(Apologies if you receive this call multiple times.) *********************************************************************** CALL FOR POSTERS and DEMOS

*** NEW DEADLINE: July 16, 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) ************************************************************************

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 Sunday July 16 2006, 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@ece.neu.edu cedric.westphal@nokia.com

Notification of Poster/Demo decisions: August 7, 2006. Accepted Poster/Demo Presenters MUST register by August 31, 2006.

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