Prediction approaches for improving energy efficiency of virtual force algorithms to the mobile sensor deployment problem

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We are pleased to welcome you to the 5th ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access -- MobiWac 2007. We are proud of the great success of highly productive MobiWac workshops held in recent years in Fort Worth (TX), Philadelphia (PA), Maui (Hawaii), and Torremolinos (Spain). The 2007, MobiWac workshop continues to maintain the high standards set by its predecessors. MobiWac provides an excellent venue to discuss and present original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, students, designers, and system developers on various issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access. We hope this workshop will continue to fulfill its primary mission which is to provide active researchers and practitioners a unique opportunity to share and exchange their ideas and solutions with others while enjoying a stimulating program. >The call for papers attracted 44 submissions from 25 countries (from Asia, NorthAmerica, South America, Australia, Europe, and Africa). The program committee accepted 18 papers. In addition, the program also includes a poster session that hosts 10 relevant short papers. The accepted papers cover a variety of topics, including localization and tracking, wireless sensor networks, Internetworking, 3G/4G, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), mobility management, modeling, performance analysis, Quality of Service (QoS) and scheduling, power management, cross-layer design, secure protocols, and privacy management. The accepted papers are from 21 countries demonstrating the strong international flavor and stature of the workshop. >Based upon the MobiWac TPC recommendations, the following three papers have been selected as candidates for the MobiWac 2007 Best Paper Award: >"A Proposal for Unifying Mobility with Multi-homing, NAT, and Security," Randall Atkinson, Saleem Bhatti, Stephen Hailes "An Efficient Link Management Algorithm for HighMobility Mesh Networks," Husnain Mansoor Ali, Amina Naimi, Anthony Busson, Veronique Veque "Evaluation of Impact Factors on RSS Accuracy for Localization and Tracking Applications," Tsenka Stoyanova, Fotis Kerasiotis, Aggeliki Prayati, George Papadopoulos. >We are pleased to announce the Winner of the Best Paper selected for MobiWac 2006, in Torremolinos, Spain: "Diagnosing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Two Distributed Comparison-Based Self-Diagnosis Protocols," by Mourad Elhadef, Azzedine Boukerche, Hisham Elkadiki.