WLN 2012 Welcome Message from the WLN Chairs Welcome to the 12th International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks (WLN’12), in Clearwater, Florida. With a decade of continuing and increasing success, the International Workshop on Wireless Local Networks is proud to be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2012) to remain as an in-demand forum for publishing and exchanging state-of-the-art research and ideas. Having received a large number of submissions, many of which in high quality, our regret is that we had to compromise for time and space limitations. We are also excited to announce that Prof. Damla Turgut will be giving the keynote talk for WLN this year. Given Dr. Turgut’s strongly indicative contributions within the field, we believe her talk will be a valuable addition to this year's run, and a positive mark on the workshop's track. We stand in debt for our Technical Program Committee for their hard work and support. The workshop would not have been possible without them. We would also like to acknowledge LCN’s workshop chair, Nils Aschenbruck, and LCN’s general chair, Tom Pfeifer. Finally, our hope is that you find this year’s selection of publication valuable, and your participation in WLN’12 useful and productive. WLN’s 12 Workshop Chairs Hazem Refai, University of Oklahoma, USA Fadi Al-Turjman, Queen’s University, Canada
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