-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFPforSANPA04: 2nd International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:32:37 -0400 From: Ozgur Baris Akan akan@ece.gatech.edu To: itc@comsoc.org

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SANPA 2004 Second International Workshop on Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications

August 22, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, USA in Conjunction with MobiQuitous 2004 Submission Deadline: MAY 31, 2004 http://www.sanpa.org

Call For Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Scope:

Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) are fast emerging as a new sensing paradigm based on the collaborative effort of large number of sensors deployed close to or inside the phenomenon to be observed, and have the potential of providing diverse services to numerous applications. The realization of WSANs require intensive technical research efforts especially in power aware scalable wireless ad hoc communications protocols due to their unusual application requirements and unique constraints such as the following:

- WSANs are generally composed of large number of sensor nodes that have limited computational and storage capacity. - In many applications, sensor nodes can be randomly scattered in unreachable regions. - The sensed phenomenon must be acted on by the actor nodes in field in a timely and accurate manner. - The lifetime of a sensor network is generally limited to the battery lifetime of sensor nodes.

SANPA 2004 is intended to provide a forum for researchers to present their contributions as technical papers related to communication protocols for WSANs, data management, access, aggregation and fusion techniques, and sensor network applications. SANPA 2004 will continue and build upon the success of SNPA 2003 (held in conjunction with ICC 2003). The papers solicited in SANPA 2004 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to:

- Communication protocols for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks at all layers - Novel sensor/actor network applications and services - Self organizing and scalable sensor/actor network architectures - Software platforms and tools for sensor/actor network application development - Energy efficient medium access control, error control, and traffic management protocols - Energy efficient system services such as localization and time synchronization - Robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing - Mechanisms, protocols and algorithms for authenticated, secure communication - Application specific network and system services, including data-centric routing, attribute based addressing and location management - Data querying and dissemination - Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion

Submission Instructions:

The papers should confirm with the MobiQuitous paper format (www.mobiquitous.org) and can be up to 11 pages long. Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper to sanpa@ece.gatech.edu. For more information about the workshop, see http://www.sanpa.org/.

Papers of particular merit will be published in the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier Science).

Important Dates:

Manuscript Due: May 31, 2004 Acceptance Notification: July 9, 2004 Final Manuscript Due: July 23, 2004 Workshop Date: August 22, 2004

Organization Committee:

Program Co-Chairs:

Erdal Cayirci (erdal@ece.gatech.edu) Department of Computer Engineering Istanbul Technical University Istanbul, Turkey

Raghupathy Sivakumar (siva@ece.gatech.edu) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0250

Publicity Chair:

Ozgur Baris Akan (akan@ece.gatech.edu) Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey