EXPLORATORY WORKSHOP
Is Mobile Ad hoc Networking part of the future of mobile networking in Europe?

Hotel Cinque Terre - Monterosso al Mare - La Spezia (Italy)
10/12 October 2002

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10 October 2002

15.00 – 15.30 Registration and Welcome

15.30 – 16.00 Session 1: Standardization of Ad Hoc Networking

L. Feeney, Progress report on the IETF MANET Working Group, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden

16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break

16.30 - 18.00 Session 2 : Technologies for Ad Hoc Networking: WLAN and WPAN

M. Conti, Introduction to WLAN and WPAN, Italian National Research Council (CNR) - IIT Institute, Italy

R. Bruno, Scatternet formation protocols for Bluetooh networks, Italian National Research Council (CNR) - IIT Institute, Italy

C. Hoene, An Experimental Approach to WLAN Research - A Short Tutorial, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany

E. Borgia, Experiments with 802.11, Italian National Research Council (CNR) - IIT Institute, Italy

20.30 Social dinner

11 October 2002

09.00 – 10.30 Session 3 : Ad Hoc Networking

A. Vaios, I. Stavrakakis, Ad hoc routing extensions in WLANs, University of Athens, Greece

S. Palazzo, Grouping operations in self-organizing ad-hoc networks, Università di Catania, Italy

C. Tschudin, On serious limits and simple principles for ad hoc routing, Uppsala University, Sweden

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 13.00 Session 4 : Cooperation and Security in Ad Hoc Networking

P. Michiardi, Cooperation Enforcement in Mobile Ad Hoc Network, Institut Eurécom, Sophia-Antipolis, France

S. Buchegger, Selfishness, Malice, and Slander in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland

N. Ben Salem, Stimulation for Cooperationin Ad Hoc Network, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

13.00 – 15.00 Lunch

15.00 – 16.30 Session 5 : Ongoing Mobile Ad Hoc Projects in Europe

M. Mauve, FleetNet Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks, Universitat Mannheim, Germany

S. Giordano, Terminodes: self-organised ad hoc networks, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

E. Gregori, VICOM, Italian National Research Council (CNR) - IIT Institute, Italy

16.30 - 17.00 Coffee Break

17.00 – 18.30 Session 6 : Ongoing Mobile Ad Hoc Projects in Europe

H. Karl, Making sensor networks useful: Distributed services in sensor networks, Technisches Universitat Berlin, Germany

L. Gambardella, BISON: ants in ad hoc networks, IDSIA, Switzerland

S. Ostring, Technical, Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Spectrum Allocation in the Modern Era, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

20.30 Social dinner

12 October 2002

09.00 - 10.30 Session 7 : Ongoing Mobile Ad Hoc Projects in Europe

M. Conti, MobileMAN - an ad hoc network for the citiziens, Italian National Research Council (CNR) - IIT Institute, Italy

R. Kantola, Service Discovery Integrated with Routing in Ad Hoc Networks, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

I. Stavrakakis, A. Vaios, The Broadway Project : the way to broadband access at 60GHz, University of Athens, Greece

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 - 13.00 Panel: “Is Mobile Ad Hoc Networking Part of the Future of Mobile Networking in Europe?”

Discussion and Conclusions

13.00 - 15.00 Lunch