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ACM SenSys 2006 - Call for Participation
The 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Boulder, Colorado, USA October 31 - November 3, 2006
In the short period since its inception in Los Angeles in 2003, SenSys has risen to become the leading forum for reporting on new, exciting, and technically important research in the field of sensor networks.
Please note that the cut off dates for the conference hotels and early registration are September 29 and October 30, respectively.
This year we have a stellar conference for you that includes:
* A keynote by David Carlson Director, International Polar Year Program Office, and formally, Director of the Atmospheric Technology Division of the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
* 24 technical papers
* 29 Sensor network demos
* 19 Posters - representing early results and work-in-progress
* 2 one day workshops on emerging and important new topics in sensor networks. The workshops will be held the day prior to the main technical program
+ First Workshop on World-Sensor-Web: Mobile Device Centric Sensory Networks and Applications http://www.sensorplanet.org/wsw2006/
+ First Workshop on Distributed Smart Cameras http://www.iti.tugraz.at/dsc06/
Registration is now open:
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=97157
Important Dates:
Cut off date for reduced hotel rates is *September 29, 2006*
Cut off date for early registration is *October 30, 2006*
Please book and register today to guarantee the best rates.
One behalf of the whole organizing team we very much look forward to seeing you at SenSys in Boulder!
Best regards,
Andrew T. Campbell SenSys 2006 General Chair
Thanks to our sponsors:
ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMOBILE, SIGARCH, SIGOPS, SIGMETRICS, SIGBED
NSF, NCAR, ISTS, Crossbow, Intel, Microsoft Research, Moteiv, Nokia
Below you'll find the technical program. Please go to http://sensys.acm.org/2006/ for more information.
========================================= **Technical Program, Demos, and Posters** =========================================
Wednesday, November 1
08:15-08:30 Opening announcements
08:30-10:00 Keynote
David Carlson Director, International Polar Year Program Office
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Operating Systems
t-kernel: Providing Reliable OS Support to Wireless Sensor Networks Lin Gu, John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia)
Run-time Dynamic Linking for Reprogramming Wireless Sensor Networks Adam Dunkels, Niclas Finne, Joakim Eriksson, Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)
Protothreads: Simplifying Event-Driven Programming of Memory- Constrained Embedded Systems Adam Dunkels, Oliver Schmidt, Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science), Muneeb Ali (TU Delft)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Sensing
Capturing High-Frequency Phenomena Using a Bandwidth-Limited Sensor Network Ben Greenstein, Christopher Mar, Alex Pesterev, Shahin Farshchi, Eddie Kohler, Jack Judy, Deborah Estrin (UCLA)
Virtual High-resolution for Sensor Networks Aman Kansal, William J. Kaiser, Gregory J. Pottie, Mani B. Srivastava (UCLA) and Gaurav Sukhatme (USC)
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00 -16:30 Routing and Dissemination
RBP: Robust Broadcast Propagation in Wireless Networks Fred Stann (Amgen), John Heidemann, Rajesh Shroff, Muhammad Zaki Murtaza (USC/ISI)
Interest Dissemination with Directional Antenna for Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Sinks Yihong Wu, Xiaobo Chen, Lin Zhang, Zhisheng Niu (Tsinghua University)
Lazy Cross-Link Removal for Geographic Routing Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan (USC), Brad Karp (University Colledge London), Scott Shenker (UCB)
**19.00 Banquet at the Walnut Brewery Boulder's Original Brew Pub 1123 Walnut Street**
Thursday, November 2
09:00-10:00 Configuration
StarDust: A Flexible Architecture for Passive Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks Radu Stoleru, Pascal Vicaire, Tian He, John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia)
The Design and Implementation of a Self-Calibrating Distributed Acoustic Sensing Platform Lewis Girod (MIT/CSAIL), Martin Lukac, Vlad Trifa, Deborah Estrin (UCLA)
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 In-network Processing
Target Tracking with Binary Proximity Sensors: Fundamental Limits, Minimal Descriptions, and Algorithms Nisheeth Shrivastava, Raghuraman Mudumbai, Upamanyu Madhow, Subhash Suri (UCSB)
Data Compression Algorithms for Energy-Constrained Devices in Delay Tolerant Networks Christopher M. Sadler, Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University)
11:30-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Radio Propagation and Transport
Datalink Streaming in Wireless Sensor Networks Raghu K. Ganti, Praveen Jayachandran, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, and Haiyun Luo (UIUC)
ATPC: Adaptive Transmission Power Control for Wireless Sensor Shan Lin (University of Virginia), Tian He (University of Minnesota), Jingbin Zhang, Gang Zhou, Lin Gu, John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia)
Experimental Study of Concurrent Transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks Dongjin Son, Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC), John Heidemann (USC/ISI)
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:30 Storage and Abstractions
Abstractions for Safe Concurrent Programming in Networked Embedded Systems William P. McCartney, Nigamanth Sridhar (Cleveland State University)
Scalable Data Aggregation for Dynamic Events in Sensor Networks Kai-Wei Fan, Sha Liu, Prasun Sinha (The Ohio State University)
An Energy-Optimized Object Storage System for Memory-Constrained Sensor Devices Gaurav Mathur, Peter Desnoyers, Deepak Ganesan, Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
16:30-20:00 Demonstration and poster session
List of accepted demonstrations and posters
http://sensys.acm.org/2006/demo_poster.html
Friday, November 3
08:30-10:00 Architecture
CarTel: A Distributed Mobile Sensor Computing System Bret Hull, Vladimir Bychkovsky, Yang Zhang, Kevin Chen, Michel Goraczko, Allen Miu, Eugene Shih, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden (MIT/CSAIL)
MELETE: Supporting Concurrent Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks Yang Yu, Loren Rittle (Motorola Labs), Jason LeBrun (UCD), Vartika Bhandari (UIUC)
The Tenet Architecture for Tiered Sensor Networks Omprakash Gnawali (USC), Ben Greenstein (UCLA), Ki-Young Jang (USC), August Joki (UCLA), Jeongyeup Paek, Marcos Vieira (USC), Deborah Estrin (UCLA), Ramesh Govindan (USC), Eddie Kohler (UCLA)
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Media Access Control
Funneling-MAC: A Localized, Sink-Oriented MAC for Boosting Fidelity in Sensor Networks Gahng-Seop Ahn (Columbia University), Emiliano Miluzzo, Andrew T. Campbell (Dartmouth College), Se Gi Hong (Columbia University), Francesca Cuomo (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
X-MAC: A Short Preamble MAC Protocol for Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks Michael Buettner, Gary V. Yee, Eric Anderson, Richard Han (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Ultra-Low Duty Cycle MAC with Scheduled Channel Polling Wei Ye, Fabio Silva, John Heidemann (USC/ISI)
12:00-12:15 Best Talk Award and Closing
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SignetLab: Deployable Sensor Network Testbed and Management Tool Riccardo Crepaldi, Albert F Harris III, Alberto Scarpa, Andrea Zanella, Michele Zorzi (University of Padova)
An Eventual Consistent Wireless Light Control System Jeonghoon Kang (Korea Electronics Technology Institute), Alec Woo (Arch Rock), Junejae Yoo, Myunghyun Yoon (Korea Electronics Technology Institute)
Data Analysis Tools for Sensor-Based Science Stuart Ozer (Microsoft Research), Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins University), Jim Gray (Microsoft Research), Andreas Terzis, Razvan Musaloiu-E., Katalin Szlavecz, Josh Cogan, Randal Burns (Johns Hopkins University)
Data Collection in Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks using SCAR Cecilia Mascolo, Mirco Musolesi, Bence Pasztor (University College London)
cCAM: Ultra Compact, High Data-Rate Wireless Sensor Node with a Miniature Camera Chulsung Park, Pai H. Chou (UCI)
Using Grid Technologies to Optimise a Wireless Sensor Network for Flood Management Danny Hughes, Phil Greenwood, Geoff Coulson, Gordon Blair, Barry Porter, Paul Grace, Florian Pappenberger, Paul Smith, Keith Beven (Lancaster University)
A Funneling-MAC for High Performance Data Collection in Sensor Networks Gahng-Seop Ahn (Columbia University) Emiliano Miluzzo, Andrew T. Campbell (Dartmouth College)
A Storage-centric Camera Sensor Network Gaurav Mathur, Paul Chukiu, Peter Desnoyers, Deepak Ganesan, Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts)
Real-Time Volcanic Earthquake Localization Geoffrey Werner-Allen, Patrick Swieskowski, Matt Welsh (Harvard University)
Low Power, Low Cost, Wireless Camera Sensor Nodes For Human Detection Jason Schlessman, Jaechang Shim, Ikdong Kim, Yun Cheol Baek, Wayne Wolf (Princeton University)
A Unified Architecture for Flexible Radio Power Management in Wireless Sensor Networks Kevin Klues, Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu (Washington University)
A Self-Calibrating Distributed Acoustic Sensing Platform Lewis D Girod (MIT/CSAIL), Martin Lukac (UCLA), Vladimir Trifa (EPFL), Deborah Estrin (UCLA)
A Virtualizing OS Kernel for Wireless Sensor Networks Lin Gu, John A Stankovic (University of Virginia)
Flexible Hardware/Software Platform for Tracking Applications Junaid Ansari, José Sánchez, Marina Petrova, Janne Riihijärvi, Ossi Raivio, Krisakorn Rerkrai, Chirstine Jardak, Frank Oldewurtel, Mathias Wellens, Lili Wu, Petri Mähönen (RWTH Aachen University)
Simple Sensor Syndiciation Michael Colagrosso, Wade Simmons, Marianne Graham (Colorado School of Mines)
Responsive and Energy-Efficient Sensor Networking for Real Time Location Tracking Henoc Agbota, Mike Hazas (Lancaster University)
Demonstrating Distributed Signal Strength Location Estimation Neal Patwari (University of Utah), Alfred O. Hero (University of Michigan)
Sensing and Reproducing the Shapes of 3D Objects Using Claytronics Padmanabhan Pillai, Jason Campbell (Intel Research Pittsburgh)
Cascades: An Extensible Heterogeneous Sensor Networking Framework Phillip Sitbon, Nirupama Bulusu, Wu-Chi Feng (Portland State University)
LiteOS - A Lightweight Operating System for C++ Software Development in Sensor Networks Qing Cao, Tarek Abdelzaher (UIUC)
GRAIL: General Real-Time Adaptable Indoor Localization Yingying Chen (Rutgers University), Eiman Elnahrawy (Kordinate LLC), John-Austen Francisco, Konstantinos Kleisouris (Rutgers University), Xiaoyan Li (Lafayette College), Hongyi Xue (Rutgers University), Richard P. Martin (Rutgers University and Kordinate LLC)
A Hierarchical Location Directory Service Across Sensor and IP Networks Sangeeta Bhattacharya, Chien-Liang Fok, Chenyang Lu, Gruia-Catalin Roman (Washington University)
Software Radio Implementation of Short-range Wireless Standards for Sensor Networking Thomas Schmid, Tad Dreier, Mani B. Srivastava (UCLA)
The CarTel Mobile Sensor Computing System Vladimir L Bychkovsky, Kevin Chen, Michel Goraczko, Hongyi Hu, Bret W Hull, Allen K Miu, Eugene I Shih, Yang Zhang (MIT)
TOSDev: A Rapid Development Environment for TinyOS William P McCartney, Nigamanth Sridhar (Cleveland State University)
Step-wise Context Extraction in AoK Mule System Yuichi Uehara, Masato Mori, Nayuta Ishii (Tokyo Denki University), Yoh Shiraishi (The University of Tokyo) Yoshito Tobe (Tokyo Denki University)
SensorMap: A Web Site for Sensors World-Wide Suman Nath, Jie Liu, Jessica Miller, Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research), Andre Santanche (UNICAMP)
Mobility Centric Campus Area Sensor Network for Locality Specific Applications Mukundan Sridharan, Anish Arora, Rajiv Ramnath, Emre Ertin (The Ohio State University)
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Routing and Processing Multiple Aggregate Queries in Sensor Networks Niki Trigoni, Alexandre Guitton, Antonios Skordylis (University of London)
Rateless Codes for Data Dissemination in Sensor Networks Andrew Hagedorn, David Starobinski, Ari Trachtenberg (Boston University)
AMSecure: Secure Link-Layer Communication in TinyOS for IEEE 802.15.4- based Wireless Sensor Networks Anthony D Wood, John A Stankovic (University of Virginia)
Virtual Sensing Range Emiliano Miluzzo, Nicholas D Lane, Andrew T Campbell (Dartmouth College)
uScan: A Lightweight Two-Tier Global Sensing CoverageDesign Yu Gu, Tian He (University of Minnesota)
SkiScape Sensing Shane B. Eisenman (Columbia University), Andrew T. Campbell (Dartmouth College)
Channel Surfing: Defending WirelessSensor Networks from Jamming and Interference Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers University)
Energy Adaptation Techniques to Optimize Data Delivery in Store-and- Forward Sensor Networks Pei Zhang, Margaret Martonosi (Princeton Unviersity)
A Distributed Reliable Data Transport Strategy for Event Based Wireless Sensor Networks Yuyan Xue, Byrav Ramamurthy, Ying Lu (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
Lowering Radio Duty Cycle Through Temperature Compensated Timing Joakim Arfvidsson, Eric Park, Philip Levis (Stanford University)
Collaborative Scheduling of Event Types and Allocation of Rates for Wireless Sensor Nodes with Multiple Sensing Units Hidayet Ozgur Sanli, Hasan Cam (Arizona State University)
Kaizen: Improving Sensor Network Operating Systems James Horey, Jean-Charles Tournier, Arthur B Maccabe (University of New Mexico)
Achieving Realistic Sensing Area Modeling Joengmin Hwang, Tian He, Yongdae Kim (University of Minnesota)
Is Data-Centric Storage and Querying Scalable? Joon Ahn, Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC)
Understanding the Causes of Packet Delivery Success and Failure in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks Kannan Srinivasan (Stanford University), Prabal Dutta, Arsalan Tavakoli (UCB), Philip Levis (Stanford University)
WaveScope: A Signal-Oriented Data Stream Management System Lewis Girod, Kyle Jamieson, Yuan Mei, Ryan Newton, Stanislav Rost, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel Madden (MIT/CSAIL)
Comprehensive Monitoring of CO2 Sequestration in Subalpine Forest Ecosystems and its Relation to Global Warming Lynette L. Laffea, Russ K. Monson, Ryan Manning, Ashly Glasser, Richard Han (University of Colorado, Boulder), Steve Oncley, Jielun Sun, Sean Burns, Steve Semmer, John Militzer (NCAR)
TINX A Tiny Index Design for Flash Memory on Wireless Sensor Devices Ajay Mani, Manjunath B Rajashekhar, Philip Levis (Stanford University)
Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring Sukun Kim, Shamim Pakzad, David Culler, James Demmel, Gregory Fenves, Steve Glaser (UCB), Martin Turon (Crossbow)