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The First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems SenSys 2003
http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/ November 5-7, 2003, Los Angeles, California, USA

Sponsored by: ACM (Sigcomm, Sigmobile, Sigarch, Sigmetrics, Sigops), and NSF


* A preliminary program is available below and at
http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/program.html

* A limited amount of support for student travel is available. More information is at:
http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/TravelSupport.htm The deadline to apply is Monday, August 25, 2003.

Program

Wednesday, November 5  
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8:30 - 9:00 Opening and Awards

9:00 - 10:00 Networking Experience (Anish Arora)

* Understanding Packet Delivery Performance In Dense Wireless Sensor Networks, Jerry Zhao, and Ramesh Govindan (USC)
* Taming the Underlying Challenges of Reliable Multihop Routing in Sensor Networks, Alec Woo, Terence Tong (U. C. Berkeley), and David Culler (U. C.Berkeley & Intel Research)

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 Coverage (Loren Clare)

* Integrated Coverage and Connectivity Configuration in Wireless Sensor Networks, Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, Yuanfang Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Robert Pless, and Christopher Gill (Washington University in St. Louis)

* Minimal and Maximal Exposure Path Algorithms for Wireless Embedded Sensor Networks, Giacomino Veltri (UCLA), Qingfeng Huang (Washington University at St. Louis), Gang Qu (University of Maryland at College Park), and Miodrag Potkonjak (UCLA)

* Differentiated Surveillance for Sensor Networks, Ting Yan, Tian He, and John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia)

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 Storage (Joseph Hellerstein)

* Multi-Dimensional Range Queries in Sensor Networks, Xin Li, Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan (USC), and Wei Hong (Intel Research Laboratory)

* GEM: Graph EMbedding for Routing and Data-Centric Storage in Sensor Networks without Geographic Information, James Newsome and Dawn Song (Carnegie Mellon University)

* An Evaluation of Multi-resolution Storage for Sensor Networks, Deepak Ganesan, Ben Greenstein, Denis Perelyubskiy, Deborah Estrin (UCLA), and John Heidemann (USC/ISI)

2:30 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:30 Invited Panel - Emerging Sensor Net Applications

4:30 - 7:30 Posters, Demos, and Reception - Sponsored by Intel Research

Thursday, November 6   


8:30 - 10:00 Platforms (Lakshman Krishnamurthy)

* Bluetooth and Sensor Networks: A Reality Check, Martin Leopold, Mads Bondo Dydensborg, and Philippe Bonnet (University of Copenhagen)

* DFuse: A Framework for Distributed Data Fusion, Rajnish Kumar, Matthew Wolenetz, Bikash Agarwalla, Jun-Suk Shin, Phillip Ward Hutto, Arnab Paul, and Umakishore Ramachandran (Georgia Institute of Technology)

* TOSSIM: Accurate and Scalable Simulation of Entire TinyOS Applications, Philip Levis, Nelson Lee (UC Berkeley), Matt Welsh (Harvard University), and David Culler, (Intel Research & UC Berkeley)

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 Management (TBD)

* Timing-sync Protocol for Sensor Networks, Saurabh Ganeriwal, Ram Kumar, and Mani B. Srivastava (UCLA)
* Tracking a Moving Object with a Binary Sensor Network, Javed Aslam (Northeastern University), Zack Butler, Florin Constantin, Valentino Crespi, George Cybenko (Dartmouth College), and Daniela Rus (MIT)

* Overload Management in Sensor-Actuator Networks used for Spatially-Distributed Control Systems, Michael Lemmon, Qiang Ling, and Yashan Sun (Univ. of Notre Dame)

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 Energy-Efficient MAC (Feng Zhao)

* An Adaptive Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, Tijs van Dam, and Koen Langendoen (Delft University of Technology)

* Energy-Efficient, Collision-Free Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks, Venkatesh Rajendran, Katia Obraczka, and J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves (UC Santa Cruz)

2:00 - 3:30 Mini-tutorial: Foundations of Sensor Nets, Greg Pottie (UCLA)

3:30 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Dissemination (Adrian Perrig)

* Minimum-Energy Asynchronous Dissemination to Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks, Hyung Seok Kim (Seoul National University), Tarek F. Abdelzaher (University of Virginia), and Wook Hyun Kwon (Seoul National University)

* Spatiotemporal Multicast for Sensor Networks, Qingfeng Huang, Chenyang Lu, and Catalin Roman (Washington University in St. Louis)

* Matching Data Dissemination Algorithms to Application Requirements, John Heidemann, Fabio Silva (USC/ISI), and Deborah Estrin, UCLA/CS

7:00 - 8:00 Special Guest Speaker: Bruce Vaughn, VP of Research and Development, Walt Disney Imagineering

* Faking Artificial Intelligence: Bringing Characters and Environments to Life

8:00 - 10:00 Discussion/Evening Social/Tours of design labs Location: Freud Playhouse, Macgowan Hall, School of Theater, Film and Television


Friday, November 7   
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8:30 - 10:00 Compression & Aggregation (Sergio Servetto)

* Model Based Compression in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Milenko Drinic (Microsoft Research), Darko Kirovski (Microsoft Research), and Miodrag Potkonjak (UCLA)

* Application-Specific Compression for Time Delay Estimation in Sensor Networks, Lavanya Vasudevan, Antonio Ortega, and Urbashi Mitra (USC)

* Secure Information Aggregation in Sensor Networks, Bartosz Przydatek, Dawn Song, and Adrian Perrig (Carnegie-Mellon University)

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:30 Mini-tutorial: Industrial Standards

11:30 - 12:30 Congestion Control (Rich Martin)

* CODA: COngestion Detection and Avoidance in Sensor Networks, Chieh-Yih Wan, Shane B. Eisenman, and Andrew T. Campbell (Columbia University)

* Practical Lazy Scheduling in Sensor Networks, Ramana R. Kompella, and Alex C. Snoeren (UCSD)

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More information about the conference, including registration information, is available at the conference website:
http://www.cens.ucla.edu/sensys03/