Workshops

Call for Papers - SNPA 2003
First IEEE International Workshop on
Sensor Network Protocols and Applications
May 11, 2003 Anchorage, AK, USA

in Conjunction with IEEE ICC 2003
Extended Submission Deadline: OCTOBER 28, 2002

Scope
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) 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 WSNs 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:
  • WSNs are generally composed of large number of nodes that have limited computational and storage capacity.
  • In many applications, sensor nodes are expected to be randomly scattered in unreachable regions.
  • The lifetime of a sensor network is generally limited to the battery lifetime
    of sensor nodes    .

SNPA 2003 is intended to provide a forum for researchers to present their contributions as technical papers related to communication protocols for WSNs, data management, access, aggregation and fusion techniques, and sensor network applications. The papers solicited in SNPA 2003 cover a variety of topics including but not limited to:

  • Communication protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks at all layers
  • Novel sensor network applications and services
  • Self organizing and scalable sensor network architectures
  • Software platforms and tools for sensor 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 http://www.icc2003.com/Author1.html
ICC 2003 paper format and can be up to 11 pages long.
Authors should submit a PDF version of their paper to snpa03@cs.itu.edu.tr.

Important Dates
Manuscript Due:   October 22, 2002
Acceptance Notification:   December 17, 2002
Final Manuscript Due:   January 14, 2003
Workshop Date:   May 11, 2003

Organization
Program Co-Chairs:

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

  • Taieb Znati (tznati@nsf.gov)
    University of Pittsburgh
    Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Technical Program Committee

  • Sebnem Baydere (Yeditepe University)
  • Azzedine Boukerche (University of North Texas)
  • Erdal Cayirci (Istanbul Technical University)
  • Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University)
  • Deborah Estrin (UCLA)
  • Zygmunt Haas (Cornell)
  • John Heidemann (ISI)
  • Ahmed Helmy (USC)
  • George Kesidis (Penn State)
  • Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC)
  • Sri Kumar (DARPA)
  • Geng-Sheng Kuo (National Chengchi University)
  • Stephen Olariu (Old Dominion University)
  • Sergio Palazzo (University of Catania)
  • Chiara Petrioli (Roma University)
  • Parmesh Ramanathan (University of Wisconsin)
  • Suresh Singh (Portland State University)
  • Ioannis Stavrakakis (University of Athens)
  • Roy Sumit (Intel Labs and University of Washington)
  • Stephen Wicker (Cornell)
  • Adam Wolisz (Technical University of Berlin)
  • Michele Zorzi (Universita' di Ferrara)

Publicity Co-Chair:

Sponsors
SNPA 2003 is sponsored by the following IEEE Communications Society Technical Committees:

  • Tactical Communications
  • Personal Communications
  • Radio Communications