Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots

Abstract

Welcome to the Third ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Applications and Services on WLAN Hotspots (WMASH 2005). We are very pleased to present a workshop on a very hot, timely, and challenging topic. The success of WLANs is continuing, in spite of the very rapid evolution of today's wireless networks, characterized by sudden rise and fall of technologies and solutions. Today, we are witnessing a great and rising interest from both the research community and operators of public WLANs. In its third edition, WMASH promises to be an even greater success than its first two editions: the premier venue for the research community to convene and discuss technical and business challenges behind the evolution of WLAN from cable replacement to public access means.We received a total of 55 submissions from 29 countries. The workshop program includes 9 papers and 9 posters by authors from 15 countries. We regret that many high quality submissions could not be accommodated due to the space limitation. The program covers a variety of topics including mobility, location awareness, multimedia, accounting/management, and models/measurements. WMASH 2005, for the first time, includes a poster session with 9 exciting posters, and we believe that this session will foster lots of active interactions and discussions among participants. In addition to the presentation of papers/posters, the program also contains an exciting panel discussion on technical and business issues behind the evolution of WLAN hot-spots and hot-zones, in line with the tradition of the first WMASHs.