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1st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Thursday, June 30 - Friday, July 1 2005 Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, California, USA
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
In cooperation with: ACM SIGARCH ACM SIGBED European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) IFIP WG 10.3
Supported by: US National Science Foundation (NSF) Microsoft Research
================================= DCOSS 2005 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION =================================
DCOSS 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 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.
DCOSS 05 received 85 high quality submissions, of which 26 were accepted, as a result of a thorough review by the Program Committee.
========================================================= DCOSS 2005 Advance Program
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2005
8:20-8:30 OPENING REMARKS Jose' Rolim, General Chair Viktor Prasanna, Program Chair
8:30-9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Algorithmic Problems in Ad Hoc Networks Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA
9:30-9:50 CONTRIBUTED POSTER SESSION OVERVIEW Chair: Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece *** for the list of the 10 accepted posters see below ***
9:50-10:10 Break
10:10-12:40 SESSION 1: Algorithms
Distributed Proximity Maintenance in Ad Hoc Mobile Networks Jie Gao, Leonidas Guibas, An Nguyen (Stanford University, USA)
Adaptive Triangular Deployment Algorithm for Unattended Mobile Sensor Networks Ming Ma, Yuanyuan Yang (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
An Adaptive Blind Algorithm for Energy Balanced Data Propagation in Wireless Sensor Networks Pierre Leone, Jose Rolim (University of Geneva, Switzerland), Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and CTI, Greece)
Sensor Localization in an Obstructed Environment Chen Wang, Li Xiao, Rong Jin (Michigan State University, USA)
Stably computable properties of network graphs Dana Angluin, James Aspnes, Melody Chan, Michael J. Fischer, Hong Jiang, Rene Peralta (Yale University, USA)
Routing Explicit Side Information for Data Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks Huiyu Luo, Gregory Pottie (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
12:40-13:40 Lunch Break (on your own)
13:40-16:10 SESSION 2: Systems
Database-Centric Programming for Wide-Area Sensor Systems Shimin Chen, Phil Gibbons, Suman Nath (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Using Clustering Information for Sensor Network Localization Haowen Chan, Mark Luk, Adrian Perrig (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Macro-programming Wireless Sensor Networks using Kairos Ramakrishna Gummadi, Omprakash Gnawali, Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California, USA)
Sensor Network Calculus - A Framework for Worst Case Analysis Jens Schmitt (University of Technology, Kaiserslautern, Germany), Utz Roedig (University College Cork, Ireland)
Design and Comparison of Lightweight Group Management Strategies in EnviroSuit Liqian Luo, Tarek Abdelzaher, Tian He, John Stankovic (University of Virginia, USA)
Design of Adaptive Overlays for Multi-scale Communication in Sensor Networks Santashil PalChaudhuri (Rice University, USA), Rajnish Kumar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Richard Baraniuk, David B. Johnson (Rice University, USA)
16:10-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 PANEL SESSION From Sensor Networks to Intelligence Moderator: Mani Chandy, California Institute of Technology, USA
17:30-19:30 INVITED POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION Distributed Sensor Systems in the Real World Chair: Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA *** for the 11 confirmed invited posters see below ***
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2005
8:30-9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Five Challenges in Wide-area Sensor Systems Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, USA
9:30-9:50 Break
9:50-12:20 SESSION 3: Applications
Fault-Tolerant Self-Organization In Sensor Networks Yi Zou, Krishnendu Chakrabarty (Duke University, USA)
Thermal-Aware Routing for Implanted Sensor Networks Qinghui Tang, Naveen Tummala, Sandeep Gupta (Arizona State University, USA), Loren Schwiebert (Wayne State University, USA)
Multiresolutional Filtering of a Class of Dynamic Multiscale System Subject to Colored State Equation Noise Peiling Cui (Tsinghua University, P.R. China), Quan Pan (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China), GuiZeng Wang (Tsinghua University, P.R. China), Junhong Li, Jianfeng Cui (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China)
Design and Analysis of Wave Sensing Schedules for Object-Tracking Applications Shansi Ren, Qun Li, Haining Wang, Xiaodong Zhang (College of William and Mary, USA)
Multiple Controlled Mobile Elements (Data Mules) for Data Collection in Sensor Networks David Jea, Arun Somasundara, Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Analysis of Gradient-based Routing Protocols in Sensor Networks Jabed Faruque, Konstantinos Psounis, Ahmed Helmy (University of Southern California, USA)
12:20-13:20 Lunch Break (on your own)
13:20-14:20 KEYNOTE ADDRESS Challenges in programming sensor nets Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research, USA
14:20 - 14:40 Break
14:40 - 17:40 SESSION 4: Algorithms
A Local Facility Location Algorithm for Sensor Networks Denis Krivitski, Assaf Schuster (Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel), Ran Wolff (University of Maryland at Baltimore County, USA)
jWebDust: A Java-based Generic Application Environment for Wireless Sensor Networks Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Giorgos Mylonas, Sotiris Nikoletseas (University of Patras and Computer Technology Institute, Greece)
Analysis of Target Detection Performance for Wireless Sensor Networks Qing Cao,Ting Yan, John Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Virginia, USA)
Collaborative Sensing Using Sensors of Uncoordinated Mobility Kuang-Ching Wang (Clemson University, USA), Parmesh Ramanathan (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA)
Multi-query optimization for sensor networks Niki Trigoni (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK), Yong Yao, Johannes Gehrke (Cornell University, USA), Rajmohan Rajaraman (Northeastern University, USA), Alan Demers (Cornell University, USA)
Distributed Energy-Efficient Hierarchical Clustering for Wireless Sensor Networks Ping Ding, JoAnne Holliday, Aslihan Celik (Santa Clara University, USA)
Distributed Connected Sensor Cover Algorithms for Lattice and Random Deployment of Nodes in Dense Sensor Networks Amitabha Ghosh, Sajal K. Das (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Infrastructure-Establishment from Scratch in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks Stefan Funke, Nikola Milosavljevic (Stanford University, USA)
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DCOSS 05 Invited Poster/Presentation Session
The conference will also include a special plenary session with selected presentations and posters from industry and academia. The focus of this session will be on practical applications of sensor systems and experience with real deployments. This will include a short overview talk, followed by audience interactions with the speakers in a "walk-up-and-talk" setting.
The following 11 posters have been now confirmed:
SensorNet Operational Prototypes: Building Wide-Area Interoperable Sensor Networks Bryan L. Gorman, Ronald W. Lee, Mallikarjun Shankar, and Cyrus M. Smith Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Wireless Technologies for Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM)in Petroleum Plants Kannan Srinivasan, Moise Ndoh, Hong Nie, Helen Xia, Kadambari Kaluri, Diane Ingraham, National Research Council of Canada, Cape Breton University
Networked Active Sensing of Structures Krishna Chintalapudi, John Caffrey, Ramesh Govindan, Erik Johnson, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Sami Masri, Gaurav Sukhatme University of Southern California
Project ExScal A. Arora et al. Ohio State University
NetRad: Distributed, Collaborative and Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere. Calibration and Initial Benchmarks Michael Zink, David Westbrook, Eric Lyons, Kurt Hondl, Jim Kurose, Francesc Junyent, Luko Krnan and V. Chandrasekar U.Mass Amherst
A Service-Oriented Architecture for Sensor Networks Feng Zhao and Jie Liu Microsoft Research
Wireless Sensors: Oyster Habitat Monitoring in the Bras d'Or Lakes Diane Ingraham, Rod Beresford, Kadambari Kaluri, Moise Ndoh, Kannan Srinivasan Cape Breton University, National Research Council of Canada
Heavy Industry Applications of Sensornets Philip Buonadonna, Jasmeet Chhabra, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Intel Research
Title: TBA Mukund Halthore
Title: CENS Systems Deployments (to be finalized) William Kaiser, UCLA
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DCOSS 05 Contributed Poster Session
Following an open call, the following 10 posters were selected for presentation at DCOSS 05:
Ayushman: A Wireless Sensor Network Based Health Monitoring Infrastructure and Testbed K. Venkatasubramanian, S. K. S. Gupta
Studying Upper Bounds on Sensor Network Lifetime by Genetic Clustering Min Qin, Roger Zimmermann
Sensor Network Coverage Restoration Nitin Kumar, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Vana Kalogeraki
A Biologically-Inspired Data-Centric Communication Protocol for Sensor Networks Naoki Wakamiya, Yoshitaka Ohtaki, Masayuki Murata, Makoto Imase
RAGOBOT: A new hardware platform for research Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks Jonathan Friedman, David Lee, Ilias Tsigkogiannis, Parixit Aghera, Advait Dixit, Sophia Wong, Aman Kansal, William Kaiser, Mani Srivastava
Power Conserving for Quality Controlled Sensor Networks Hyo Jong Lee
Meteorological Phenomena Measurement System Using the Wireless Network Kyungbae Chang, Seungwoo Shin, Iljoo Shimr, Gwitae Park
An Architecture Model for Supporting Power Saving Services for Mobile Ad-hoc Wireless Networks Nam-Soo Kim, Beongku An, Do-Hyeon Kim
Distributed Recovery Units for Demodulation in Wireless Sensor Networks Mostafa Borhani, Vafa Sedghi
Integration and Control of Building Systems using Embedded Web Server and Wireless LAN Kyung-Bae Chang, Il-Joo Shim, Tae-Kook Kim, Gwi-Tae Park
============================== VENUE ==============================
Located in Marina del Rey, a beach side community that is the home of the world's largest man-made harbor, the meeting venue can be easily reached from the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Most of the world famous attractions of the greater Los Angeles area - including the Santa Monica mountains, the Getty Center, Hollywood, Venice Beach, Disneyland, and Universal Studios can be easily reached from the Marina.
============================== HOTEL INFORMATION ==============================
MARINA DEL REY MARRIOTT 4100 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292 Phone: 1-310-301-3000 Fax: 1-310-448-4870 Make reservations directly with Marriott reservations at 1 (800) 228-9290, by June 8, 2005.
============================== REGISTRATION INFORMATION ==============================
Advance registration is due April 30, 2005. For more information, visit http://www.dcoss.org/dcoss05/registration.php
================================================ STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: Deadline May 10, 2005 ================================================
The 2005 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '05) announces approximately 25 student travel grants (funded by the National Science Foundation). The grants will provide reimbursement of up to $600 for airfare, 2 nights of hotel accommodations, and meals. For more information visit http://www.dcoss.org/dcoss05/students.php.
============================== DCOSS 2005 ORGANIZATION ==============================
GENERAL CHAIR Jose Rolim University of Geneva Switzerland
VICE GENERAL CHAIR Sotiris Nikoletseas University of Patras and CTI Greece
PROGRAM CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna University of Southern California USA
PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS
Algorithms: Paul Spirakis, CTI and University of Patras, Greece
Applications: Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA
Systems: Matt Welsh, Harvard University, USA
PUBLICITY CHAIR Wendi Heinzelman University of Rochester USA
PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Erdal Cayirci Yeditepe University and Istanbul Technical University Turkey
Sanjay Jha Univeristy of New South Wales Australia
DCOSS STEERING COMMITTEE
Josep Diaz, UPC Barcelona, Spain Deborah Estrin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Phil Gibbons, Intel Research, Pittsburgh, USA Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece Christos Papadimitriou, University of California, Berkeley, USA Kris Pister, University of California, Berkeley, and Dust, Inc., USA Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland (CHAIR)