to be held in conjunction with
The 2nd IEEE International Conference on
Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS-2005)
Washington, DC, USA,
November 7-10, 2005
This workshop covers comprehensively the algorithmic issues in the ‘hot’ area of ad hoc and sensor networking. The design of data communication techniques in multi-hop ad hoc networks has challenges at all layers of communication: physical, medium access control (MAC), network, transport and application layers. This workshop concentrates on the network layer. Network layer problems can be divided into two groups: data communication, and topology control.
In data communication problems, such as routing, quality-of-service routing, geocasting, multicasting, and broadcasting, the primary goal is to successfully fulfill a given communication task between nodes in an ad hoc network. The secondary task is to minimize the communication overhead (since bandwidth in wireless communication is typically limited) and power consumption by battery operated nodes. In service access problem, which also can be treated as a data communication problem, the primary goal is to provide or receive service from a fixed infrastructure with other hosts serving as relays if necessary. An example is wireless Internet access where packets are allowed to make multiple hops from machine to machine to get to/from the Internet.
Topology control problems are further subdivided into neighbour discovery and network organization problems. In the neighbour discovery problem, the problem is to detect neighboring nodes located within transmission radius. For example, sensors thrown into the field may be pre-programmed to start functioning at certain time, and their first task is then to detect neighboring sensors. In the network organization problem, each node should decide what communication links to establish with neighbouring nodes (an example is Bluetooth scatternet formation problem), and what power management schemes to adopt (examples are ‘sleep’ period operations and adjusting transmission radii).
Sensor networks are currently recognized as one of the priority research areas (for example, a multi-disciplinary program on sensors and sensor networks was launched in 2003 at the US National Science Foundation) and research activities are booming recently. The applications of sensor networks are envisioned primarily for monitoring the environment (e.g. motion detection, chemicals, temperature) or as embedded systems (e.g. biomedical sensor engineering). This workshop will address ongoing research on this ‘hot’ topic, including problems such as: physical properties, sensor training, security through intelligent node cooperation, medium access, sensor area coverage with random and deterministic placement, object location, sensor position determination, energy efficient broadcasting and activity scheduling, routing, connectivity, data dissemination and gathering, sensor centric quality of routing, temporal message ordering, path exposure, tree reconfiguration, topology construction, and transport layer.
The main paradigm shift is to apply localized (or greedy) schemes as opposed to existing protocols requiring global information. Localized algorithms are distributed algorithms where simple local node behaviour achieves a desired global objective. Localized protocols provide scalable solutions, that is, solutions for wireless networks with an arbitrary number of nodes, which is the main goal of this plan. Sensor and rooftop/mesh networks, for instance, have hundreds or thousands of nodes.
The main objective of the workshop is to present state of the art research results on data communication and topology control in rapidly growing area of ad hoc and sensor networks, with emphasizes on localized techniques.We are seeking papers that describe original and unpublished contributions addressing various aspects of ad hoc networking. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Medium access control
Analytical, mobility and validation models for ad hoc networks
Hybrid networks and wireless Internet
Security in ad hoc networks
Data management issues, query processing, and data delivery
Routing, broadcasting and multicasting in ad hoc networks
Energy-efficient protocols for ad hoc networks
Quality of service in medium access control and routing
Topology construction and maintenance in ad hoc networks
Neighborhood discovery and mobility management
Papers must not exceed 10 single-spaced and two-column pages using at least 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inches pages. See style files, author guidelines and instructions for details. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, as proceedings of the MASS2005 workshops. Please submit your papers through e-mail to both Chairs.
- Manuscript Submission: July 7, 2005 (Extended)
- Acceptance Notification: July 29, 2005
- Final Manuscript Due: August 26, 2005
Dr. Pedro M. Ruiz
Dept. Information and Comms. Engineering, University of Murcia, Spain
pedrom@dif.um.esDr. David Simplot-Ryl
IRCICA/LIFL, Univ. Lille 1, INRIA Futurs, France
David.Simplot@lifl.fr
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