[Tccc] CFP: PWSN 2012 4th International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor Networks

Vasos Vassiliou vasosv
Thu Feb 9 07:47:15 EST 2012


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CALL FOR PAPERS

PWSN 2012
4th International Workshop on Performance Control in Wireless Sensor 
Networks
http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2012/

May 18 2012, Hangzhou, China

In conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Conference on Distributed 
Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS '12)
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Wireless sensor networks are currently the subject of intense research 
and many prototype installations are currently investigated. However, 
most of the existing sensor network installations have in common that 
they are not considered time critical. No immediate action has to be 
undertaken as a response to the received data. In contrast, many 
envisioned future application areas of wireless sensor networks (such as 
plant automation and control, traffic management, medical applications, 
emergency solutions) require immediate and guaranteed actions. In such 
environments, data has to be transported reliably and in time through 
the sensor network towards the end user. To make the networking task 
more complex, in many applications the end user or the controlling 
intelligence is located remotely (e.g., remote monitoring, supervision 
and surveillance applications), and the wireless sensor network 
interworks with other networks (e.g., fixed infrastructure cellular, 
Internet). Due to the lack of appropriate models, components and 
protocols, it is currently very difficult to construct and operate a 
wireless sensor network with performance guarantees. Thus, the 
commercial success of wireless sensor networks in many application areas 
is unsure unless this particular problem is understood and solved.

The PWSN workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners 
working on performance issues within wireless sensor networks. The 
workshop intends to examine research challenges associated with 
achieving dependability in WSNs, share experiences from real-life 
deployment of dependable sensor networks, discuss application-dependent 
wireless sensor-actuator design methodologies, illustrate dependable 
MAC, network and transport protocols, and in general, explore issues of 
reliability in WSNs.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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* Architectures: real-time systems, critical network architectures
* Applications: Critical applications, application requirements, novel 
applications and real-world deployments
* Models: Traffic models, channel models, mathematical models of network 
performance
* MAC protocols: MAC protocols with deterministic behavior, MAC 
protocols to balance forwarding performance and energy consumption.
* Routing and topology control: Methods to control network topology, 
services for time, location, and power management, topology robustness, 
reliability and fault tolerance
* Data transport: Control of data transport delay and reliability, 
methods to improve data forwarding performance in sensor networks, data 
storage, retrieval, and processing.
* Operating systems: Performance optimization and control of sensor 
network operating systems.
* Middleware: Middleware/frameworks providing performance guarantees for 
sensor network applications.
* Security: System security and data integrity methods, Impact of 
security features on network performance.


Important dates:
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Paper Submission deadline:     March 10, 2012
Acceptance Notification:     April 5, 2012
Camera Ready Paper:         April 20, 2012
Workshop date:             May 18, 2012


Workshop Co-Chairs
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Vasos Vassiliou - University of Cyprus
Lars Wolf - Technical University of Braunschweig
Salil Kanhere - University of New South Wales

Paper Submission
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Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently 
under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been 
previously published. All submissions should be written in English with 
a minimum paper length of six (6) and maximum of eight (8) printed pages 
(in Two-Column IEEE Conference Format), including text, figures, and 
references.
Papers should be submitted through 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pwsn2012
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For more information or questions, please email the workshop chairs or 
visit the workshop website:  http://www.netrl.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pwsn2012/

-- 
Vasos Vassiliou, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Networks Research Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
University of Cyprus

Tel.: +357 22892750
Fax:  +357 22892701
Email:vasosv - a-t - cs.ucy.ac.cy
url: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~vasosv






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