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========================================= IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems June 18 - 20, 2006 San Francisco, California, USA =========================================

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The 2006 International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '06) will take place in San Francisco during June 18 - 20, 2006. DCOSS '06 will represent a merger of the DCOSS conference series and the IEEE International Workshops on Algorithms for Wireless, Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WMAN). The first DCOSS conference, held at Marina del Rey on June 30-July 1, 2005, featured high quality research papers and interesting invited and contributed poster/presentation sessions. DCOSS '06 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 be co-located with several closely related workshops, and 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.

SPONSORED BY

IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)

Held in co-operation with

ACM SIGARCH ACM SIGBED European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) IFIP WG 10.3

IMPORTANT DATES

May 15, 2006: Early registration for conference May 19, 2006: Hotel reservation at discounted rate

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2006

Workshop: Euro-American Workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (EAWMS)

Workshop: Mobility and Scalability in Wireless Sensor Networks (MSWSN)

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MONDAY, JUNE 19, 2006

7:30 am - 8:20 am Continental Breakfast

8:20 am - 8:30 am Opening Remarks Jose Rolim (Steering Committee Chair, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland) Viktor Prasanna (General Chair, Univ. of Southern California, USA) Phil Gibbons (Program Chair, Intel Research/CMU, USA)

8:30 am - 9:35 am KEYNOTE: "Structure Discovery and Information Brokerage in Sensor Networks" Leonidas Guibas (Stanford Univ., USA)

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9:50 am - 11:50 am Session 1: DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS & APPLICATIONS

* Evaluating Local Contributions to Global Performance in Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks Christopher Rozell, Don Johnson (Rice Univ., USA) * Roadmap Query for Sensor Network Assisted Navigation in Dynamic Environments Sangeeta Bhattacharya, Nuzhet Atay, Gazihan Alankus, Chenyang Lu, Burchan Bayazit, Gruia-Catalin Roman (Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA) * Stabilizing Consensus in Mobile Networks Dana Angluin, Michael J. Fischer, Hong Jiang (Yale Univ.) * When Birds Die: Making Population Protocols Fault-Tolerant Carole Delporte-Gallet (Universite Paris); Hugues Fauconnier (LIAFA, Paris); Rachid Guerraoui (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)); Eric Ruppert (York Univ.) * Stochastically Consistent Caching and Dynamic Duty Cycling for Erratic Sensor Sources Shanzhong Zhu, Wei Wang, Chinya Ravishankar (Univ. of California at Riverside, USA) * Distributed Model-Free Stochastic Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks Daniel Yagan, Chen Khong Tham (National Univ. of Singapore)

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1:15 pm - 3:15 pm Session 2: PROGRAMMING SUPPORT & MIDDLEWARE

* Agimone: Middleware Support for Seamless Integration of Sensor and IP Networks Gregory Hackmann, Chien-Liang Fok, Gruia-Catalin Roman, Chenyang Lu (Washington Univ. St. Louis) * Gossip Based Multi-Channel Reprogramming for Sensor Networks Limin Wang, Sandeep Kulkarni (Michigan State Univ.) * The Virtual Pheromone Communication Primitive Leo Szumel, John Owens (Univ. of California at Davis) * Logical Neighborhoods: A Programming Abstraction for Wireless Sensor Networks Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco (Politecnico di Milano) * Y-Threads: Supporting Concurrency in Wireless Sensor Networks Christopher Nitta, Raju Pandey, Yann Ramin (Univ. of California at Davis) * Comparative Analysis of Push-Pull Query Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks Shyam Kapadia, Bhaskar Krishnamachari (Univ. of Southern California)

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3:30 pm - 5:30 pm Session 3: DATA AGGREGATION & DISSEMINATION

* Using Data Aggregation to Prevent Traffic Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks William Conner, Tarek Abdelzaher, Klara Nahrstedt (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) * Efficient and Robust Data Dissemination using Limited Extra Network Knowledge Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (Computer Technology Institute); Athanasios Kinalis, Sotiris Nikoletseas (Univ. of Patras and Computer Technology Institute) * Distance-Sensitive Information Brokerage in Sensor Networks Stefan Funke (Max-Planck-Institut f. Informatik); Leonidas Guibas, An Nguyen, Yusu Wang (Stanford) * Efficient In-Network Processing through Local Ad-hoc Information Coalescence Onur Savas, Murat Alanyali,Venkatesh Saligrama (Boston Univ.) * Distributed Optimal Estimation from Relative Measurements for Localization and Time Synchronization Prabir Barooah (UCSB); Neimar Da Silva (Federal Univ. of Rio de Janerio); Joao Hespanha (UCSB) * GIST: Group-Independent Spanning Tree for Data Aggregation in Dense Sensor Networks Lujun Jia, Guevara Noubir, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Ravi Sundaram (Northeastern Univ.)

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5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Poster Session and Reception Chair: Jim Reich (Palo Alto Research Center, USA)

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TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2006

8:00 am - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 9:35 am KEYNOTE: "In-network Adaptation of Sensor Node Location and Energy" William J. Kaiser (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)

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9:50 am - 10:50 am Session 4: SECURITY

* Distributed User Access Control in Sensor Networks Haodong Wang, Qun Li (College of William and Mary) * Locating Compromised Sensor Nodes through Incremental Hashing Authentication Youtao Zhang (Univ. of Pittsburgh); Jun Yang, Lingling Jin (UC Riverside); Weijia Li (Univ. of Pittsburgh) * COTA: A Robust Multi-hop Localization Scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks Yawen Wei, Zhen Yu, Yong Guan (Iowa State Univ.)

10:50 am - 11:50 am Session 5: INFORMATION FUSION

* Contour Approximation in Sensor Networks Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Sorabh Gandhi (UCSB); John Hershberger (Mentor Graphics); Subhash Suri (UCSB) * A Distortion Aware Scheduling Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks Periklis Liaskovitis, Curt Schurgers (UCSD) * Optimal Placement and Selection of Camera Network Nodes for Target Localization Ali Ercan, Danny Yang, Abbas El Gamal, Leonidas Guibas (Stanford)

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1:15 pm - 3:15 pm Session 6: LIFETIME MAXIMIZATION

* An Optimal Data Propagation Algorithm for Maximizing the Lifespan of Sensor Networks Aubin Jarry, Pierre Leone, Olivier Powell, Jose Rolim (Univ. of Geneva) * Lifetime Maximization under Connectivity and k-Coverage Constraints in Wireless Sensor Networks Wei Mo, Daji Qiao, Zhengdao Wang (Iowa State Univ.) * Network Power Scheduling for TinyOS Applications Barbara Hohlt, Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley) * Algorithms for Scheduling Wireless Sensor Networks with Rate and Duty-Cycle Constraints over Interference Channels Rajgopal Kannan, Shuangqing Wei (Louisiana State Univ.) * MobiRoute: Routing towards a Mobile Sink for Improving Lifetime in Sensor Networks Jun Luo, Jacques Panchard, Michal Piorkowski, Matthias Grossglauser, Jean-Pierre Hubaux (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)) * SenCar: An Energy Efficient Data Gathering Mechanism for Large Scale Multihop Sensor Networks Ming Ma, Yuanyuan Yang (State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook)

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3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Session 7: LOCALIZATION

* A Distributed Linear Least Squares Method for Precise Localization with Low Complexity in Wireless Sensor Networks Frank Reichenbach (University of Rostock) * Consistency-Based On-line Localization in Sensor Networks Jessica Feng, Miodrag Potkonjak (University of California at Los Angeles) * The Robustness of Localization Algorithms to Signal Strength Attacks: A Comparative Study Yingying Chen, Konstantin Kleisouris, Xiaoyan Li, Wade Trappe, Richard Martin (Rutgers University)

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WORKSHOP PROGRAMS

================================================================ EURO-AMERICAN WORKSHOP ON MIDDLEWARE FOR SENSOR NETWORKS (EAWMS) ================================================================

SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2006

8:00 am - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 9:15 am Opening Remarks: Stefan Fischer (Chair)

9:15 am - 10:30 am Session 1

* FABRIC: Towards Data Type-centric Middleware Synthesis Dennis Pfisterer, Horst Hellbr?ck, Stefan Fischer (University of L?beck, Germany) * Rule-Oriented Programming for Wireless Sensor Networks Kirsten Terfloth, Georg Wittemburg, Joschen Schiller (Freie Universitdt Berlin, Germany) Discussion

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10:45 am - 12:00 pm Session 2

* Transiently Shared Tuple Spaces for Sensor Networks Amy L. Murphy (University of Lugano, Switzerland), Gian Pietro Picco (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) * Sensor Network Middleware for Managing a Cross-Layer Architecture Christophe J. Merlin, Wendi B. Heinzelman (University of Rochester, USA) Discussion -------------------------------------------------- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm LUNCH (on your own) --------------------------------------------------

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm Session 3

* Frugal Mobile Objects Benoit Garbinato (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Rachid Guerraoui, Jarle Hulaas, Maxime Monod, Jesper H. Spring (EPFL, Switzerland) * Resource-Aware Service Architecture for Collaboration of Sensor Nodes Jan Blumenthal, Dirk Timmermann (University of Rostock, Germany) Discussion

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2:30 pm - 3:45 pm Session 4

* Distributed Mining of Spatio-Temporal Event-Pattern in Sensor Networks Kay Rfmer (ETHZ, Switzerland) * Middleware and Simulation Support for WSN Motion Control Agorithm Design and Analysis Norbert Luttenberger, Jochen Koberstein (University of Kiel, Germany) Discussion

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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Session 5

* SensorBase.org - a Centralized Repository to Slog Sensor Network Data Kevin Chang, Nathan Yau, Mark Hansen, Deborah Estrin (University of California at Los Angeles, USA) * Pervasive Grids: Integrating Sensor Networks into the Fixed Grid Geoff Coulson (Lancaster University, England) Discussion Future Steps

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SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 2006

8:00 am - 8:45 am Continental Breakfast

8:45 am - 9:00 am Opening Remarks Christian Schindelhaer (Chair)

9:00 am - 11:00 am Session 1: MOBILITY * Invited Talk: Keith J. O'Hara (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Mobility and Pervasiveness in Physical Computing Systems joint work with Tucker Balch (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) * Mobility Management in Sensor Networks Muneeb Ali (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan), Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden), Zartash Afzal Uzmi (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) * Autonomous Mobile Networks Overlaid on Public Transportation Networks G. Sampath (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA), J. TenEyck (Marist College, Poughkeepsie, USA)

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11:15 am - 12:30 pm Session 2: SCALABILITY

* Invited Talk: Sándor Fekete (Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany) Algorithmic Aspects of Large Sensor Networks joint work with Alexander Krüller (Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany), Dennis Pfisterer, Stefan Fischer (University of Lübeck, Germany) * Intelligent Hierarchical Cluster-Based Routing Abdul W. Matin, Sajid Hussain (Jodrey School of Computer Science, Wolfville, Canada)

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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Session 3: LIFETIME

* Invited Talk: Sotiris Nikoletseas (Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece) "Adaptive Power Saving for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks with Incremental Deployment" * Invited Talk: Jun Luo (School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland) "Mobility to Improve the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks: A Theoretical Framework" joint work with Jean-Pierre Hubaux (School of Computer and Communication Sciences, Lausanne, Switzerland)

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4:15 pm - 5:30 pm PANEL DISCUSSION

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