This workshop focuses on models and techniques for addressing resource allocation problems in wireless networks. Resource management in wireless environments is extremely complex due to the specific characteristics of wireless communications, such as user mobility, interference, the intrinsically scarce bandwidth, and the highly variable and unpredictable propagation conditions. These features present a vast range of novel and fundamental challenges as wireless networks evolve to support an expanding variety of data applications. In particular, data streams have drastically different traffic characteristics and Quality-of-Service requirements from voice services, urging a radical overhaul of voice-centric air-interface and resource allocation paradigms. In addition, existing congestion control protocols for data flows like TCP were originally designed for wireline networks, and are not well-suited to wireless links which are inherently slow and error-prone. A further dimension of complexity stems from the growing diversity in network architectures, as wireless LAN's and ad hoc networks rapidly proliferate, giving rise to a wide spectrum of pricing and routing issues.

The workshop proceedings will be listed in the IEEEXplore and the IEEE digital library.

Specific topics of interest include
(but are not limited to):

• air-interface scheduling
• cross-layer design
• dimensioning, provisioning and traffic engineering
• load balancing and routing
• models and techniques for optimization of wireless networks
• performance evaluation methods for wireless networks
• power control and energy-efficient communication
• pricing and incentive schemes in ad hoc networks

Important dates

Paper submission deadline	December 15, 2005
Notification of acceptance	February 15, 2006
Camera-ready papers due	March 1, 2006
Early-registration deadline	March 1, 2006

Workshop chairs

Sem Borst	Bell Labs, Lucent, USA CWI, The Netherlands
Alexandre Proutiere	France Telecom R&D Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

Technical program committee

Randall Berry	Northwestern University, USA
Thomas Bonald	France Telecom R&D, France
Richard Boucherie	University of Twente, The Netherlands
Costas Courcoubetis	Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Leonidas Georgiadis	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Piyush Gupta	Bell Labs, Lucent, USA
Nidhi Hegde	France Telecom R&D
Riku Jantti	University of Vaasa, Finland
Nihar Jindal	University of Minnesota, USA
Anurag Kumar	Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
Sanjay Shakkottai	University of Texas, USA
Vijay Subramanian	Motorola, USA
Phuoc Tran Gia	University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Jorma Virtamo	Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Harish Viswanathan	Bell Labs, Lucent, USA
Cedric Westphal	Nokia, USA
Phil Whiting	Bell Labs, Lucent, USA
Lisa Zhang	Bell Labs, Lucent, USA