Wireless on-demand network systems and services have become pivotal in shaping our future networked world. Starting as a niche application over Wi-Fi, they can now be found in mainstream technologies like Bluetooth LE, LTE Direct and Wireless LANs, and have become the cornerstone of upcoming networking paradigms including mesh and sensor networks, cloud networks, vehicular networks, disruption tolerant and opportunistic networks, and in-body networks.

The challenges of this exciting research field are numerous. Examples include how to make smart use of these novel technologies when multiple technologies or a mix of permanent services and on-demand networking opportunities are available to a network node, how to provide robust services in highly dynamic environments, how to efficiently employ and operate heavily resource-constrained devices, and how to develop robust and lightweight algorithms for self-organization and adaptation. Finally, there are many application-specific challenges.

WONS, now in its sixteenth edition, is a high quality forum to address these challenges. WONS aims to provide a global platform for rich interactions between experts in their fields, discussing innovative contributions in a stimulating environment.

This announcement solicits original contributions of high-quality research providing novel insights on all aspects of wireless on-demand networks and systems; from protocol and network design, modeling, performance evaluation, energy efficiency, models and mechanisms, practical implementations, service level aspects, application use-cases, to the integration of multiple wireless network technologies.

Topics of interest comprise. but are not limited to:
Cognitive radio networks
Network management
Cross-layer design
Modeling and optimization
Energy-efficient protocols and power management
Mobile computing and services
Heterogeneous wireless networks
New architectures for on-demand wireless systems
Implementations and testbeds
Novel applications and services
Integration and co-existence of heterogeneous technologies
Opportunistic, delay-tolerant, and dissemination-based protocols
Intra-body and biomedical on-demand systems
Performance evaluation through simulations and experiments
Green wireless networks
Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Localization and mobility management
Security, privacy, and trust
MAC and advanced PHY technologies
Social and economic aspects
Middleware aspects
Underwater on-demand networked systems
Mobile peer-to-peer systems
Architectures and protocols for the Internet of Things
Vehicular networks
Device-to-device communication for 5G and 6G architectures