[Tccc] CFP: PWSN 2012 - May 18, 2012 Hangzhou, China (in conjunction with DCOSS 2012)

Vasos Vassiliou vasosv
Mon Feb 20 13:24:03 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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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

Scope
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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.

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

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

Technical Program Committee
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* Fernando BOAVIDA (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
* David BOYLE (Tyndall, Ireland)
* Chiara BURATTI (University of Bologna, Italy)
* Claudio GEYER (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
* Savvas GITZENIS (University of Thessaly,Greece)
* Chun-Chieh HSIAO (Lunghua University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)
* Abdelmajid KHELIL (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany)
* Rogerio de LEMOS (University of Kent, UK)
* Ren Ping LIU (CSIRO ICT Center, Australia)
* Edith NGAI (Uppsala University, Sweden)
* Sotiris NIKOLETSEAS (University of Patras, Greece)
* Christos PANAYIOTOU (University of Cyprus)
* Iain PHILLIPS (Loughborough University, UK)
* Joel RODRIGUES (University of Beira Interior, Portugal)
* Jens SCHMITT (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
* Hans SCHOTTEN (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
* Seyed SHAHRESTANI (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
* Cormac SREENAN (University College Cork, Ireland)
* Jorge SA SILVA (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
* Attila VID?CS (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
* Thiemo VOIGT (SICS, Sweden)
* Tanveer ZIA (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

-- 
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
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