THEMES

Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks (HWISE) , supported by recent technological advances in low power wireless communications along with silicon integration of various functionalities such as sensing, communications, intelligence and actuations are emerging as a critically important disruptive computer class based on a new platform, networking structure and interface that enable novel, low cost, high volume applications such as nuclear, biological and chemical attack detection and protection, home automation, battlefield surveillance and environmental monitoring. Several of such applications have been difficult to realize because of problems involved with inputting data from sensors directly in to actor systems. To fullfull their large range of applications sensor and actor networks will collaborate with other wired and wireless systems including WLANs, Cellular network and grid systems The research comunity is working to develop high performance computing solutions to problems arising from the complexities of these sensor and actor network systems. The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

TOPICS

• Scalable Architecture, Algorithms and Complexity Issues for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
• Communication protocols for Heterogenous Wireless Sensor Networks at all layers
• Distributed Sensor and Actor Network Tasking and Self-Organization
• Data compression, association, aggregation
• Distributed Detection / Classification Methods
• Distributed Sensor Networks - Networking / Caching Issues
• Fault tolerant HWISE and diagnostic techniques
• Software platforms and tools for sensor/actor network application development
• Managing Resource Constraints
• Energy efficient medium access control, error control, and traffic management protocols
• Energy efficient system services such as localization and time synchronization
• Mechanisms, protocols and algorithms for authenticated, secure communication
• Better tradeoffs between security and performance
• Learning Patterns from Distributed Sensor Sources
• Robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing
• Mobility issues related to integration sensor-actor systems
• Data querying, storage and dissemination
• Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion
• Coordination, Integration and Synchronization in Distributed Sensor and Actor Networks
• Application specific network and system services, including data-centric routing, attribute based addressing and location management
• QoS in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
• Interopratibility among Sensor networks, WLANs, Cellular, Satellite and wired networks
• Applications of HWISE in Biology, Manufacturing, Medical Science and Engineering

Final Submission Deadline:    March 20, 2005
Authors Notification:    April 5, 2005
Final Manuscript Due:   April 21, 2005

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION

Submit a full paper not more than 6 pages (IEEE Computer Society proceedings Manuscripts: two column, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can fing instructions for the IEEE CS proceedings Manuscripts at the following web page: http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.

Contact author must input the following information at the HWISE2005 web site: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author, about 200 word abstract, and five keywords. Prepare your paper in PDF file (Adobe format), and submit it to the following web site:


http://133.14.18.107/~icpads2005/workshop1/REG-paper/

When you submit a paper, please send a copy (pdf file) to durresi@csc.lsu.edu with the following information: paper title, author's name, postal address, email address, abstract, and keywords. Please specify your email subject as "HWISE2005 paper submission".

Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance.

PAPER PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be published as proceedings by IEEE Computer Society Press.

JOURNAL PUBLICATION

Selected HWISE-2005 papers will be considered for special issues at:
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing - IJWMC

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.

Workshop Co-Chairs

Arjan Durresi, Louisiana State University, USA
Leonard Barolli, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan

Advisory Co-Chair

Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Advisory and Technical Committee

Ozgur Baris Akan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Anish Arora, The Ohio State University, USA
Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Oklahoma University, USA
Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Genci Capi, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Erdal Cayirci, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
David Culler, UC Berkeley, USA
Eylem Ekici, The Ohio State University, USA
Tomoya Enokido, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Anthony Ephremides, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Deborah Estrin, UCLA, USA
Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
Mukul Goyal, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA
Frank Hsu, Fordham University, USA
S.Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University, USA
Raj Jain, Nayna Networks/The Ohio State University, USA
Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
Sastri Kota, Harris Corporation, USA
Akio Koyama, Yamagata University, Japan
Jiandong Li, Xidian University, China
Qingchong John Liu, Oakland University, USA
Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
Amitabh Mishra, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Vojislav Misic, University of Manitoba, Canada
Asis Nasipuri, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Jaudelice C. de Oliveira, Drexel University, USA
Sergio Palazzo, The University of Catania, Italy
Parameswaran Ramanathan, University of Wisconsin, USA
Yoshitaka Shibata, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan
Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
John A. Stankovic, University of Virginia, USA
Kaoru Sugita, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Tuna Tugcu, Bogazici University, Turkey
Dong Xuan, The Ohio State University, USA
Takaya Yamazato, Nagoya University, Japan
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Mark Yarvis, Intel, USA
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Feng Zhao, Microsoft, USA

For further questions please contact:

Arjan Durresi,
Department of Computer Sciences
Louisiana State University
291 Coates Hall, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Tel: +1-225-578-3902
Fax: +1 225-578-1465
Email: durresi@csc.lsu.edu

or

Leonard Barolli,
Department of Information and Communication Engineering
Faculty of Information Engineering
Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT)
3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 811-0295, Japan
Tel.: +81-92-606-4970
Fax: +81-92-606-0758
E-mail: barolli@fit.ac.jp