-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Call for Competitors] 4th Dependability Competition at EWSN 2019 Datum: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:15:01 +0000 Von: Saukh, Olga saukh@tugraz.at Antwort an: engelbert.meissl@tugraz.at An: iti.announce@mlist.tugraz.at iti.announce@mlist.tugraz.at

----------------------------------------------------------------------                         Call for Competitors

4th Dependability Competition at the    Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)

February 25-27, 2019  -  Beijing, China

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Following the success of the first three editions, the International  Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks will host also  this year a dependability competition to benchmark the performance  of WSN and IoT communication protocols in harsh RF environments.

********  FORMAT  ********

The EWSN 2019 dependability competition will take place remotely and  the final results will be announced during EWSN in Beijing.

Remote preparation phase. After successfully registering to the  conference, accepted contestants will obtain the credentials to  remotely access the competition infrastructure. During the official  preparation phase, all competing teams will have the possibility to  test and optimize their solution for this year's competition scenario.  In particular, contestants will be able to program all nodes in the  competition infrastructure and download their serial output, as well  as the evaluation results. The latter will be published on a  leaderboard that will be visible to all other competing teams.

Final evaluation phase. At the end of the preparation phase, each  team needs to provide one single ihex binary file for each competition  category. During the evaluation phase, this binary file will be used  to extensively benchmark the performance of the competing solution.

Competition abstracts. Each team will have the possibility to publish  a competition abstract as part of the EWSN proceedings that will  appear in the ACM Digital Library. The competition abstracts will  follow the same camera-ready deadline as the EWSN poster abstracts and  are expected to include a description of the competing solution, as well  as preliminary results and lessons learned from the preparation phase.

Poster session. A poster session dedicated to the dependability  competition will take place during the main EWSN conference. All  competing teams must present their solution in the poster session and  will have the possibility to engage in lively discussions with the other  conference attendees.

Awards. The winners of each competition's category will be awarded during  a dedicated plenary session of the main conference. After receiving the  award, the winning teams must hold a plenary short presentation about  their solution, followed by a discussion session.

********  COMPETITION CATEGORIES  ********

The EWSN 2019 dependability competition foresees two categories:

Category 1: Data collection for condition monitoring.  In this category, a fixed number of source nodes communicate to a single  destination node over a multi-hop network (i.e., multipoint-to-point  traffic). The destination node collects the data transmitted by all  source nodes and forwards it to a control center for further processing.

Category 2: Dissemination of actuation commands.  In this category, a fixed number of source nodes needs to disseminate  actuation commands to a specific set of destinations nodes in the network  (i.e., point-to-multipoint traffic). Each source node is associated to a  specific set of destinations (at most eight), which will be injected as  input parameter into the firmware under test by the competition  infrastructure.

A detailed description of the competition scenario and evaluation procedure  can be found on: http://ewsn2019.thss.tsinghua.edu.cn/competition-scenario.html

********  ELIGIBILITY  ********

Both academia and industry submissions are encouraged. All wireless  communication protocols used in low-power wireless sensor networks are  welcome, and there is no restriction on the operating system used to  program the sensor nodes. There is also no requirement on the originality  of the competing solutions: the demonstration of good use of well-known  or previously-published protocols is strongly encouraged. The EWSN 2019  dependability competition will take place if at least five teams competing  in the same category respond to this preliminary call for competitors.

********  SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS  ********

Contestants must submit a short abstract describing their approach by the  competition entry deadline. The abstract should prominently include the  name of all members of the team, as well as their affiliation and contact  information. Detailed information on the formatting requirements and the  submission instructions can be found on:  http://ewsn2019.thss.tsinghua.edu.cn/call-for-competitors.html

********  IMPORTANT DATES  ********

- Competition entry deadline: August 6, 2018 (23:59, AoE) - Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2018 - Preparation phase: from September 15 to November 30, 2018 - Evaluation phase: from December 1 to February 15, 2019 - Camera-ready abstract: December 31, 2018 - Awards and poster session: February 26-27, 2019

********  ORGANIZERS  ********

Carlo Alberto Boano (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Markus Schuß (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

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