Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Models

• Predictive performance models

• Probabilistic models

• Queuing analysis

• Analytical modeling

• Mobility modeling

• Traffic modeling

• Simulation

• Simulation methods

• Simulation performance

• Simulation analysis

• Real experimentation

• Real deployments and experimentation

• Open research platforms

• Guidelines for real experiments

• Tools

• Automatic performance analysis

• Tracing and trace analysis

• Software tools

• Performance measurement, evaluation and monitoring tools

• Deployment tools

• Case studies demonstrating the role of performance evaluation in the design of ad hoc, sensor and ubiquitous networks

• Network performance improvement through optimization and tuning

• Performance evaluation of

• wireless mesh networks

• pervasive and ubiquitous networks

• sensor wireless networks

• vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs)

• ad hoc UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) networks

• multihop cognitive radio networks