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IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
June 18 - 20, 2006
San Francisco, California, USA
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WWW.DCOSS.ORG
The 2006 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
(DCOSS '06) will take place in San Francisco during June 18 - 20, 2006.
DCOSS '06 will represent a merger of the DCOSS conference series and the
IEEE International Workshops on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and
Sensor Networks (WMAN). The first DCOSS conference, held at Marina del Rey on
June 30-July 1, 2005, featured high quality research papers and interesting
invited and contributed poster/presentation sessions. DCOSS '06 is intended
to cover several aspects of distributed computing in sensor systems such as
high level abstractions, computational models, systematic design methodologies,
algorithms, analysis and applications. The conference will be co-located with
several closely related workshops, and will provide a forum for researchers
and practitioners to present their contributions related to the above
high-level aspects of distributed sensor systems. In addition to contributed
papers, the meeting will also include keynote addresses by leading researchers,
a panel discussion, and a poster/presentation session.
SPONSORED BY
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
Held in co-operation with
ACM SIGARCH
ACM SIGBED
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
IFIP WG 10.3
IMPORTANT DATES
May 15, 2006: Early registration for conference
May 19, 2006: Hotel reservation at discounted rate
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2006
Workshop: Euro-American Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (EAWMS)
Workshop: Mobility and Scalability in Wireless Sensor Networks (MSWSN)
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MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2006
7:30 am - 8:20 am Continental Breakfast
8:20 am - 8:30 am Opening Remarks
Jose Rolim
(Steering Committee Chair, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland)
Viktor Prasanna
(General Chair, Univ. of Southern California, USA)
Phil Gibbons
(Program Chair, Intel Research/CMU, USA)
8:30 am - 9:35 am KEYNOTE:
"Structure Discovery and Information Brokerage
in Sensor Networks"
Leonidas Guibas (Stanford Univ., USA)
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9:35 am - 9:50 am BREAK
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9:50 am - 11:50 am Session 1: DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS & APPLICATIONS
* Evaluating Local Contributions to Global Performance in Wireless Sensor
and Actuator Networks
Christopher Rozell, Don Johnson (Rice Univ., USA)
* Roadmap Query for Sensor Network Assisted Navigation in Dynamic
Environments
Sangeeta Bhattacharya, Nuzhet Atay, Gazihan Alankus, Chenyang Lu,
Burchan Bayazit, Gruia-Catalin Roman
(Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA)
* Stabilizing Consensus in Mobile Networks
Dana Angluin, Michael J. Fischer, Hong Jiang (Yale Univ.)
* When Birds Die: Making Population Protocols Fault-Tolerant
Carole Delporte-Gallet (Universite Paris); Hugues Fauconnier
(LIAFA, Paris);
Rachid Guerraoui (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL));
Eric Ruppert (York Univ.)
* Stochastically Consistent Caching and Dynamic Duty Cycling for Erratic
Sensor Sources
Shanzhong Zhu, Wei Wang, Chinya Ravishankar
(Univ. of California at Riverside, USA)
* Distributed Model-Free Stochastic Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Daniel Yagan, Chen Khong Tham (National Univ. of Singapore)
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11:50 am - 1:15 pm LUNCH (on your own)
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1:15 pm - 3:15 pm Session 2: PROGRAMMING SUPPORT & MIDDLEWARE
* Agimone: Middleware Support for Seamless Integration of Sensor and
IP Networks
Gregory Hackmann, Chien-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin Roman, Chenyang Lu
(Washington Univ. St. Louis)
* Gossip Based Multi-Channel Reprogramming for Sensor Networks
Limin Wang, Sandeep Kulkarni (Michigan State Univ.)
* The Virtual Pheromone Communication Primitive
Leo Szumel, John Owens (Univ. of California at Davis)
* Logical Neighborhoods: A Programming Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks
Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco (Politecnico di Milano)
* Y-Threads: Supporting Concurrency in Wireless Sensor Networks
Christopher Nitta, Raju Pandey, Yann Ramin
(Univ. of California at Davis)
* Comparative Analysis of Push-Pull Query Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks
Shyam Kapadia, Bhaskar Krishnamachari (Univ. of Southern California)
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3:15 pm - 3:30 pm BREAK
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3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Session 3: DATA AGGREGATION & DISSEMINATION
* Using Data Aggregation to Prevent Traffic Analysis in Wireless
Sensor Networks
William Conner, Tarek Abdelzaher, Klara Nahrstedt
(Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
* Efficient and Robust Data Dissemination using Limited Extra
Network Knowledge
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (Computer Technology Institute);
Athanasios Kinalis, Sotiris Nikoletseas
(Univ. of Patras and Computer Technology Institute)
* Distance-Sensitive Information Brokerage in Sensor Networks
Stefan Funke (Max-Planck-Institut f. Informatik);
Leonidas Guibas, An Nguyen, Yusu Wang (Stanford)
* Efficient In-Network Processing through Local Ad-hoc Information
Coalescence
Onur Savas, Murat Alanyali,Venkatesh Saligrama (Boston Univ.)
* Distributed Optimal Estimation from Relative Measurements for Localization
and Time Synchronization
Prabir Barooah (UCSB); Neimar Da Silva (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janerio);
Joao Hespanha (UCSB)
* GIST: Group-Independent Spanning Tree for Data Aggregation in Dense
Sensor Networks
Lujun Jia, Guevara Noubir, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Ravi Sundaram
(Northeastern Univ.)
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5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Poster Session and Reception
Chair: Jim Reich (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)
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TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2006
8:00 am - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:35 am KEYNOTE:
"In-network Adaptation of Sensor Node Location and Energy"
William J. Kaiser (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)
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9:35 am - 9:50 am BREAK
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9:50 am - 10:50 am Session 4: SECURITY
* Distributed User Access Control in Sensor Networks
Haodong Wang, Qun Li (College of William and Mary)
* Locating Compromised Sensor Nodes through Incremental Hashing
Authentication
Youtao Zhang (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Jun Yang, Lingling Jin
(UC Riverside); Weijia Li (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
* COTA: A Robust Multi-hop Localization Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks
Yawen Wei, Zhen Yu, Yong Guan (Iowa State Univ.)
10:50 am - 11:50 am Session 5: INFORMATION FUSION
* Contour Approximation in Sensor Networks
Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Sorabh Gandhi (UCSB); John Hershberger
(Mentor Graphics); Subhash Suri (UCSB)
* A Distortion Aware Scheduling Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks
Periklis Liaskovitis, Curt Schurgers (UCSD)
* Optimal Placement and Selection of Camera Network Nodes for Target
Localization
Ali Ercan, Danny Yang, Abbas El Gamal, Leonidas Guibas (Stanford)
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11:50 am - 1:15 pm LUNCH (on your own)
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1:15 pm - 3:15 pm Session 6: LIFETIME MAXIMIZATION
* An Optimal Data Propagation Algorithm for Maximizing the Lifespan of
Sensor Networks
Aubin Jarry, Pierre Leone, Olivier Powell, Jose Rolim
(Univ. of Geneva)
* Lifetime Maximization under Connectivity and k-Coverage Constraints in
Wireless Sensor Networks
Wei Mo, Daji Qiao, Zhengdao Wang (Iowa State Univ.)
* Network Power Scheduling for TinyOS Applications
Barbara Hohlt, Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley)
* Algorithms for Scheduling Wireless Sensor Networks with Rate and
Duty-Cycle Constraints over Interference Channels
Rajgopal Kannan, Shuangqing Wei (Louisiana State Univ.)
* MobiRoute: Routing towards a Mobile Sink for Improving Lifetime in
Sensor Networks
Jun Luo, Jacques Panchard, Michal Piorkowski, Matthias Grossglauser,
Jean-Pierre Hubaux (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL))
* SenCar: An Energy Efficient Data Gathering Mechanism for Large Scale
Multihop Sensor Networks
Ming Ma, Yuanyuan Yang (State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook)
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3:15 pm - 3:30 pm BREAK
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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Session 7: LOCALIZATION
* A Distributed Linear Least Squares Method for Precise Localization with
Low Complexity in Wireless Sensor Networks
Frank Reichenbach (University of Rostock)
* Consistency-Based On-line Localization in Sensor Networks
Jessica Feng, Miodrag Potkonjak
(University of California at Los Angeles)
* The Robustness of Localization Algorithms to Signal Strength Attacks:
A Comparative Study
Yingying Chen, Konstantin Kleisouris, Xiaoyan Li, Wade Trappe,
Richard Martin (Rutgers University)
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4:30 pm DCOSS 2006 CONCLUDES
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WORKSHOP PROGRAMS
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EURO-AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON MIDDLEWARE FOR SENSOR NETWORKS (EAWMS)
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SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2006
8:00 am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 9:15 am Opening Remarks: Stefan Fischer (Chair)
9:15 am - 10:30 am Session 1
* FABRIC: Towards Data Type-centric Middleware Synthesis
Dennis Pfisterer, Horst Hellbr?ck, Stefan Fischer
(University of L?beck, Germany)
* Rule-Oriented Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks
Kirsten Terfloth, Georg Wittemburg, Joschen Schiller
(Freie Universitdt Berlin, Germany)
Discussion
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10:30 am - 10:45 am BREAK
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10:45 am - 12:00 pm Session 2
* Transiently Shared Tuple Spaces for Sensor Networks
Amy L. Murphy (University of Lugano, Switzerland),
Gian Pietro Picco (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
* Sensor Network Middleware for Managing a Cross-Layer Architecture
Christophe J. Merlin, Wendi B. Heinzelman
(University of Rochester, USA)
Discussion
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm LUNCH (on your own)
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1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Session 3
* Frugal Mobile Objects
Benoit Garbinato (University of Lausanne, Switzerland),
Rachid Guerraoui, Jarle Hulaas, Maxime Monod, Jesper H. Spring
(EPFL, Switzerland)
* Resource-Aware Service Architecture for Collaboration of Sensor Nodes
Jan Blumenthal, Dirk Timmermann (University of Rostock, Germany)
Discussion
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2:15 pm - 2:30 pm BREAK
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2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Session 4
* Distributed Mining of Spatio-Temporal Event-Pattern in Sensor Networks
Kay Rfmer (ETHZ, Switzerland)
* Middleware and Simulation Support for WSN Motion Control Agorithm
Design and Analysis
Norbert Luttenberger, Jochen Koberstein (University of Kiel, Germany)
Discussion
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3:45 pm - 4:00 pm BREAK
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Session 5
* SensorBase.org - a Centralized Repository to Slog Sensor Network Data
Kevin Chang, Nathan Yau, Mark Hansen, Deborah Estrin
(University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
* Pervasive Grids: Integrating Sensor Networks into the Fixed Grid
Geoff Coulson (Lancaster University, England)
Discussion
Future Steps
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WORKSHOP ON MOBILITY AND SCALABILITY IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (MSWSN)
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SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2006
8:00 am - 8:45 am Continental Breakfast
8:45 am - 9:00 am Opening Remarks
Christian Schindelhaer (Chair)
9:00 am - 11:00 am Session 1: MOBILITY
* Invited Talk: Keith J. O'Hara (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Mobility and Pervasiveness in Physical Computing Systems
joint work with Tucker Balch
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
* Mobility Management in Sensor Networks
Muneeb Ali (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan),
Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden),
Zartash Afzal Uzmi (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
* Autonomous Mobile Networks Overlaid on Public Transportation Networks
G. Sampath (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA), J. TenEyck
(Marist College, Poughkeepsie, USA)
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11:00 am - 11:15 am BREAK
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11:15 am - 12:30 pm Session 2: SCALABILITY
* Invited Talk: Sándor Fekete (Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany)
Algorithmic Aspects of Large Sensor Networks
joint work with Alexander Krüller
(Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany),
Dennis Pfisterer, Stefan Fischer
(University of Lübeck, Germany)
* Intelligent Hierarchical Cluster-Based Routing
Abdul W. Matin, Sajid Hussain
(Jodrey School of Computer Science, Wolfville, Canada)
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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm LUNCH (on your own)
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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Session 3: LIFETIME
* Invited Talk: Sotiris Nikoletseas
(Research Academic Computer Technology Institute,
Patras, Greece)
"Adaptive Power Saving for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
with Incremental Deployment"
* Invited Talk: Jun Luo
(School of Computer and Communication Sciences,
Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Mobility to Improve the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks:
A Theoretical Framework"
joint work with Jean-Pierre Hubaux (School of Computer and
Communication Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland)
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4:00 pm - 4:15 pm BREAK
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4:15 pm - 5:30 pm PANEL DISCUSSION
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Please note that the IWAN 2006 CfP has been extended to May 21st.
Call for Papers: IWAN 2006
Eighth Annual IFIP TC6
Working Conference on Active and Programmable Networks
September 25-29, 2006
Paris, France
http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/Iwan.htm
Co-located with
SMARTNET'06 - INTELLCOMM'06 - WAC'06
as part of Autonomic Networking 2006
IWAN06 will be part of the "Autonomic Networking" conference, which is
the first international conference on all aspects of autonomic
networking (architecture, services, tools, security,
communications, ...). This conference groups four past events:
SMARTNET on tools for autonomic networking
(http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/SMARTNET.htm);
INTELLCOMM on autonomic management and services
(http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/Intellcomm.htm);
WAC on autonomic communications
(http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/WAC.htm )
and IWAN on active networks
(http://dnac.org/autonomic-networking/temp/IWAN.htm)
Active and programmable networking has, over the past several years,
laid the foundations of providing easy, but robust, introduction of
new network services to devices such as routers and switches by adding
dynamic programmability to network equipment. Network programmability
and service deployment architectures can bring the right services to
the customer at the right time and location. The methods and
technologies explored in active and programmable networking research
have helped realise the trend towards ad-hoc networks, autonomic
computing and communications, sensor networks and content-aware
distribution. Also, active and programmable networks will continue to
play an important role in future network architectures where the
Quality of Service aspects of performance, security and resilience are
crucial.
IWAN06 brings together members of various communities using active and
programmable network techniques to address the above challenges, and
it provides a forum for discussion and collaboration involving
researchers, developers, service providers and potential users. We
encourage the submission of papers that cover all aspects of active
network based communication, including foundations of robust languages
and security mechanisms, active transport, active services and service
deployment, active terminals, and active management. In addition, the
meeting will focus on relating active techniques to customer needs and
services. It is expected that most submissions will include proofs of
concept and/or quantitative results. However, we welcome high quality
descriptive contributions where the ideas are particularly novel or
where the concepts introduced are likely to influence the work of
others. Authors are invited to submit papers addressing, but not
limited to, the following active and programmable networking topics:
* Architectures and new concepts for programmability and
flexibility in networks
* Standardization of frameworks
* Secure and robust network operation
* Formal descriptions, analysis, and methodologies
* Self-organizing and self-managing networks
* Cognitive networks
* Design and development methodologies and tools
* Overlay networks
* Storage in networking
* Active and programmable technologies for Grids
* Security within programmable and active frameworks
* Applications and experiments
* Service creation, deployment, and management
* Programmable network elements and devices
* Network processor platforms
* Hardware and software platforms for autonomous infrastructures
* Mobile and ad-hoc networking; mobile platforms
* Programmability and software radios
* Content- and context-aware distribution
* Autonomic programmable networking
* Building complex systems
Information for Authors:
Submissions should describe original work (not submitted or published
elsewhere) and be 10 single-spaced pages (5,000 words) or less in
length. Submissions should include: title, authors, affiliations,
150 word abstract, and list of keywords. Identify the author
responsible for correspondence, including the author's name, position,
mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address. Authors
are requested to submit their manuscripts electronically through the
EDAS web site (http://edas.info/). The post-conference proceedings
are expected to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) Series. The best papers are expected to be
published in the open access IFIP TC6 Journal on Networking available
free of charge in the IFIP Digital Library.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline for papers: May 21, 2006
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2006
Final Manuscript due: June 30, 2006
IWAN06 Meeting date: during the week of September 25-29, 2006
IWAN is sponsored by IFIP TC6/WG6.2 (Network and Internetwork
Architectures), WG6.6 (Management of Networks and Distributed Systems)
and WG6.7 (Smart Networks)
General Chairs: R. Kung (France Telecom, FR) and H. Zimmermann
(Ginkgo-Networks, FR)
Steering Committee:
David Hutchison (Lancaster University, GB)
Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, FR)
Bernhard Plattner (ETH Zuerich, CH)
James P.G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas, US, and Lancaster
University, GB)
Technical Programme Committee:
Co-Chairs:
G. Leduc (University of Liege, BE)
K. Calvert (University of Kentucky, US)
Members:
Alessandro Bassi (Hitachi Europe, FR)
Bobby Bhattacharjee (University of Maryland, US)
Matthias Bossardt (KPMG, Zuerich, CH)
Robin Braun (University of Technology of Sydney, AU)
Marcus Brunner (NEC, DE)
Hermann DeMeer (University of Passau, DE)
Spyros Denazis (Hitachi Europe, FR, and University of Patras, GR)
Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College London, GB)
Jim Griffioen (University of Kentucky, US)
Robert Haas (IBM Zuerich, CH)
Gisli Hjalmtysson (Reykjavik University, IS)
David Hutchison (Lancaster University, GB)
Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, FR)
Dave Lewis (Trinity College of Dublin, IE)
John Lockwood (Washington University, US)
Eckhard Moeller (Fraunhofer Fokus, DE)
Scott Nettles (University of Texas, Austin, US)
Danny Raz (Technion, IL)
Joan Serrat (UPC, Barcelona, ES)
James Sterbenz (University of Kansas, USA, and Lancaster University, GB)
Toshiaki Suzuki (Hitachi Ltd, JP)
Christian Tschudin (University of Basel, CH)
Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts, US)
Martina Zitterbart (University of Karlsruhe, DE)
(Apologies if you receive this call multiple times.)
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CALL FOR POSTERS and DEMOS
*Deadline: June 30, 2006, 5 pm EDT*
IEEE SECON 2006
The Third IEEE International Conference on
Sensors, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
http://www.ieee-secon.org/2006/
Sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org)
Technically Co-Sponsored by AFCEA (www.afcea.org)
September 25-28, 2006
Reston, Virginia, USA (Near Washington DC's Dulles airport)
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To provide a forum for discussion and personal interaction between
presenter and participants, IEEE SECON 2006 will include poster and
demonstration sessions: works in progress, industry demonstrations of
new applications and techniques, practical implementations, military,
industrial and commercial developments, research testbeds and
demonstrations, recent research/implementation results, upcoming
research challenges, future directions, and novel approaches in the
fields of sensor, mesh and ad hoc communications and networks. One of
the key goals of this conference is to foster collaboration between
industry, government agencies and academia. Hence, participation of
researchers/developers from industry or governement agencies and
posters/demonstrations reporting joint work are especially encouraged.
Topics considered for posters and demo are, but not limited to:
* New architectures and protocols to support
communication, localization, time synchronization,
routing, data dissemination, and other distributed
services in heterogeneous, large-scale distributed,
mesh networks and sensor networks
* Novel algorithms and theories for management,
supervisory control, and monitoring of distributed ad
hoc networks, and techniques for the interpretation
and use of sensor data in decision-making processes
* Modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale
distributed ad hoc and sensor networks, practical
implementations and deployments, and real-world
experiences
* Theories and models on fundamental information and
communication aspects of wireless mesh and sensor
networks
* Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and
data dissemination in sensor and mesh networks
* Algorithms and protocols to support quality of service
in mesh and sensor networks, including admission
control, resource allocation and fairness, and
capacity planning
* Integration of sensors into engineered systems,
including novel techniques for on-sensor renewable
power sources, mechanisms for on-sensor
self-calibration and self-testing, and efficient
schemes to maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms
* Hardware platforms incorporating multiple sensors,
computation, actuation, and wireless interfaces
* Software platforms, middleware, and tools for mesh and
sensor network applications development, deployment,
and management
Submissions should be in the form of a proposal describing the main
contributions of the poster/demo and the merits of the proposed
ideas. If available, preliminary results can also be
included. Proposals will be evaluated mainly based on their potential
to stimulate interesting discussions, exchange of ideas and promote
collaborations.
A prize will be awarded to the best demo by a jury composed of
academic and/or venture capital participants.
Submissions should not be more than three pages (preferably IEEE
conference format, 2-column) in length. Demonstration submissions
should include the space requirements and/or any other
equipment-specific requirements. The documents must contain the
authors' names, affiliations, and contact information and the
designated corresponding author.
Accepted authors of posters/demos will have a space in the poster/demo
session room to display their posters or exhibit their demos and
describe their work in discussions with interested attendees.
IEEE Communications Society policy states that all accepted SECON 2006
posters/demos must have at least one registration at the regular
rate. For authors co-authoring multiple posters/demos, one regular
registration is valid for up to three presentations.
Submission will be accepted until Friday, June 30th, 5 pm EDT for
demos and for posters. Please send the submission material to the
poster/demo chairs in pdf format, and make sure to include the first
author name and either POSTER or DEMO in the name of the pdf file:
Stefano Basagni Cedric Westphal
Northeastern University Nokia
basagni(a)ece.neu.edu cedric.westphal(a)nokia.com
Notification of Poster/Demo decisions: July 21, 2006. Accepted
Poster/Demo Presenters MUST register by August 31, 2006.
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