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The First International Workshop on Protocols and Algorithms for Reliable and Data Intensive Sensor Networks (PARIS'07)

October 8th, 2007 --- Pisa, Italy

http://paris.tu-harburg.de/

Held in conjunction with the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems

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The field of wireless sensor networks has advanced considerably over the past years and new research problems are emerging. In particular the aspect of quality of service is becoming more important as applications are turned into products. This workshop focuses on the issue of reliability in data intensive wireless sensor networks. It is held just one day prior to the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'07) in the pleasant town of Pisa, Italy. This event provides an ideal opportunity to meet leading experts and to discuss new ideas.

The main objective of PARIS'07 is to bring together international researchers with the aim of encouraging the exchange of ideas and experience and to find new research directions to follow. It will represent an international forum to give an overview of the most recent trends.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

An new emerging class of applications has very high bandwidth requirements. In some of these applications sensors measure data at rates 100 Hz and higher. At the same time sensors such as cameras are used that produce high volumes of data. Examples of applications that show these characteristics are structural monitoring of buildings, volcano and coastline monitoring, and Surveillance of public transport systems. Protocols and algorithms developed for lightly-loaded sensor networks can not be directly applied to this domain.

Besides being data intensive, some applications require that the measured data is reliably transported towards a sink. A reliable service is needed if the data from all sensors is used to build a model, where only the entirety of the data allows a correct interpretation. Any loss of data items requires extrapolation reducing the quality of the analysis or even rendering the analysis impossible. The reliable transportation of high volumes of sampled data through a multi-hop network with limited resources towards a sink has not received much attention until now and is a real challenge. Also it is not obvious which reliability criteria to use, in same applications statistical guarantees may also suffices. These questions are part of the more general topic of quality of service for wireless sensor networks. While this topic has received a lot of attention in wired communications systems, there are only a few contributions dedicated to sensor networks.

The objective of this workshop is to provide an opportunity for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present and discuss experiences and research results for this new emerging field and to find new research directions to follow.

TOPICS

PARIS'07 seeks original papers describing research in all areas described above. Papers should not have been published or be in submission at another workshop or conference. Topics include but are not limited to:

* Quality of service for sensor networks * Intelligent and adaptive scheduling mechanisms * Power management for data intensive applications * Energy-aware reliable transport protocols * Probabilistic reliability * Fault tolerance in sensor networks * In-Network aggregation schemes * Distributed data compression * Bulk data transportation * Stream processing in sensor networks

Submissions should present original reports of substantive new work. Papers should properly place the work within the field, cite related work, and clearly indicate the innovative aspects of the work and its contribution to the field.

In addition to regular papers, we also solicit submissions of position papers articulating high-level architectural visions, describing challenging future directions, or criticizing current design wisdom. Position papers should contribute perspective rather than performance numbers, wisdom rather than knowledge, and guidance rather than results. Furthermore, we encourage reports on lessons learned from real-world deployments and best practices for different applications areas.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers from an international program committee. Accepted submissions will appear in the main conference proceedings published by the IEEE.

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

All submissions must be full papers in .pdf or .ps (PostScript) format. Papers must be uploaded to the EDAS conference system by April 30, 2007, and must not exceed 6 single-spaced, two-column pages (4 pages for position papers and experience reports) using at least 11 point size fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. Detailed submission instructions will be published in due time on the workshop website.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2007 Acceptance Notifications: July 15, 2007 Camera-Ready Version: August 10, 2007 PARIS Workshop: October 8, 2007 MASS Conference: October 9-10, 2007

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Volker Turau, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Christoph Weyer, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

Contact: c.weyer@tu-harburg.de

PROGRAM COMMITTE MEMBERS

Özgür B. Akan, Middle East Technical University of Ankara, Turkey Sebnem Baydere, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey Edoardo S. Biagioni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Domenico Cotroneo, University of Napoli Federico II., Italy Murat Demirbas, University at Buffalo, USA Stefan Fischer, University of Lübeck, Germany Norbert Luttenberger, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras, Greece José Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland Kay Römer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kaoru Sezaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Dirk Timmermann, University of Rostock, Germany Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan Matthias Witt, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts, USA Hongwei Zhang, Wayne State University, USA

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