[Tccc] CFP - MACOM 2011 - One week left before deadline - Special Session in Recent Advances on the Design of MAC protocols for WSNs
cristina cano
cristina.cano
Tue May 17 06:29:53 EDT 2011
Special Session in Recent Advances on the Design of MAC protocols for WSNs
(WSNs/MAC)
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4th International Workshop on Multiple Access Communications
11-13 September 2011 - Trento, Italy
http://www.csit-spb.ru/macom2011.html
In the last few years Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become an
interesting field of research mainly due to the challenges and constraints
of their design but also motivated by the broad range of potential
applications they can provide, covering from low-rate infrequent
transmissions (monitoring WSNs) to real-time video communication (multimedia
WSNs).
Among the different constraints that affect the design of WSNs, the most
important one is the limited energy resources of the sensor nodes. This
issue should be considered in the design of the entire protocol stack, but
specially in the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer as it is the responsible
for controlling the transceiver, that is the most consuming component of a
sensor node.
The heterogeneity of applications and scenarios of WSNs has motivated the
design of a large number of different MAC protocols in order to address the
different requirements and constraints. Consequently, this plethora of
solutions makes it difficult to perform a straightforward election of the
MAC protocol, specially if the WSN has to support multiple and different
requirements.
The proposed Special Session aims at presenting state-of-the-art solutions
regarding MAC protocols and discussing new design methodologies for next
generation WSNs, with special interest on hybrid, adaptive and
self-configurable MAC protocols that are able to efficiently cope with
variable application and network requirements.
Topics covered in this CFPs (but not limited to) are :
- TDMA-like MAC protocols
- MAC protocols with common active periods
- Asynchronous MAC protocols
- Game-theoretic & learning-MAC protocols
- Application, context and traffic-aware MAC protocols
- Cognitive radio and multi-channel MAC protocols
- MAC protocols for multimedia WSNs
- MAC protocols for periodic/event-based/query-based WSNs
- MAC protocols for mobile WSNs
- MAC protocols for WSNs in industrial standards (ZigBee, WMBUS, etc.)
- Synchronization issues in WSNs
- Network/MAC/PHY cross-layer design in WSNs
- Self-organization algorithms and techniques for WSNs
- Realistic simulation of MAC protocols for WSNs
Dates:
- Submission Deadline: May 24-th
- Review notification (fast track): May 31-th
- Camera Ready: June 7-th
Submission instructions:
Authors are encouraged to submit full papers describing original, previously
unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another
conference or journal, addressing one of the workshop's topics / areas of
interest.
The maximum length is 12 pages. Authors must comply with the LNCS
instructions that can be found in
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0 (the
maximum size of papers should be 5000 words including tables and figures.
The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords,
name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's
e-mail and postal address).
Papers must be submitted using EDAS. The direct link to the submission page
is http://edas.info/N10089 and select the WSN track. Alternatively, log in
to EDAS, select the tab labelled "Submit papers", and look for the
"MACOM-2011" entry.
Organizers:
- Cristina Cano (UPF)
- Evgeny Osipov (Lule? University of Technology)
- Torsten Braun (University of Bern)
- Boris Bellalta (UPF)
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Cristina
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