The IEEE LAN/MAN Workshop continues its tradition as a leading forum for discussing the latest technical advances in networking in the local and metropolitan areas. The workshop will focus on three broad areas that are currently experiencing significant change and innovation. First, Local and Metro Networking, including the LANMAN mainstay of access and metropolitan networks, which remains ever evolving as it aims to meet the challenge of large scale and ubiquitous access and usage; But also enterprise and home networking where the distinction between data, voice and media continues to blur as networks carry a variety of existing and new applications. Indeed, LANMAN’s second focus area is Applications at the Edge, which seek to exploit edge network evolution. This includes reincarnations of traditional applications, such as IPTV and VoIP, as well as applications newly enabled by advances in edge networking, such as peer-to-peer, storage, gaming, ambient-technology, and wearable computing. Our third focus area is Wireless Networking. Wireless networks are more complex and vulnerable than their wired counterpart. Furthermore, the interaction of different layers and technologies create challenging situations that cannot be foreseen during the design and testing stages of technology development. It is therefore critical to perform comprehensive empirical studies in a wide -range of production environments to uncover deficiencies and identify possible optimizations and extensions. LANMAN seeks both theoretical and experimental contributions to these areas. Single-track presentations are planned to stimulate technical exchange among researchers and practitioners with a broad interest in networking. We expect the workshop to be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on new architectures, paradigms, concepts, and economic and service models. Novel and speculative ideas are particularly encouraged. Furthermore, we would like to encourage studies based on measurements from real-life networks and testbeds.

Extended abstracts are solicited on any LANMAN topic including, but not limited to, the following: