================================================================================ International Workshop on Wireless Access Flexibility (WiFlex 2013) September 4-6, 2013, Kaliningrad (Svetlogorsk), Russia http://wiflex.iitp.ru/ ================================================================================ The needs of wireless networks operators and users, as well as service scenarios and application contexts are continuously and rapidly evolving. Unfortunately, the ability of traditional wireless technologies to adapt to this evolution is limited: they were designed as closed systems supporting a pre-established wireless access operation, and standardization organizations are slow in adapting to new requirements. This explains why a lot of potentially efficient but not fully standard compliant solutions have been discarded without consideration even if they had required a little change of the standard. WiFlex 2013 is the first forum intended to address flexible wireless access architecture design which opens the door for innovative solutions significantly improving network performance even if they do not fully conform to current telecommunication standards. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the flexibility level of the architecture needed for the next generation wireless communications. For this purpose, we have invited as keynote speakers brilliant lectors and outstanding researchers. They are Dr. Mischa Dohler (CTTC, Barcelona), Prof. Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University), Prof. Adam Wolisz (TU Berlin). Apart from the keynotes, WiFlex will contain sessions with regular papers. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that propose and investigate innovative approaches enhancing the current wireless standard functionalities or exploiting them in non-standard manner to improve wireless networks performance. Also authors are welcome to present their visions of the novel paradigms of wireless access flexibility and requirements for future wireless network architectures. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Next generation wireless networks and their architectures * 4G (WiMAX 2/LTE-A), candidates for 4G (Wi-Fi) and beyond 4G wireless network * Multihop wireless networks (MANET, VANET, mesh, DAWN, sensor) * Software defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization * Device-to-Device communications * Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine communications * Cognitive radio networks * Energy-efficient protocols, green networks and power management * Integration and co-existence of heterogeneous technologies * Novel applications and services * Cross-layer design and optimization * QoS and resource management * Modeling and performance evaluation * Implementations and testbeds * Operating systems and middleware support for networking WiFlex 2013 will be hosted on the coast of the Baltic Sea in Svetlogorsk, a very nice resort of Kaliningrad (former Konigsberg). The seven bridges of Konigsberg inspired Euler to write his foundational paper on graph theory. Bessel, Jacobi, Kirchhoff, Minkowski, Hilbert, all studied or worked here. The city witnessed the origin of whole areas of modern science. Kaliningrad is also famous because of its sights: Kaliningrad Organ (one of the greatest in the world), Amber Museum, Curonian Spit with the greatest dune in Europe. We will invite WiFlex participants to free excursions. Important Dates * Submission deadline: March 18, 2013 * Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2013 * Camera-ready manuscript: May 10, 2013 * WiFlex’13: September 4-6, 2013 Technical Program Committee General Co-Chairs * Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) * Andrey Lyakhov (IITP RAS, Russia) TPC Members * Jesus Alonso (Alvarion, Spain) * Raffaele Bruno (IIT/CNR, Italy) * Antonio Capone (Technical University of Milan/MobiMESH, Italy) * Xavier Costa-Perez (NEC, Germany) * Pierluigi Gallo (University of Palermo, Italy) * Omer Gurewitz (Ben Gurion University, Israel) * Evgeny Khorov (IITP RAS, Russia) * Andreas Maeder (NEC, Germany) * David Malone (Hamilton Institute, Ireland) * Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA, Spain) * Enzo Mingozzi (University of Pisa, Italy) * Marek Natkaniec (AGH, Poland) * Paul Patras (Hamilton Institute, Ireland) * Alexander Safonov (IITP RAS, Russia) * Pablo Serrano (UC3M, Spain) * Szymon Szott (AGH, Poland) * Ilenia Tinnirello (University of Palermo, Italy) * Guillaume Vivier (Sequans Communications, France) Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series indexed in the Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, MathSciNet, etc. The page limit is 12 pages and authors must comply with the LNCS instructions. The maximum number of words is 5000, including tables and figures. The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords and the name and affiliation of all the authors. The contact details of the corresponding author (e-mail and postal address) must be included as well. Papers must be submitted using the EDAS conference system that can be directly accessed with the following link: http://edas.info/N13597. It is also possible to log in to EDAS, click on the tab "Submit papers" and look for the entry “WiFlex 2013”.