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MadCom: New Wireless Communication Paradigms for the Internet of Things
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In-conjunction with EWSN 2017
In-cooperation with ACM SIGBED
Proceedings appear in ACM Digital Library
February 20,
2017 in Uppsala, Sweden
Call for Papers
Aim
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For the last decades, radio frequency (RF) has been at the core of
the revolution enabling wireless communication for the Internet of
Things (IoT). But RF communication has been a victim of its own success,
and the ever increasing number of devices joining the IoT are saturating
the RF bandwidth. We need alternative ways to exploit RF technology and
to use other means to transmit data wirelessly. The aim of this workshop
is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different
communities to identify and explore novel wireless communication
technologies, and debate on and discuss priorities and challenges in
the research agenda.
Scope
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The workshop will consist of a keynote and presentations of research papers.
The keynote will be given by Xia Zhou, Dartmouth College, USA.
Full papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages.
The workshop also accepts short papers of a maximum length of two pages,
presenting preliminary technical results. The topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:
+ backscatter communication
+ visible light communication
+ mm-wave communication
+ magnetic induction communication
+ terahertz communication
+ camera-based communication
+ thermal-based communication
+ molecular communication
+ communication through physical vibration
+ acoustic communication
+ new platforms
+ new communication methods with RF signals
+ new network stacks for novel communication technologies
+ applications for novel wireless communication methods
Please ask the workshop chair if you are uncertain if your
topic fits, email: domenico.giustiniano (at) imdea.org
Important Dates:
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Paper Submission (final deadline): October 28, 2016
Paper Notification: December 1, 2016
Organization
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Workshop Chair:
Domenico Giustiniano, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain
TPC:
Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz, Austria
Paolo Casari, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain
Giorgio Corbellini, Disney Research Zurich,
Switzerland
Omprakash Gnawali, University of Houston, US
Yusung Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Dimitrios Koutsonikolas, University at Buffalo, USA
Zhenjiang Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Michael Brandon Rahaim, Boston University, USA
Andrew Markham, The University of Oxford, UK
Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland
Marco Zuniga, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Ashwin Ashok, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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NextMote: Next Generation Platforms for the Cyber-Physical Internet
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a workshop hosted by
International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
February 20. – 22. 2017, Uppsala, Sweden
Call for Papers
Aim
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The hardware for networked embedded systems and Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved significantly over the last decades. During this time two major classes of platforms have emerged for network gathering and processing of sensor data: so called "motes" that are based on a micro controller and well
suited for prototyping and testing hypotheses and solutions in the field, and smartphones as ubiquitous and powerful yet mobile communications and computing platforms already adopted by wide population. However, as the number of devices and applications continue growing in numbers and reducing in size, novel, superior platforms should emerge. Let us call these new platforms "NextMote".
This workshop would like to ask the question: what comes after motes and smartphones for the communication and computation needs in the world of IoT and remote distributed sensing. What will be the NextMote platform?
Some challenges will remain: prolonging the lifetime of the network nodes, minimizing the power consumption, providing sufficient communications and processing power. What are the next challenges and how to meet them, for example, the challenges due to minimizing the size of the devices, increasing the number of nodes dramatically, and sensing large streams of data in resource constrained environment. How to survive extreme environments and applications while doing no harm, such as NextMotes on and in the human body, volcano, or space. The workshop raises these questions in the terms of novel hardware platform and associate firmware and software design and development, for prototyping and for end-user systems.
Scope
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The workshop will consist of a keynote, presentations of short papers and an open discussion session. The short papers can be of a technical nature, presenting preliminary results, or position papers presenting a thought-provoking view regarding architectures, design methods or tools for the novel NextMote platforms.
The workshop focuses on the aspects related to platform design in the context of NextMote. Topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to:
+ Modular, multi-core, multi-radio, and reconfigurable architectures for NextMote
+ Devices for novel communication: dense, sparse, and directional coverage
+ Pushing NextMote towards battery-less operation: energy harvesting, storage, and transfer
+ Pushing the size of NextMote towards "smart dust", ultra-thin, and stretchable
+ Unconventional form factors and packaging: wearable, on-body, printable NextMotes
+ Surviving extreme
environments and leaving no trace: bio-degradable, digestible, disposable NextMotes
+ Robust and redundant design for NextMote health, reliability and self healing
+ Design, evaluation and profiling tools, and next level testbeds for NextMote
+ Hardware assisted security and privacy in resource constrained devices
+ Low-level software, firmware, operating systems for NextMote
+ Ultra low-cost hardware and deployments at large
+ Active or opportunistic mobility for NextMotes: riding on humans, animals, drones, drifting
+ Nature inspired (passive) mobility, NextMotes as seeds or pollen
Submission Instructions
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Papers must be submitted online via EasyChair:
Formatting requirements. The papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings and will appear in the ACM Digital Library. We encourage submissions from academia and industry alike. The papers can have a maximum length of 6 pages (two column format).
Pages must have 8.5" x 11" (letter) two-column format, using 10-point type on 11-point leading, with a maximum text block of 7" wide x 9" deep with an intercolumn spacing of .25". The page limits
include figures, tables, and references. Authors may use the LaTeX template ewsn-workshops.tex provided here:
Importand Dates
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Paper Submission: October 28, 2016 (extended).
Paper Notification: December 1, 2016.
Organization
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Workshop chair:
Leo Selavo, University of Latvia
Program Committee:
Marcel Baunach, TU Graz, Austria
Octav Chipara, University of Iowa,
USA
Pai Chou, UC Irvine, USA
Peter Langendörfer, IHP Microelectronics, Germany
Massimo Poncino, Politecnico di Milano, Italy