Welcome Message
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the Wireless Networking Symposium, in conjunction with the prestigious 9th International Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2013) in the amazing and beautiful city of Cagliari, in Italy.
Last editions of the Symposium attracted a number of very interesting papers and were attended by several researchers from all over the world. The success of the those events was beyond our prospects, confirming the interest of the scientific community for the topics covered by the Symposium and, most notable, the demand for a Symposium that was specifically focused on such topics!
In the very recent period, wireless technologies and networks have evolved from pure academic lucubration to a promising business field that gathers the interest of the most important ICT players. Research on sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks, for years exclusive prerogative of academics, is now breaking through the border of University labs to enter R&D department of manufacturers, operators, providers. The possibility of providing ubiquitous connectivity by means of low cost multi-hop mesh or sensor networks, indeed, opens the way to the development of a plethora of novel applications, a perspective that attracts small entrepreneurs as well as giant telecom operators.
Nevertheless, there are still a number of roadblocks that need to be removed in order to ease the path towards this new market. IWCMC - Wiless Networking Symposium 2013 is intended to address such roadblocks and promote the research on this direction. In particular, it aims at promoting the circulation of ideas and the creation of contacts among the several researchers involved in quality and reliability, modeling and standardization, as well as application design aspects for communications over wireless networks.
Encouraged by the very positive response received by the first two editions and by the increasing interest on the topics covered by the Symposium, we are quite confident that it will be an exciting occasion to have a clear vision of the edging developments on the field of communications over wireless networks and to exchange ideas and experiences with other researchers active in this hot area.
We look forward to seeing you in Cagliari!