Dear Colleague,

Enclosed below please find a Preliminary Announcement and Call for Papers for the First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (to be held in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2002) at Atlanta on September 28, 2002.

For complete information about the workshop, please visit the websites at:

http://wsna02.cs.uga.edu http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/mobicom/2002/ for MobiCom 2002

We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested.

Very truly yours,

Prof. C. S. Raghavendra University of Southern California

Prof. Krishna Sivalingam Washington State University

Workshop Co-Chairs

========================================================================== ACM MobiCom 2002 Workshop

WSNA 2002

First ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2002 September 28, 2002

Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE (pending)

URLs: http://wsna02.cs.uga.edu http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/mobicom/2002/ for MobiCom 2002

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2002

For more information, please contact the Workshop Co-Chairs: Prof. Raghavendra (raghu@usc.edu) and Prof. Sivalingam (krishna@wsu.edu) =========================================================================

SCOPE

Tremendous technological advances have been made in the development of low-cost sensor devices equipped with wireless network interfaces. The design of large-scale sensor networks interconnecting several hundred to a few thousand sensor nodes has attracted recent research attention. The sensors monitor various types of information such as temperature, pressure, chemicals, etc. and/or transmit voice and video data. Such sensor networks may be used for applications spanning several domains including military, medical, industrial, and home networks. Some of the key challenges deal with scalability of network protocols to large number of nodes, design of simple and efficient protocols for different network operations, design of power-conserving protocols, design of security mechanisms and protocols, design of data handling techniques including data querying, data mining, data fusion and data dissemination, and development of exciting new applications that exploit the potential of wireless sensor networks.

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and technologists to present their contributions as technical papers related to wireless sensor networks. The issues and challenges for the development of wireless sensor networks not only encompass a broad spectrum of research topics but also involves a way to envision the evolution of a new breed of multi-disciplinary wireless network applications.

TOPICS

Papers are solicited in all research and applied areas related to wireless sensor networks, which include but are not limited to:

* Self-Organizing Network Architectures

* Routing and medium access control protocols

* Power-aware protocol design

* Low-power sensor design

* Applications of sensor networks

* Mechanisms, protocols and algorithms for Network Security

* Data Compression and Data Fusion

* Localization techniques

* Data Querying and Data Dissemination

* Collaborative Signal Processing

* Quality-of-Service

* Operating system issues

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should prepare a PostScript or Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their paper. No other format will be accepted. Instructions for submission are available at http://wsna02.cs.uga.edu.

Papers must meet the following restrictions:

- The paper must be original material that has not been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal.

- Papers should be no longer than *12 pages* (two column is acceptable), in font no smaller than 10 points. (Note that ACCEPTED papers, when formatted for the proceedings, may not exceed *10 pages* in font no smaller than 9 points).

- The paper should fit properly on US Letter-sized paper (8.5x11 inches)

- PostScript version 2 or later, or Portable Document Format (PDF)

- Use only Computer Modern or standard Adobe printer fonts (i.e., Courier, Times, Roman, or Helvetica)

- Other fonts may be used, but must be included in the PostScript/PDF file

- The paper must be formatted for b/w printers and not color printers.

All contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be available as part of the proceedings, at the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submissions due: June 1, 2002 * Notification of acceptance: July 26, 2002 * Final manuscript due: August 15, 2002 * Workshop date: September 28, 2002

Note: Papers submitted to Mobicom 2002, may be submitted to this workshop, AFTER Mobicom 2002 paper acceptance decisions are finalized (expected end of June 2002).

ORGANIZATION

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS -----------------

Prof. C. S. Raghavendra, Professor Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-2562. Telephone: 213-740-9133 Email: raghu@usc.edu

Prof. Krishna Sivalingam, Associate Professor School of Electrical Engg. & Computer Science 102 EME Building Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2752. Phone: 509 335 3220 Email: krishna@wsu.edu www.eecs.wsu.edu/~krishna

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------

* Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research) * Azzedine Boukerche (University of North Texas) * Erdal Cayirci (Georgia Institute of Technology) * Surendar Chandra (University of Georgia) * David Culler (UC Berkeley) * Deborah Estrin (UCLA) * John Heidemann (ISI) * Bhaskar Krishnamachari (Cornell) * Sri Kumar (DARPA) * Anthony LaMarca (Intel) * Daniel Mosse (University of Pittsburgh) * Stephen Olariu (Old Dominion University) * Hilarie Orman * Parmesh Ramanathan (University of Wisconsin, Madison) * Jim Reich (Xerox PARC) * Chris Rose (Rutgers University) * Sumit Roy (University of Washington) * Suresh Singh (Portland State University) * Mani Srivastava (UCLA) * Yu-Chee Tseng (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan) * Terry Todd (McMaster University) * Michele Zorzi (Universita` di Ferrara)

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS --------------------

* Erdal Cayirci (Georgia Institute of Technology) * Surendar Chandra (University of Georgia)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR -----------------------

* Surendar Chandra (University of Georgia)