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IEEE SECON 2004

First Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks

Technically Co-Sponsored By: IEEE ComSoc TCCC

Santa Clara, California October 4-7, 2004

Paper submissions due (via EDAS): June 7, 2004

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The convergence of the Internet, communications and information technologies, coupled with recent engineering advances, is paving the way for a new generation of inexpensive mobile devices, sensors and actuators. It is the distributed and ad hoc deployment of networks of these network devices and sensors that bears promises for a significant impact, not only on science and engineering, but equally importantly on a broad range of applications relating to critical infrastructure protection and security, health care, the environment, energy, food safety, production processing, quality of life, and the economy.

This new IEEE Communications Society conference will provide a forum to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices, raise awareness and share experiences among researchers, practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the field of sensor and ad hoc networks and systems. The conference will be organized to provide for a degree of collegiality and continuity in the discussions of the various topics among participants from the industrial, governmental and academic sectors.

Original technical papers, which address the communications, networking, systems and algorithmic aspects of ad hoc and sensor networks, as well as those that describe practical deployment and implementation experiences are solicited for presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings. Papers presenting novel contributions in such disciplines as digital signal processing, communications, networking protocols and architectures, algorithms, embedded systems, middleware and information management, and novel applications are solicited.

PAPERS:

Two types of submissions will be accepted for review in this conference:

* FULL papers describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, and industrial and commercial developments in sensor and ad hoc communications and networks. Papers with a deep focus on a specific discipline or stimulated by the synergistic interaction of diverse disciplines are encouraged.

* SHORT papers focusing on future research directions, industry challenges and novel approaches in the field of sensor and ad hoc communications and networks. Papers in this category must be visionary, innovative and forward- looking.

Particular topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* New architectures, protocols and access control to support communication, localization, time synchronization, routing and data dissemination in heterogeneous, large-scale distributed, ad hoc networks and sensor networks

* Novel algorithms and theories for management, supervisory control and monitoring of distributed ad hoc networks, and techniques for the interpretation and use of sensor data in decision-making processes

* Industrial and commercial developments and applications

* Modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale distributed and ad hoc sensor networks, practical implementations, and real-work experiences

* Theories and models on fundamental information and communication aspects of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

* Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication and data dissemination in sensor and ad hoc networks

* Integration of sensors into engineered systems, including novel techniques for sensor renewable power sources, mechanisms for on-sensor self- calibration and self-testing and efficient schemes to maximize accuracy and minimize false alarms

* Chip-based systems incorporating multiple sensors, computation, actuation, and wireless interfaces

* Software platforms, middleware and tools for ad hoc and sensor network applications development, deployment and management

TUTORIALS AND PANELS:

Proposals for tutorials and panels on current topics in the field of ad hoc and sensor networking and applications are solicited. Panels related to the commercial application and development of sensors and ad hoc networks are especially encouraged.

DEMOS AND EXPO:

Demonstrations that showcase the practical implementations, industrial and commercial developments, and new applications for ad hoc and sensor networks are solicited.

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS:

* All submissions will be handled electronically via EDAS (http://edas.info).

Please refer to the appropriate link and information at the conference website, http://www.ieee-secon.org/2004.

* The conference will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published and are not currently under review by another conference or journal. All submissions will be handled electronically and must be in PDF or PostScript format.

* The length of FULL papers (describing original, previously unpublished research work, experimental efforts, practical experiences, etc.) must NOT exceed 10 IEEE conference-style pages (US "Letter" size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references, in two-column, single-space format, with a font size of 11 points.

* The length of SHORT papers (focusing on future research directions, industry challenges, highly novel approaches, etc.) must not exceed 6 IEEE conference-style pages (US "Letter" size, 8.5 x 11 inches) including text, figures and references, in two-column, single-space format, with a font size of 11 points.

* Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected.

* All submissions will be reviewed for technical merits and relevance to the conference.

* Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submissions due: June 7, 2004 Tutorial/Panel Proposals due: July 12, 2004 Notification date: August 1, 2004 Camera-ready version due: August 20, 2004

GENERAL CHAIR:

Taieb Znati, University of Pittsburgh, and NSF znati@cs.pitt.edu

GENERAL VICE-CHAIR:

C. S. Raghavendra, University of Southern California raghu@usc.edu

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:

Sung-Ju Lee Prasant Mohapatra Krishna Sivalingam HP Laboratories UC Davis UMBC sjlee@hpl.hp.com prasant@cs.ucdavis.edu krishna@umbc.edu

PANELS CHAIR:

Fred Bauer, fred@fredbauer.com

TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS:

Tom LaPorta, Pennsylvania State University, tlp@cse.psu.edu Cedric Westphal, Nokia, cedric.westphal@nokia.com

PUBLICITY CHAIR:

Surendar Chandra, Univ. of Notre Dame, surendar@cse.nd.edu

For more information, please visit the conference website http://www.ieee-secon.org/2004 or contact one of the conference co-chairs.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Prathima Agrawal, Auburn Kevin Almeroth, UCSB Mary Baker, HP Labs Suman Banerjee, University of Wisconsin Stefano Basagni, Northeastern Elizabeth Belding-Royer, UCSB Christian Bettstetter, DoCoMo Euro-Labs Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen Andrew Campbell, Columbia Erdal Cayirci, Istanbul Technical University Surendar Chandra, Notre Dame Marco Conti, IIT Institute - CNR Pisa David Culler, UC Berkeley Samir Das, SUNY Stony Brook Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland Deborah Estrin, UCLA John Fisher, MIT JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves, UCSC Mario Gerla, UCLA Silvia Giordano, SUPSI of Lugano Zygmunt Haas, Cornell University Richard Han, University of Colorado Paul Havinga, University of Twente Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester Sanjay Jha, UNSW, Sydney Anupam Joshi, UMBC Sneha Kasera, Utah Young-Bae Ko, Ajou University Robin Kravetz, UIUC Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Intel Srikanth Krishnamurthy, UCR Marwan Krunz, Arizona P.R. Kumar, UIUC Kevin Lai, HP Koen Langendoen, Delft University of Technology Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Li Li, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies Mingyan Liu, Michigan Richard Martin, Rutgers University Seapahn Megerian, University of Wisconsin Lynette Millett, The National Academies Thyagarajan Nandagopal (Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies) Peng Ning, NCSU Charles Perkins, Nokia Research Center Lili Qiu, Microsoft Parmesh Ramanathan, University of Wisconsin Jason Redi, BBN Martin Reisslein, ASU Paolo Santi, CNR Andreas Savvides, Yale Curt Schurgers, UCSD Sergio Servetto, Cornell Rajeev Shorey, NUS Singapore Suresh Singh, Portland State Univ Emin Sirer, Cornell University Raghupathy Sivakumar, Georgia Tech. Mani Srivastava, UCLA John Stankovic, University of Virginia William Su, Boeing Gaurav Sukhatme, USC Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao-Tung Univ. Cedric Westphal, Nokia Stephen Wicker, Cornell Adam Wolisz, Technical University of Berlin Mark Yarvis, Intel Corporation Qian Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia Michele Zorzi, Universita'di Ferrara

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