CALL FOR PAPERS: International Workshop on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks (WTASA'07)
Xiang-Yang Li
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International Workshop on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of
Sensor and Ad-hoc Networks (WTASA'07)
http://web.eng.fiu.edu/wtasa07
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Miami, Florida
June 28-29, 2007
Wireless sensor networks have attracted much attention due to potential
applications ranging from habitat monitoring
to disaster recovery. Much work has been done in protocol design for data
communication and data collection, simulation,
and experimental study. The theoretical research, however, falls short of
the expectation of the future sensor network
deployment. People working in hardware, systems, and experiments have
collected much data and accrued much experience,
but the effort in answering how the experience helps to push the
theoretical research in sensor networks forward for a
deeper understanding about this new network is still in its inception.
To that end, the International Workshop on Theoretical and Algorithmic
Aspects of Sensor Networks will bring together
leading researchers and developers in this field to study the special
problems and challenges of the algorithmic aspects
of sensor and ad-hoc networks. The goal of the workshop is also to foster
communication not only between the different
sensor and ad-hoc communities, but also between those communities and the
distributed systems and information systems
communities.
Scope of the Workshop
The objective of the workshop is to define and establish a common
infrastructure of the discipline and to develop a
consensus-based document that will provide a foundation for
implementation, standardization, and further research.
The workshop will identify and define fundamental concepts and techniques,
resolve conflicts between certain approaches
in the area and provide a common ground for advanced research and
development in algorithmic aspects of sensor and
ad-hoc networks, concentrating on the special challenges of the sensor and
mobile and wireless environments.
The topics that will be addressed include, but are not limited to, the
following, all as they pertain to the sensors
and mobile environment:
Theoretical and algorithmic methods/tools: optimization, modeling,
computational geometry, graph theory, and combinatorics.
Energy-aware sensor network topology control, routing algorithms, data
collection, congestion control, and resource management.
Sensor network test-beds, field experiments, trial and measurements.
Optimal resource management, bandwidth management, power control, mobility
management.
Sensor network static and dynamic planning.
Location-dependent applications and protocols including localization and
object tracking.
Data aggregation and dissemination, data query.
MAC (Media Access Control) algorithms and protocols, including
contention-based and collision-free methods.
Security and its trade-off with other factors such as energy, delay,
computation complexity.
Scalability design, e.g., clustering architectures.
Distributed and localized solutions.
Flow and error control, implementations and performance analysis.
Admission control, QoS (Quality of Service), Fault-tolerance.
Specific application design, multimedia over sensor networks.
Inter-connection between sensor networks and other types of networks such
as cellular networks, the Internet.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: Feb 23, 2007
Notification of acceptance: April 06, 2007
Camera ready due: May 11, 2007
Workshop: June 28-29, 2007
Workshop Format
The workshop format will encourage productive interaction among
participants. It will consist of the presentation of
selected papers and invited papers on new developments and current trends,
with ample time allocated for group discussions.
This format should provide a forum for collaborations to develop among
members of the different research and development
communities. Attendance will be limited and attendants will be asked to
contribute to a consensus-based paper on algorithmic
aspects of sensor and ad-hoc networks to be published after the workshop.
Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers discussing issues in algorithmic
aspects of sensor and ad-hoc networks that
must be addressed to achieve consensus. Position papers that challenge
existing ideas in algorithmic aspects of sensor and
ad-hoc networks with new research, technologies and visionary applications
are also encouraged. Papers should be
between 10 and 25 pages in length, and should include the title,
author(s), authors' affiliation and an abstract.
Submitters should also indicate their willingness to contribute to the
final report. Electronic submission is
strongly encouraged. If electronic submission is not possible, five (5)
hard copies of the paper should be sent.
Contact information for both forms of submission is provided below. The
accepted papers will be distributed to the
participants prior to the workshop and also the papers of the workshop
projected to appear either in a book or in
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
Workshop Organizer
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Honory Chairs
Ding-Zhu Du, University of Minnesota
Niki Pissinou, Florida International University
General Co-Chairs
Kia Makki, Florida International University
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Xiang-Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology
S. Kami Makki, University of Toledo
Program Committee
Basagni, Stefano, Northeastern University
Burmester, Mike, Florida State University
Busovaca, Senad, California State University, Sacramento
Cao, Jiannong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Chen, Guihai, Nanjing University, China
Chu, Xiaowen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Douligeris, Christos, University of Piraeus, Greece
Eidenbenz, Stephan, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Frieder, Ophir, Illinois Institute of Technology
Gao, Jie, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Guizani, Mohsen, Western Michigan University
Ghosh,Tirthankar, St. Cloud State University
Hass, Zygmunt, Cornell University
He, Tian, University of Minnesota
Hou, Jennifer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Krunz, Marwan, University of Arizona
Kuhn, Fabian, Microsoft Research
Li, Baochun, University of Toronto, Canada
Li, Erran, Bell Laboratories
Li, Jinbao, Heilongjiang University, China
Li, Qun, College of William & Marry
Liu, Benyuan, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Liu, Yunhao, Hong Kong University of Science And
Lu, Chenyang, Washington University In St. Louis
Moscibroda, Thomas, Microsoft Research
Nandagopal, Thyaga, Bell Laboratories
Peng, Wuxu, Texas State University
Ravindran, Kaliappa, City University of New York
Santi, Paolo, Institute of Informatics & Telematics (IIT-CNR), Italy
Sarkar, Saswati, University of Pennsylvania
Shen, Sherman, University of Waterloo, Canada
Song, Wenzhan, Washington State University at Vancouver
Stojmenovic, Ivan, University of Ottowa, Canada
Wan, Peng-Jun, Illinois Institute of Technology
Wang, Weizhao, Google Inc.
Wang, Yu, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Xiao, Yang, University of Alabama
Xue, Guoliang, Arizona State University
Xue, Yuan, Vanderbilt University
Zheng, Haitao, University of California at Santa Barbara
Zheng, Rong, University of Houston
Zhou, Chi, Illinois Institute of Technology
Contact Information
Dr. S. Kami Makki, University of Toledo
<kma...@eng.utoledo.edu>
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Best,
Xiang-Yang Li
Department of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
x...@cs.iit.edu
www.cs.iit.edu/~xli