2nd Workshop in Orlando 2012

N2 Women is pleased to announce the second Networking Networking Women Workshop co-located with IEEE Infocom. This workshop will bring the research and career interests of women in networking and communications to the forefront. The N2 Women workshop has the following goals:

Creating new research connections
Mentoring undergraduate, graduate, and post-doc students
Obtaining feedback on research from members of the community
The workshop will feature keynote talks from distinguished members of our community, panel sessions, mentoring sessions, and a poster session.

Program

8:15 – 8:30 Welcome
8:30 – 9:30 Keynote Talk #1
“Computing in Cirrus Clouds: The Challenge of Intermittent Connectivity”, Ellen Zegura (Professor and Chair of the School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology)
9:30 – 10:30 Panel #1: How to Succeed in Grad School without Really Trying
Moderated by Robin Kravets (UIUC)
Panelists: Cigdem Sengul (Deutsche Telekom AG), Wenye Wang (NC State U), Mingyan Liu (U Michigan), Leana Golubchik (USC)
10:30 – 11:30 Poster Session #1 and Morning Networking Break
11:30 – 12:30 Panel #2: Successful Promotion and Tenure
Moderated by Violet Syrotiuk (ASU)
Panelists: Elizabeth Belding (UCSB), Janice McNair (U Florida), Darleen Fisher (NSF), Geethapriya Thamilarasu (SUNYIT), Lakshmi Thanayankizil (GaTech)
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 Keynote Talk #2
“First finding nails then hammers”
Helen Wang (Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research)
3:00 – 4:00 Poster session #2 and Afternoon Networking Break
4:00 – 5:30 Mentoring Session

Important Deadlines

Call For Poster (February 6, 2012)
Call For Participation (March 18, 2012)
Student Travel Grants (January 19, 2012)

Call for Poster

Posters are solicited for research related to any aspect of networking and communications. All researchers in the networking and communications fields are welcome to submit their work for presentation at this workshop. Each poster abstract will be reviewed by members of the TPC. Posters will not be published and hence can be under submission for other conferences or workshops.

Submission Information

Each submission should be formatted as an extended abstract, describing the research to be presented in the poster. The length of the extended abstract should be at most TWO pages (formatted into the US letter size of 8.5 × 11 inches with fonts no smaller than 10 point size), including all figures and references. The extended abstract must include the names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors and should be submitted as a single PDF file to EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=n2women.

Accepted Posters

– Aarti Munjal, William Navidi, Tracy Camp, “Steady-State Analysis of The SLAW Mobility Model”
– Dora Spenza and Chiara Petrioli, “Pro-Energy, a novel energy prediction model for solar and wind energy harvesting WSNs”
– Begumhan Turgut and Richard P. Martin, “Indoor dynamic localization with particle filters”
– Lei Zhang, Yanyan Zhuang, Jianping Pan, Lovereen Kaur and Hongzi Zhu, “Multi-Modal Message Dissemination in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks”
– Shaila Pervin, Joarder Kamruzzaman and Dr. Gour Karmakar, “QoS Aware Query-Processing Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks”
– Xiaohui Wang, Eric Anderson, Fan Bai and Peter Steenkiste, “Flexible Network-Scale Emulation for Vehicular-to-Vehicular Wireless Channels”
– Farhana Ashraf, Yih-Chun Hu and Robin H. Kravets, “Bankrupting the Jammer”
– Van Nguyen and Mary Ann Ingram, “Cooperative Transmission Range Doubling with IEEE 802.15.4”
– Shuang Li, Zizhan Zheng, Eylem Ekici and Ness Shroff, “System Throughput Maximization by Cooperative Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks”
– Nathan Miller, Frewihot Robba, Graciela Perera and Jeremy Cummins, “Detecting Malicious Transmission using the NetFPGA Open Research Platform”
– Shehla Rana and Nitin Vaidya, “Watchdogs to the rescue: Securing Wireless TCP”
– Kerri Stone and Tracy Camp, “Network and Systems Support for Earthen Embankment Dam Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks”
– Ghazale Hosseinabadi and Nitin Vaidya, “Token-DCF: An Efficient MAC protocol for Wireless Networks”
– Shafaq Chaudhry and Ratan Guha, “Pareto-optimal Constrained Relay Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks”
– Guliz Tuncay, Sungwook Moon and Ahmed Helmy: Mobile Social Networking Testbed”
– Shanshan Wang, Sugumar Murugesan and Junshan Zhang: Opportunistic Spectrum Scheduling under TemporallyĘCorrelated Channel Fading and PU Occupancy”
– Dulanjalie C. Dhanapala and Anura P. Jayasumana, “Topology Preserving Maps From Virtual Coordinates for Wireless Sensor Networks”
– Rania El-Badry and Mohamed Younis, “Providing Location Anonymity in a Multi-Base station Wireless Sensor Network”
– Seok Bae Yun, Benafsh Husain and Richard Brooks, “Scalable Security Infrastructure for P2P File System”
– Katherine Cameron and Richard Brooks, “Effects of WiMAX Parameters on MAC-Level DoS Attacks”

Student Travel Grants

Travel funding details for the N2 Women workshop at Infocom conferences are described at here
Application deadline: January 19, 2012

Organization
Workshop Program Co-Chairs
Violet Syrotiuk (Arizona State University, USA)
Robin Kravets (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA)
Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida, USA)

Workshop Steering Committee:
Tracy Camp (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester, USA)

Technical Program Committee:
Regina B. Araujo (Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil)
Sujata Banerjee (HP Labs, USA)
Eleonora Borgia (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Soumaya Cherkaoui (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)
Melike Erol-Kantarci (U. of Ottawa, Canada)
Silvia Giordano (University of Applied Science (SUPSI), Switzerland)
Xin Huang (Deutsche Telekom R&D Lab, USA)
Katia Jaffres-Runser (University of Toulouse, France)
Sumita Mishra (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Jelena Misic (Ryerson University, Canada)
Cigdem Sengul (Deutsche-Telekom Labs, Germany)
Sponsors

Financial support from CRA-W, NSF, Microsoft Research, HP Labs, IEEE ComSoc, and ACM SIGMobile for the second N2Women Workshop is gratefully acknowledged.

Contacts

For more information, please contact the Workshop Chairs:

Violet Syrotiuk (Arizona State University, USA)
Robin Kravets (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign