Call for Papers - SANPA 2004
Second International Workshop on
Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications
August 22, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, USA

in Conjunction with MobiQuitous 2004
Submission Deadline (EXTENDED): JUNE 7, 2004

Scope
Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) are fast emerging as a new sensing paradigm based on the collaborative effort of large number of sensors deployed close to or inside the phenomenon to be observed, and have the potential of providing diverse services to numerous applications. The realization of WSANs require intensive technical research efforts especially in power aware scalable wireless ad hoc communications protocols due to their unusual application requirements and unique constraints such as the following:

 

·         WSANs are generally composed of large number of sensor nodes that have limited computational and storage capacity.

·         In many applications, sensor nodes can be randomly scattered in unreachable regions.

·         The sensed phenomenon must be acted on by the actor nodes in the field in a timely and accurate manner.

·         The lifetime of a sensor network is generally limited to the battery lifetime of sensor nodes.

 

SANPA 2004 is intended to provide a forum for researchers to present their contributions as technical papers related to communication protocols for WSANs, data management, access, aggregation and fusion techniques, and sensor network applications. SANPA 2004 will continue and build upon the success of SNPA 2003 (held in conjunction with ICC 2003). The papers solicited in SANPA 2004 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to:

 

·         Communication protocols for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks at all layers

·         Novel sensor/actor network applications and services

·         Self organizing and scalable sensor/actor network architectures

·         Software platforms and tools for sensor/actor network application development

·         Energy efficient medium access control, error control, and traffic management protocols

·         Energy efficient system services such as localization and time synchronization

·         Robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing

·         Mechanisms, protocols and algorithms for authenticated, secure communication

·         Application specific network and system services, including data-centric routing, attribute based addressing and location management

·         Data querying and dissemination

·         Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion

 

Submission Instructions

The papers should confirm with the MobiQuitous paper format (www.mobiquitous.org) and can be up to 11 pages long. Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper to sanpa@ece.gatech.edu. For more information about the workshop, see http://www.sanpa.org/.

 

 

Papers of particular merit will be published in the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier Science).

 

 

Important Dates

Manuscript Due (EXTENDED):         June 7, 2004

Acceptance Notification:                     July 9, 2004

Final Manuscript Due:                       July 23, 2004

Workshop Date:                            August 22, 2004