ACM MobiWac 2008

Message From the Chairs

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 6th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access - MobiWac ‘08 in Vancouver, Canada. Following the successful previous events in Fort Worth (TX), Philadelphia (PA), Maui (Hawaii), Torremolinos (Spain) and Chania (Greece), this year’s symposium continues the tradition of being a premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of mobility and wireless access, including models, systems, applications, and theory. The mission of the symposium is to share novel mobility management and wireless network solutions and identify new directions for future research and development. MobiWac gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of Mobile and Wireless Systems.
The call for papers attracted 50 submissions from Asia, North America, Europe, Central America and Australia. The program committee accepted 18 regular papers which represents an acceptance rate of 36%. These papers cover a variety of topics, including next generation access control models, engineering and analysis techniques for access control policies and models, and security administration. The program committee further accepted 10 papers as short papers. All submissions were fully peer reviewed. We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for mobile and wireless systems researchers and developers.
Based upon the MobiWac TPC recommendations, the following three papers have been selected as candidates for the MobiWac 2008 Best Paper Award:


Putting together MobiWac 2008 was a team effort. First of all, we would like to thank the authors for providing the content of the program. We would like to express our gratitude to the program committee and external reviewers, who worked very hard in reviewing papers and providing suggestions for their improvements. We would further like to thank Professor Azzedine Boukerche for his help with local arrangements, printing of proceedings and advice during the planning of the symposium. Also, we would like to thank the key note speaker, Professor Albert Zomaya. Finally, we would like to thank our sponsor, ACM, for their continued support of these successful meetings. We hope that you will find this program interesting and thought-provoking and that the symposium will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world.  


Sherali Zeadally
MobiWac’08 General Chair
University of the District of Columbia, USA   

Bjorn Landfeldt
MobiWac’08 Program Chair
University of Sydney, Australia