[Apologies for multiple copies] ********************************************************** * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * The Fifth International Conference on * * Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN'06) * * * * * * April 19-21, 2006 - Nashville, TN, USA * * http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~ipsn06/ * * * ********************************************************** Please join us at the Music City and enjoy the natural beauty of the Tennessee hillsides. Online registration for IPSN 2006 is available at http://ipsn2006.regmaster2.com/ The Fifth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2006) April 19-21, Nashville, TN Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome and Keynote Speaker Introduction 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM KEYNOTE TALK #1 Security in Sensor Networks: Industry Trends, Present and Future Research Directions Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University) 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM BREAK 10:20 AM - 12:00 N IPSN'06 Main Track - Sensor Selection and Placement - Chair: Stephen Wicker (Cornell) Near-optimal Sensor Placements: Maximizing Information while Minimizing Communication Cost Utility-based Sensor Selection Global connectivity from local geometric constraints for sensor networks with various wireless footprints Simultaneous Localization, Calibration, and Tracking in an ad Hoc Sensor Network Distributed localization of networked cameras 12:00 N - 1:40 PM LUNCH 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM IPSN'06 Main Track - Mobile Agents and Routing - Chair: Deepak Ganesan (UCLA) Data Gathering Tours in Sensor Networks Decentralized Compression and Predistribution via Randomized Gossiping Active Learning for Adaptive Mobile Sensing Networks Gossiping with Geographic Routing: Efficient Aggregation for Sensor Networks Differential Games on Large Scale Sensor Networks 3:20 PM - 4:10 PM BREAK POSTERS - WORK IN PROGRESS - Chair: Phillip Gibbons (Intel Research) 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM IPSN'06 Main Track - Sensor Tasking and Data Retrieval - Chair: Phillip Gibbons (Intel Research) Active Wireless Sensing for Rapid Information Retrieval in Sensor Networks Kinetically Stable Task Assignment for Networks of Microservers Random Distributed Multiresolution Representations with Significance Querying Slip Surface Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks for Landslide Prediction 6:30 PM Conference Dinner Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Best Paper Awards and Keynote Speaker Introduction 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM KEYNOTE TALK #2 Beyond SensorWebs: Closing the Loop in Network Embedded Systems Shankar Sastry (U.C. Berkeley) 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM BREAK 10:20 AM - 12:00 N IPSN'06 Main Track - Wireless Sensor Networking - Chair: Carlos Guestrin (CMU) Coverage for Target Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks Error Propagation in Dense Wireless Networks with Cooperation Compressive Wireless Sensing Sweeps Over Wireless Sensor Networks CAPTRA: Coordinated Packet Traceback 12:00 N - 1:40 PM LUNCH 1:40 PM - 3:00 PM IPSN'06 Main Track - Sensing and Estimation Methodologies - Chair: Rob Nowak (Wisconsin) On the Interdependence of Sensing and Estimation Complexity in Sensor Networks A Space-Time Diffusion Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Least-Squares Estimation Universal Distributed Sensing via Random Projections Sensor Networks & Inverse Scattering 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM POSTERS - MAIN TRACK - Chair: Anna Scaglione (Cornell) Analytic Modeling of Detection Latency in Mobile Sensor Networks Effect of Analog-to-Digital Converter in Distributed Sampling for Sensor Networks SmartGossip: an improved randomized broadcast protocol for sensor networks Sleep Scheduling and Lifetime Maximization in Sensor Networks: Fundamental Limits and Optimal Solutions Structuring Contention-based Channel Access in Wireless Sensor Networks eSENSE: Energy Efficient Stochastic Sensing Framework for Wireless Sensor Platforms An Architecture for Wavelet Analysis and Processing in Sensor Networks Sensory Grammars for Understanding Motion Behaviors in Sensor Networks Sensing the Channel: Sensor Networks with Shared Sensing and Communications Design and Testing of Robust Acoustic Arrays for Localization and Enhancement of Several Bird Sources CRBcast: A Collaborative Rateless Scheme for Reliable and Energy-Efficient Broadcasting in Wireless Sensor Networks Energy-Driven Detection Scheme with Guaranteed Accuracy Secure Code Distribution in Dynamically Programmable Wireless Sensor Networks A Linear Programming approach to NLOS error mitigation in Sensor Networks Energy-Efficient Data Representation and Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on a Distributed Wavelet Compression Algorithm A Comparative Analysis of Multi-hop Localization Sensitivity to Ranging Irregularities Securing the Deluge Network Programming System 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM POSTERS - SPOTS TRACK - Chair: Anna Scaglione (Cornell) Channel Allocation Strategies for Wireless Sensors Statically Deployed in Multipath Environments Tapper: A Lightweight Scripting Engine for Highly Constrained Wireless Sensor Nodes Tinker: A Tool for Designing Data-Centric Sensor Networks TinyNode: A Comprehensive Platform for WSN deployments The uPart Experience: Building a Wireless Sensor Network Ultra-Low Power Storage for Sensor Networks 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM DEMONSTRATIONS - Chair: Andreas Savvides (Yale University) 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM IPSN Business Meeting - Chair: Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research) SPOTS 2006 Presentation Program - Friday, April 21, 2006 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM BREAKFAST 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Welcome, Best Paper and Demo Awards and Keynote Speaker Introduction - J. Paradiso (MIT) 8:45 AM - 10:00 AM KEYNOTE TALK #3 Probing the Mystery of the Highest Energy Cosmic Particles with a Large Distributed Observatory Angela Olinto (University of Chicago) 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM BREAK 10:20 AM - 11:00 AM SPOTS'06 Session 1 - Sensor Network Platforms - Chair: Ralph Kling (Intel Research) A 15x15mm, 1uA, Reliable Sensor-Net Module: Enabling Application-Specific Nodes Miniaturization Platform for Wireless Sensor Nodes Based on 3D-Packaging Technologies 11:00 AM - 12:00 N SPOTS'06 Session 2 - Sensor Network Testbeds - Chair: Jim Reich (PARC) Kansei: A Testbed for Sensing at Scale Trio: Enabling Sustainable and Scalable Outdoor Wireless Sensor Network Deployments Marionette: a Tool Suite for Debugging and Scripting of Wireless Sensor Networks 12:00 N - 1:40 PM LUNCH 1:40 PM - 2:40 PM SPOTS'06 Session 3 - Software, Development Suites, & Algorithms - Chair: Andreas Savvides (Yale University) A Spreadsheet Approach to Programming and Managing Sensor Networks Sdlib: A Sensor Network Data and Communications Library for Rapid and Robust Application Development Node Density Independent Localization 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM BREAK 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM SPOTS'06 Session 4 - New Sensors and Architectures - Chair: Kazuo Yano (Hitachi Research) The Low Power Energy Aware Processing (LEAP) System Event-Based Imagers for Sensor Networks: Evaluation and Modeling Towards Radar-Enabled Sensor Networks 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM SPOTS'06 Session 5 - Applications - Chair: Wayne Wolf (Princeton University) Structural Damage Detection and Localization using NetSHM A Sensor Network for Social Dynamics Wireless Adhoc Sensor and Actuator Networks on the Farm 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM - Wrap-up and Discussion