## Welcome Message from the General Chair of WiMob'2022

# Welcome Message from the General Chair

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 18th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob'2022) in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since the first edition of WiMob in 2005, the IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications has been the key forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience among researchers, developers and practitioners of wireless and mobile technology. For eighteen years, the International IEEE WiMob conference has provided unique opportunities for researchers and developers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations, and discuss emerging directions in Wireless Communications, Mobile Networking and Ubiquitous Computing. Putting together WiMob 2022 has been a team effort. First of all, we would like to thank the authors of all submitted papers. Furthermore, we would like to express our gratitude to the program committee and to all external reviewers, who worked very hard on reviewing papers and providing suggestions for their improvements. The technical program of the main conference consists of 34 full-papers constituting 40% of acceptance ratio, 7 short papers and 3 demos. Moreover, we are proud and thankful of having 2 renowned keynote speakers at the 2022 edition of WiMob: - Professor Pascal Thubert CISCO, France and - Professor Marco Di Renzo Paris-Saclay University - CentraleSupelec, France. We would also like to thank the organizers of all workshops organized jointly with WiMob 2022:

- 10th international workshop on e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services (eHPWAS'22): Tayeb Lemlouma (IRISA Lab and Rennes 1 University, France) leading the workshop with Sébastien Laborie (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France), Abderrezak Rachedi (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France) and Yevgeniya Kovalchuk (Birmingham City University, United Kingdom).
- 9th International Workshop on Cooperative Wireless Networks (CWN'22): Cristina López Bravo (Universidade de Vigo, Spain) leading the workshop with Pablo Fondo Ferreiro (Universidade de Vigo, Spain), David Candal Ventureira, Universidade de Vigo, Spain) and Antonio Javier García Sánchez (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain).
- International Workshop on Vehicular Networks for Risk Reduction and Safety Related systems (VN4RRSR'22) (9th cycle of the WiMob Workshop formerly known as "Emergency Networks for Public Protection and Disaster Relief"): Maurizio Casoni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) leading the workshop.
- First International Workshop on Social Internet of Anything (SIoA'22): Valeria Loscri (Inria Lille, France) leading the workshop with Anna Maria Vegni (Roma Tre University, Italy) and De-Nian Yang (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan).
- 15th International Workshop on Selected Topics in Wireless and Mobile computing (STWiMob 2022): Damla Trugut (University of Central Florida, USA) and Abderrahim Benslimane (University of Avignon, France). We owe much gratitude to our Honorary chair Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA) for his support. Also, we would like to thank as well as our Executive chair Damla Trugut (University of Central Florida, USA) for her useful job, Fabrice Theoleyre (CNRS, France) leading the Technical Program activities for his contribution that was very valuable and all the TPC co-chairs Jeff Frolik (University of Vermont, USA), Francesco Chiti (University of Florence, Italy) and Vinay Chamola (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India). Many thanks to all TPC co-chairs without forgetting our Short Papers, Demos and Posters Symposium co-chairs, Valeria Loscri (INRIA, France) and Marica Amadeo (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy). Without the help of the publicity co-chairs WiMob would not have had such a success; so, many thanks to Enrica Zola (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain), Kandaraj Piamrat (University of Nantes, France), Weizhi Meng (DTU University, Denmark) and Ronald Beaubrun (University of Laval, Canada). Also, we would like to thank Mohamed-Slim Alouini (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA) and Shui Yu (University of Technoogy of Sydney, Australia) for handling aspects of the workshops start-up. We present a great thanks to Nguyen Minh Huong (University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Vietnam) as a publication chair. Thank you to our Webmaster, Chaimaa Boudagdigue (Avignon University, France), for her outstanding work on posting information related to WiMob 2022 on the web site. Finally, we would like to thank our technical sponsors IEEE and IEEE Communications Society for endorsing the conference. We hope that you will find this program interesting and thought-provoking and that it will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world.

Abderrahim Benslimane WiMob 2022 General Chair University of Avignon, France - Samuel Pierre Steering Committee Chair Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada