MSWIM

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 14th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), held in 2011 in the exciting city of Miami Beach, Florida, USA. MSWiM has a long tradition of introducing important, high quality and timely work, and we are very pleased that this year's event maintains the high standard set in previous years.

In 2011, the call for papers attracted a record high of 190 registered papers in all areas of mobile and wireless systems of which 160 were accepted into the review process. The submitted papers came from 32 countries, and the accepted papers from 21 countries, reflecting the truly international profile of MSWiM. It is also informative to note that the five most commonly listed topics for submissions to MSWiM this year were:

• Performance evaluation and modeling;

• Wireless network algorithm and protocols;

• Sensor and actuator networks;

• Analytical models; and,

• Wireless mesh networks, mobile ad hoc networks, and VANETS.

The submissions included a large number of papers of very high quality making the selection process difficult and competitive. In the end, we selected 45 regular papers, which is an acceptance rate of 24%, and an additional 8 short papers were recommended for the program for their high quality and contribution. The MSWiM 2011 technical program also comprises two distinguished keynote addresses by Professors J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, and Mostafa H. Ammar, a distinguished invited talk by Professor Jerome Haerri, a poster and demonstrator session and two tutorials. In addition, there are three one-day Symposia: MobiWAC, PE-WASUN and Q2SWinet as well as two workshops: WMuNeP and PM2HW2N co-located with the main conference.

Among the 45 regular papers, three have been selected as candidates for the best paper award at the conference and will be announced in the opening session. The papers selected are:

• "Modeling and Simulation of Service Composition in Opportunistic Networks," by Umair Sadiq, Mohan Kumar, Andrea Passarella and Marco Conti

• "Maximal Utility Rate Allocation for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks," by Bo Zhang, Robert Simon and Hakan Aydin

• "Seamless Rate Adaptation for Wireless Networking," by Hao Cui, Chong Luo, Kun Tan, Feng Wu and Cheng Wen Chen

The winner among these three papers will be announced at the conference banquet, and will be reported in the proceedings of MSWiM 2012.

We would like to congratulate the winners of the best paper award of MSWiM 2010: "Dynamic Random Replication for Data Centric Storage," Angel Cuevas, Manuel Uruena and Gustavo De Veciana.