The First International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Networks

Wireless networks raise a number of interesting and undiscovered performance evaluation and simulation issues, while traditional techniques are not sufficient to analyze, evaluate, and simulate proposed wireless algorithms or systems in the right way. For example, the algorithms and systems in vehicular ad hoc networks require a high degree of communication reliability, short communication delay, scalability, security, and privacy-preserving technologies under harsh condition. Researchers not only need to design practical distributed and centralized algorithms, but also need to introduce novel theoretical models or evaluation methodologies to challenge various kinds of research problems originated from these wireless networks. The workshop is intended to encourage idea sharing and cooperation among researchers in wireless networks, and push the theoretical and practical research forward for a deeper understanding in the theoretical modeling, evaluation and analysis techniques, and simulation methods in wireless networks. In response to the call-for-papers, this first event of PEWiN received 23 submissions, coming from different countries all around the globe. The program committee selected 12 papers for presentation at the workshop, putting together a very strong program while allowing a fair amount of time for presentation and discussions. The program committee consisted of 25 experts covering many of the different aspects of wireless networks. Each paper was carefully reviewed by at least three program committee members. Most submissions received three to four reviews, which were all collected electronically, and carefully revised by both program co-chairs. All the communication between chairs and TPC members were performed using EDAS, which made the program selection process very efficient. We appreciate the outstanding work performed by our TPC members.