Symposium on Sensor Networks

Introduction

The vision of wireless sensor networks has over the last 10 years inspired research into computing systems and applications that become pervasively embedded in our everyday environments, and that bring the unique flexibility of digital technology to the activities around which our lives evolve. Caused by rapid progress in technology, this early research tended to focus on experimental prototypes of infrastructures, devices, and applications. As the field is progressing, the most important research challenge is to move beyond prototypes toward sustainable systems for use in applications ranging from environmental monitoring, security, and ambient intelligence.

Therefore, this symposium aims at bringing together designers, engineers and researchers to explore two complementary viewpoints:

• A device-centric, technology-driven view: concerning intelligent sensors, sensor networks and information processing for a new generation of networked devices and environments.
• A service-centric, application-driven view: exploring architectures, techniques, and algorithms for distributed applications made possible by the diffusion of ambient communication and cooperating objects.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Smart distributed sensors.
• Self organising network protocols.
• Self-calibration.
• Distributed localization techniques and applications.
• Distributed algorithms for information retrieval systems.
• Interaction of networking and context.
• Middleware and programming models.
• Context aware applications using sensor networks.
• Real applications and testbeds.
• Commercial applications and market studies.

The symposium is organized under the umbrella of the European projects e-Sense and Smart Surroundings.

Paper Submission

Paper submissions are open here.

Chair:

• Paul Havinga (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Tim Wark (CSIRO, Australia)