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Third international workshop on Middleware for Sensor Networks (MidSens'08) http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/midsens08/

Leuven, Belgium, December 1st 2008 co-located with Middleware2008 http://middleware2008.cs.kuleuven.be/

OBJECTIVES: ----------

The aim of this workshop is to stimulate research in the specific domain of middleware for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), to collect current expertise, and to further refine and integrate different approaches. In particular, the workshop will investigate how middleware architectures can relieve programmers from the lowest level sensor details, while still enabling them to exploit a sensor node’s resource capabilities in the most optimal way. This workshop aims to trigger and guide research efforts to create an integrated middleware vision, which is required to handle the challenges inherent to developing and deploying complex sensor applications in an efficient way.

BACKGROUND: ----------

Many current projects on sensor middleware focus on developing algorithms and components for data aggregation, localization, service discovery, routing, synchronization, etc. These projects, however, often do not pay sufficient attention to integrating these algorithms and components into a generic middleware architecture, and for helping application developers to compose a system that exactly matches their requirements. This is particularly timely as commercial WSN platforms begin to emerge.

This complexity of sensor network programming is partly caused by the highly resource limited, dynamic and heterogeneous environments in which sensor applications must operate. These specific WSN characteristics require a specific approach for middleware development that goes beyond dealing with resource constraints: middleware for WSNs should involve an end-to-end approach that handles the WSN as a whole rather than as a group of individual nodes. This implies considerable consequences for typical middleware services such as mobility, coordination, service discovery, security, data aggregation, quality of service, handling hardware heterogeneity, handling communication errors, scalability, and network organization.

SUGGESTED TOPICS: ----------------

The workshop seeks papers in, but not limited to, the areas listed below:

Software engineering support: - Software architectures for sensor middleware - Sensor middleware programming models and abstractions - Dynamic reconfiguration and adaptation of sensor middleware - Sensor middleware for self-assembly, self-configuration, self-distribution and autonomic computing in general - Sensor mobility - Sensor heterogeneity - Technology trade-offs (agent infrastructures, mobile code systems, event based middleware) - Lightweight agent middleware for WSNs

Middleware services: - Location tracking, localization, and synchronization services - Aggregation techniques and data management - Energy-aware middleware mechanisms - Cross layering and resource awareness - Fault tolerance and reliability - In-network QoS control - Privacy and security services - Middleware for mobile sensors

Management of WSNs: - Overlay and topology management - Resource discovery and management - Effective naming and device/service discovery in end-to-end WSNs - Interoperability of WSNs with existing/legacy middleware - architectures

Sensor applications/tools: - Testing and simulation tools for middleware - Experience/application/assessment of sensor middleware for real-world applications

DATES: ------

Abstract Submission deadline: July 25, 2008 Submission deadline: August 1, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2008 Camera ready version: October 8, 2007 Workshop date: December 1, 2008 Main Conference date: December 1-5, 2008

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: ---------------------

All submitted papers will be evaluated based upon their originality, technical soundness, and relevance to the field of sensor middleware. Submitted papers must be original work without substantial overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or conference with proceedings.

All submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed 6 pages, must strictly follow the ACM conference proceedings format, must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions, and Must be submitted in PDF format. Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.

The paper submission site will be available at: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/midsens08/submission.html

The proceedings will be uploaded to the ACM Digital Library.

ORGANISATION: ------------

Program Chairs: - Danny Hughes, Lancaster University, UK - Sam Michiels, K.U.Leuven, Belgium

Program Committee: - Gordon Blair, Lancaster University, UK - Athanassios Boulis, NICTA, Australia - Vinny Cahill, Trinity College, Ireland - Paolo Costa, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands - Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden - Wendi B. Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA - Wen Hu, CSIRO, Australia - Danny Hughes, Lancaster University, UK - Wouter Joosen, K.U.Leuven, Belgium - Kristof Van Laerhoven, University of Darmstadt - Sam Michiels, K.U.Leuven, Belgium - Mirco Musolesi, Dartmouth College, USA - Kay Römer, ETH, Switzerland

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