Upcoming workshops and conferences in the field

Conference Submission Deadline Scope
The 2012 International Workshop on Ubiquitous Service Systems and Technologies USST 2012, Liverpool, England, UK, Jun 25-27, 2012 Mar 21, 2012 USST 2012 covers novel theories, designs, and applications on ubiquitous services and environments.
3nd International Workshop on Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks - MOBISENSOR 2012, Hangzhou, China, May 18, 2012 Mar 5, 2012 The mobility extension represents a more recent research subject in sensor networking; mobility opens up a whole new level of research opportunities and challenges in WSNs, and significantly expands the types of applications for which WSNs can be used. This workshop aims to highlight the benefits and challenges from such a step and outline the state of the art in this particularly promising research area.
The 11th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless–ADHOC-NOW 2012, Belgrade, Serbia, Jul 9-11, 2012 Feb 17, 2012 Since its creation in 2002, the International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW) has become a well-established and well known event dedicated to wireless and mobile computing. It serves as a forum for interesting discussions on ongoing research and new contributions. The conference addresses both experimental and theoretical research in the areas of ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networks and vehicular networks. It focuses on all issues from link layer up to
the application layer.
IEEE SENSORS 2012 ,Taipei, Taiwan, 28-31 October 2012. 30 Jun 2012 IEEE SENSORS 2012 is intended to provide a forum for research scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present their latest research findings, ideas, and applications in the area of sensors and sensing technology.


 

References on Wireless Sensor Networks

Arhitectures

   
Protocols
J. A. Stankovic
T.F. Abdelzaher C. Lu
L. Sha
J. C. Hou
"Real-Time Communication and Coordination in Embedded Sensor Networks"
Proceedings of the IEEE, volume 91, pages 1002-1022, July 2003
This paper presents some networking challenges in sensor networks:
  o MAC Layer
     § Scheduling-Based MAC Protocols;
     § Collision-Free Real-Time MAC;
     § Contention-Based MAC Protocols;
     § Hybrid MAC Protocol;
  o Network Layer
     § Ad-Hoc Routing Protocol;
     § Multicast and Anycast;
  o Transport Layer

(Bogdan)
Middleware
Q. Fang
F. Zhao
L. Guibas
"Counting Targets: Building and Managing Aggregates in Wireless Sensor Networks"
Palo Alto Research Center Technical Report P2002-10298, June 2002

This paper presents a distributed protocol for constructing sensor aggregates in the context of counting distinct targets in a sensor field.
+: .portability at the level of hardware resources
    .good performances (analytical analisys and simulation - but no experiments)
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.power consumption not addressed
    .performance depends much on inter-nodes distances, topology and communication radius
    .thin support for query processing

(Dan)
Applications - WSN + VideoProcessing in context of WSN
 Rob McCready Real-Time Face Detection on a Configurable Hardware System"
Field-Programmable Logic and Applications, 10th International Workshop, FPL 2000, Villach, Austria, LNCS 1896, Springer 2000
It presents the design of a real-time face detection system and its implementation on a configurable hardware platform (Transmogrifier-2a, FPGA), which use a neural-network-like face detector.

+: .fast, robust
     .hardware efficient (at the level of TM2a)
- : .require ÷31500 Logic Cells running at 12.5 MHz
    .assume that all faces will be approximately upright and facing the camera

(Dan)

 

 
 


 


 

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