[Tccc] *** DCOSS 2012: Call for Participation - Early Registration Deadline is 30 April ***

Rob Miller rdmiller14
Sun Apr 29 23:36:57 EDT 2012


**** DCOSS 2012:  Call for Participation ****

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*Note:  Early Registration Deadline is 30 April, 2012.*

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*Keynote Wednesday May 16, 2012*

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[image: Kung Yao]*Kung Yao*

Distinguished Professor ?

Electrical Engineering Department

University of California, Los Angeles, United States





*Title: Beamforming for DOA and Localization in Sensor Networks*

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Abstract: Sensor networks have been proposed for various commercial,
industrial, scientific, and military applications.  In this seminar, we
consider three different classes of acoustical beamforming arrays.  The
first array uses four uniformly-spaced hearing aid microphones to perform a
steerable array based on the maximum-energy criterion for hearing aid
applications.  The second array uses randomly distributed microphones to
perform wideband beamforming based on a maximum eigenvector array for
vehicle detection, localization, and signal enhancement.    The third array
is based on the Approximate Maximum-Likelihood (AML) criterion to estimate
single or multiple acoustic sources for near-field localization and
far-field direction-of-arrival estimations.  This array is capable of
various beamforming and nulling operations.  Several wired and wireless
experimental systems based on the three classes of arrays have been
implemented for various applications.   We will also present some recent
bio-complexity applications to field monitoring, detection, and
localization of birds and animals.  Various sound demonstrations will also
be given.



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Kung Yao received the B.S.E. (Highest Honors), M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering all from Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.  Then
he was a NAS-NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley.  Presently, he is a
Distinguished Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA.
In 1985-1988, he served as an Assistant Dean of the School of Engineering
and Applied Science (SEAS) at UCLA.  His research and professional
interests include sensor networks, communication theory and system, and
signal/array processing.  Dr. Yao received the 1993 IEEE Signal Processing
Society Senior Award in VLSI Signal Processing and the 2008 Joint IEEE
Communication Theory Society ? IEEE Information Theory Society Paper
Award.  He is the co-editor of a two volume series of an IEEE Reprint Book
on "High Performance VLSI Signal Processing," IEEE Press, 1997.  He is the
co-author of the book ?Detection and Estimation for Communication and Radar
Systems,? to be published by Cambridge Press, 2012.  Dr. Yao is an IEEE
Life Fellow.  He has served as associate editors of various sensor
networking and communication journals and also organized various sessions
in these topics.  He has been the PI and Co-PI of various government and
industrial sensor networking and communication research grants in recent
years.  He is a research faculty in the National Science Foundation funded
Center on Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA and the co-PI of the
Public Safety Network Systems Laboratory.
*Keynote Thursday May 17,  2012*

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*Ivan Stojmenovic*

Professor - University of Ottawa,* *Canada**





*Title: IoT/CPS with sensors and robots: Actuation challenges*

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Abstract: This talk discusses actuation as one of important tools in the
future applications of Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems
architectures. Various existing models for wireless sensor and actuator
networks are elaborated. It then concentrates on the network layer issues
in wireless sensor and sensor-actuator networks. Coordination between
sensors and robots, and robot to robot coordination are then covered with
some concrete problem formulations. These include robot dispersion,
communication aspects of robot coordination, robot task allocation, and
sensor placement and relocation to improve sensing area coverage.



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Ivan Stojmenovic received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics. He held regular
and visiting positions in Serbia, Japan, USA, Canada, France, Mexico,
Spain, UK (as Chair in Applied Computing at the University of Birmingham),
Hong Kong, Brazil, Taiwan, and China, and is Full Professor at the
University of Ottawa, Canada and Adjunct Professor at the University of
Novi Sad, Serbia. He published over 300 different papers, and edited seven
books on wireless, ad hoc, sensor and actuator networks and applied
algorithms with Wiley. He is editor of over dozen journals, editor-in-chief
of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (from January
2010), and founder and editor-in-chief of three journals (MVLSC, IJPEDS and
AHSWN). Stojmenovic is one of about 250 computer science researchers with
h-index at least 50, has top h-index in Canada for mathematics, and has
>11000 citations. He received four best paper awards and the Fast Breaking
Paper for October 2003, by Thomson ISI ESI. He is recipient of the Royal
Society Research Merit Award, UK. He is Tsinghua 1000 Plan Distinguished
Professor (2012-5). He is elected to IEEE Fellow status (Communications
Society, class 2008), and is IEEE CS Distinguished Visitor 2010-12.
He received Excellence in Research Award of the University of Ottawa 2009.
Stojmenovic chaired and/or organized >60 workshops and conferences, and
served in >200 program committees. He was program co-chair at IEEE PIMRC
2008, IEEE AINA-07, IEEE MASS-04&07, EUC-05&08-10, AdHocNow08, IFIP WSAN08,
WONS-05, MSN-05&06, ISPA-05&07, founded workshop series at IEEE MASS,
ICDCS, DCOSS, WoWMoM, ACM Mobihoc, IEEE/ACM CPSCom, FCST, MSN, and is/was
Workshop Chair at IEEE INFOCOM 2011, IEEE MASS-09, ACM Mobihoc-07&08
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*Conference Program Day #1*

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*Wednesday, May 16,  2012 *



*8:00am ? 8:45am*       Registration



*8:45am ? 9:00am*       Opening remarks



*9:00am ? 10:00am*     Keynote Address: ?Beamforming for DOA and
Localization in Sensor Networks,? *Kung Yao, UCLA, USA*



*10am ? 10:20am*        Break



*10:20am ? 12:00pm*   *Mobility, Data Collection, and Network Lifetime
Maximization*

?       Should I stay or should I go? Maximizing Lifetime with Relays
*Brian Phelan, Peter Terlecky, Amotz Bar-Noy, Theodore Brown, Dror Rawitz*

?       Network Lifetime Maximization in Delay-Tolerant Sensor Networks
with A Mobile Sink
*Zichuan Xu, Weifa Liang, Yinlong Xu,*

?       Achieving High Lifetime and Low Delay in Very Large Sensor Networks
using Mobile Sinks
*Wint Yi Poe, Michael Beck, Jens Schmitt*

?       Efficient Mobile Data Collection with Mobile Collect
*Navid Hassanzadeh, Olaf Landsiedel, Frederik Hermans, Olof Rensfelt,
Thiemo Voigt*

?       Throughput Maximization in Mobile WSN Scheduling with Power Control
and Rate Selection
*Yosef Alayev, Fangfei Chen, Yun Hou, Matthew P Johnson, Amotz Bar-Noy, Tom
La Porta, Kin K. K. Leung*



*12:00pm ? 1:00pm*     Lunch



*1:00pm ? 2:20pm*       *Camera and Multimedia Networks*

?       Coverage Estimation in Heterogeneous Visual Sensor Networks
*Mahmut Karakaya, Hairong Qi*

?       Adaptive Synchronization Control with Multi-level Buffer in
Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
*Guotao Zhao, Huadong Ma, Yan Sun, Hong Luo, Liang Liu*

?       LoCaF: Detecting Real-World States with Lousy Wireless Cameras
*Benjamin Meyer, Richard Mietz, Kay R?mer*

?       Kinsight: Localizing and Tracking Household Objects using
Depth-Camera Sensors
*S. M. Shahriar Nirjon, John Stankovic*



*2:20pm ? 2:40pm*       Break



*2:40pm ? 4:00pm*       *Mobile Applications and Security*

?       Timely Report Delivery in Social Swarming Applications
*Bin Liu, Peter Terlecky, Xing Xu, Amotz Bar-Noy, Ramesh Govindan, Dror
Rawitz*

?       Personal Marks and Community Certificates: Detecting Clones in
Wireless Mobile Social Networks
*Marco Valerio Barbera, Alessandro Mei*

?       A Mobile Terminal Based Trajectory Preserving Strategy for
Continuous Querying LBS Users
*Yunxia Feng, Peng Liu, Jianhui Zhang*

?       A Ubiquitous Publish/Subscribe Platform for Wireless Sensors
Networks with Mobile Mules
*Xiaoyu Tong, Edith C.-H. Ngai*



*4:00pm ? 4:20pm*       Break



*4:20pm ? 6:00pm*       *In-Network Processing and Local Algorithms*

?       Power-efficient algorithms for Fourier analysis over random
wireless sensor networks
*Xi Xu, Rashid Ansari, Ashfaq Khokhar*

?       Distributed Subspace Projection in Wireless Sensor Networks using
Computational Codes
*Xabier Insausti, Pedro M. Crespo, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano*

?       In-network computation of the Transition Matrix for Distributed
Subspace Projection
*Xabier Insausti, Pedro M. Crespo, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano*

?       An O(log n) Distributed Approximation Algorithm for Local
Broadcasting in Unstructured Wireless Networks
*Dongxiao Yu, Qiang-Sheng Hua, Amy Yuexuan Wang, Francis C.M. Lau*



*6:00pm ? 7:30pm*       Poster/Demo/Work-in-progress Session


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*Conference Program Day #2*

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*Thursday, May 17, 2012*



*8:30am - 9:30am*       Keynote Address: ?IoT/CPS with sensors and robots:
Actuation challenges,? *Ivan Stojmenovic, U Ottawa, Canada***



*9:30am ? 10:00am*     Break



*10:00am ? 12:00pm*   *Routing, MAC, and Wireless Interference*

?       Efficient graph planarization in sensor networks and local routing
algorithm
*Florian Huc, Aubin Jarry, Pierre Leone, Jose Rolim*

?       Controlled Straight Mobility and Energy-Aware Routing in Robotic
Wireless Sensor Networks
*Rafael Falcon, Hai Liu, Amiya Nayak, Ivan Stojmenovic*

?       BIN-MAC: A Hybrid MAC for Ultra Compact Wireless Sensor Nodes
*Vahid Salmani, Pai H Chou*

?       BANMAC: An Opportunistic MAC Protocol for Reliable Communications
in Body Area Networks
*K. Shashi Prabh, Fernando Royo, Stefano Tennina, Teresa Olivares*

?       Radiation awareness in three-dimensional wireless sensor networks
*Sotiris E. Nikoletseas, Dimitra Patroumpa, Viktor K. Prasanna,
Christoforos Raptopoulos, Jose Rolim*

?       Revisiting Multi-Channel Communication to Mitigate Interference and
Link Dynamics in Wireless Sensor Networks
*Antonio Oliveira Gonga, Olaf Landsiedel, Pablo Soldati, Mikael Johansson*



*12:00pm ? 1:00pm*                 Lunch



*1:00pm ? 2:40pm*                   *Network Deployment and Topology
Optimization*

?       Deploying Wireless Sensor Networks with Fault Tolerance for
Structural Health Monitoring
*Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Jiannong Cao, Guojun Wang*

?       On the Feasibility of Mass-Spring-Relaxation for Simple
Self-Deployment
*Juergen Eckert, Hermann S Lichte, Falko Dressler, Hannes Frey*

?       Optimal Relay Placement for Indoor Sensor Networks
*Cuiyao Xue, Yanmin Zhu, Lei Ni, Minglu Li, Bo Li*

?       Mitigate Funnel Effect in Sensor Networks with Multi-Interface
Relay Nodes
*Jorge Mena, Mario Gerla, Vana Kalogeraki*

?       Network topology optimization for accelerating consensus algorithms
under power constraints
*C?sar Asensio-Marco, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano*



*2:40pm ? 3:00pm*       Break



*3:00pm ? 4:00pm*       *Estimation and Detection*

?       Power-aware Joint Sensor Selection and Routing for Distributed
Estimation: a Convex Optimization Approach
*Santosh Shah, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano*

?       In-Network Iterative Distributed Estimation for Power-constrained
Wireless Sensor Networks
*Santosh Shah, Baltasar Beferull-Lozano*

?       A Cross-Layer Design for Decentralized Detection in Tree Sensor
Networks
*Ashraf Tantawy, Xenofon Koutsoukos, Gautam Biswas*



*4:00pm ? 4:20pm*       Break



*4:20pm ? 5:20pm*       *Load Balancing and Monitoring*

?       Resource Allocation with Stochastic Demands
*Fangfei Chen, Tom La Porta, Mani B. Srivastava*

?       Proactive vehicle re-routing strategies for congestion avoidance
*Juan Susan Pan, Mohammad Khan, Iulian Sandu Popa, Karine Zeitouni,
Cristian Borcea*

?       Passive Diagnosis for WSNs Using Data Traces
*Jiangwu Nie, Huadong Ma, Lufeng Mo*



*5:20pm ? 5:30pm*       Break



*5:30pm ? 6:30pm*       Panel discussion



*6:30pm                       *Closing Remarks & Closure of Main Conference*
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*Workshops Friday, May 18, 2012*

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*Social Event*

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It will take place *Wednesday evening May 16*, starting* 8pm*,* *at *TBA.*

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