN for healthcare, ecology, emergency, military, agriculture, etc. applications
• Wireless mesh networks
• Vehicular ad-hoc networks
• Underwater and air sensor networks
• Flying ad-hoc networks (FANETs)
• Cognitive Ad Hoc Networks
• MANET with energy harvesting
• Green Network Techniques applied to MANET
• Transport protocol in WSN and MANET
• Cross layering techniques applied in MANET and WSN
• Multimedia in MANET and WSN