Proceedings of the 5-th ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN 2008)

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 5th ACM International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN’08) that takes place in Vancouver, Canada on October 27-28, 2008. This year’s ACM PE-WASUN workshop brings together scientists, engineers, and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of wireless ad hoc, sensor, and ubiquitous networks with a specific emphasis on their performance evaluation and analysis. The mission of the workshop is to share novel approaches for monitoring, measuring, modeling, simulating, analyzing, optimizing and case-studying the characteristics of ad hoc, sensor, pervasive and ubiquitous networks, as well as exploring and developing new ad hoc networking protocols and tools with performance advantages. ACM PE-WASUN gives researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share their perspectives with others interested in the various aspects of performance evaluation. The call for papers attracted 34 (42 given in the list for Lisa) submissions from Europe, Asia, the North and South America and the Middle East. The technical program committee accepted 10 long papers (which represents a 30% acceptance rate) and 6 short papers that cover a variety of topics, including experimentations, tools for performance evaluation, models, performance evaluation for routing and MAC protocols. We hope that these proceedings will serve as valuable references for researchers and developers in the field of wireless ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks. Putting together ACM PE-WASUN’08 was a team effort. First of all, we would like to thank the authors and panelists 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. 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.