nauman aslam <nauman.aslam@gmail.com> schrieb:

Call for
Papers




International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Actor and Actuator Networks
(WiSAAN)

                           Held in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2012, June 10
-15, Ottawa, ON, Canada




http://sites.google.com/site/wisaan12/







In recent years wireless sensor networks have witnessed a paradigm shift
from traditional homogeneous to heterogeneous deployments  containing a mix
of resource constrained sensor nodes and powerful nodes known as actors.
The capabilities of actor nodes include enhanced processing ability,
powerful wireless transmission, large battery and mobility.  Actor nodes
can leverage their capabilities to facilitate better coverage, connectivity
and energy
efficient operation. Such capabilities offer unprecedented
opportunities to serve a diverse range of applications. For instance,
actors with mobility can be used to mend a partitioned network, set up new
routes, facilitate energy efficient data collection and improve sensor
coverage.  Similarly, the some sensor nodes may also be equipped with
actuation capability called actuators that perform actions to change the
behaviour of environment or the physical system.  Embedding actuation in
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) opens a realm of opportunities for Wireless
Sensor Actuator Network (WSAN) industrial applications requiring monitoring
and control. While significant research progress have been made in
networking and communication aspects of WSNs, new design paradigms are
required for wireless sensor actor and actuator networks (WiSAANs). In
particular new ideas are required to address the challenges resulting from
introducing actors and actuators in the network. This workshop aims to
bring the state-of-art research contributions in theory, design and
implementation of communication protocols for WiSAANs.

Another key objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers
from academia and industry to present their work and share their views. We
expect the workshop to act as a leading forum for the WSN research
community to discuss their ideas on addressing the most current challenges,
potential solutions and future developments of WiSAANs. We encourage
contributions describing original work in the realm of data collection,
architecture, algorithms, communication protocols and implementations of
WSANs. Topics of interest include but not limited to:



 - Architectural models for WiSAANs

- Algorithms and communication protocols for WiSAANs

- Service model for WiSAANs

- Sensor-actor
and sensor-actuator co-ordination

- QoS models for WiSAANs

- Energy efficient protocols for WiSAANs

- Integration of real-time protocols with WiSAAN

- Time modeling and synchronization in  WiSAANs

- WiSAAN current and future applications and implementations

- Data processing and management  in WiSAANs

- Medium access protocols for WiSAANs

- Routing Protocols for WiSAANs

- Data gathering and data fusion models for improving real-time performance
in WiSAANs



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Important Dates

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Submission deadline:                                     20 December 2011
(Extended Deadline)

Authors Notification:                                      10 February  2012

Final Manuscript:                                           31 March 2012

Workshop Date:                            
                June 10 -15 2012



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General Chairs

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Prof. Ivan Stojmenović, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada

Prof. Zabih Ghassemlooy, CEIS, Northumbria University, UK



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Workshop Organizers

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Dr. Ramiro Liscano, UoIT, Canada,

Dr. Nauman Aslam, Northumbria University, UK

IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications
(TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication.
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