Symposium on Sensor Networks.
Co-chairs: Salil Kanhere (University of NSW, Australia), Athanassios Boulis (NICTA)
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The Symposium on Sensor Networks aims to bring to together
leading researchers addressing the theory, implementation,
and applications of intelligent sensors, sensor networks,
and intelligent information processing systems. Papers are
sought on topics that include (but are not limited to):
- Fault Tolerance and Identification
- Network Scheduling
- Embedded Software for Sensor Networks
- Protocols in Sensor Networks
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Multimedia Sensor Networks
- Sensor Networks for Smart Grids
- Environmental Monitoring
- Distributed Information Processing
- Data Aggregation, Storage & Management
- Middleware in Sensor Networks
- Other applications of Sensor Networks
(Papers not suited to other symposia may be directed here)
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Symposium on Sensor Network Security.
Co-chairs: Roberto di Pietro (Università di Roma Tre, Italy), Yee Wei Law (University of Melbourne, Australia)
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Scope: Wireless sensor network (WSN) researchers are facing a
scenario where most of the fundamental research has been
done, but not so for security researchers. While most
practical problems in the lower layers of the protocol
stack have been solved, new security challenges continue
to surface, and this trend will continue so long as
protocols continue to be designed without any regard for
security. Despite advances in identifying potential
attacks against these protocols, it is foreseen that new
security weaknesses will continue to be found. As the
security techniques of WSNs are applied to related fields
such as healthcare sensor networks, smart grid and SCADA,
more challenges await to be solved.
The purpose of this symposium is to bring together
researchers and practitioners of the field with the goals
of publishing quality work on solving the aforementioned
problems, amongst a host of other major issues in WSN
security; and to promote discussion and collaboration. We
are inviting contributions addressing the topics of
interest, which include but are not limited to:
- Access control
- Network/physical intrusion detection and response
- Key management
- Secure localization
- Secure routing/MAC
- Countermeasures against RF jamming
- Secure clock synchronization
- Trust management / reputation-based framework
- Secure network reprogramming
- Steganography
- Security applications
- Privacy and anonymity
- Cryptographic protocol (design & verification)
- Cryptographic primitives (theory & implementation)
- Security policy and enforcement issues
- Security in related areas: body sensor networks, smart grid, SCADA etc.
A keynote address will be given by Dr Krishna Sampigethaya
(Boeing Research & Technology) as a part of this
symposia. Details are as follows:
Title:
Cyber-Physical Security of ADS-B in Future Air Traffic Management
Abstract:
Modern aviation must rise up to the challenge of safely,
securely and efficiently managing increasingly crowded
skies under growing passenger, business and societal
demands. The "e-enabled aircraft" with advanced sensing,
computing, communications and control capabilities will
play a central role in meeting this grand challenge. Using
aeronautical-specific, commercial as well as Internet
standards the e-enabled aircraft will tightly integrate
with off-board systems to transforming air traffic
management (ATM), flight operations and passenger
services. However, potential vulnerabilities of these new
sensing and data links threaten expected performance, user
acceptance and deployment costs in future airspace
systems. This talk will focus on a specific advanced
"cyber-physical" concept called Automatic Dependent
Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) that enables highly
accurate surveillance for ATM. The talk will present a
comprehensive framework and promising solutions for the
assessment and mitigation of threats to ADS-B.
Bio:
Krishna Sampigethaya is an advanced technologist at the Boeing
Research & Technology, Bellevue, WA, working on performance
assurance of cyber-physical systems, NextGen, vehicular networks,
and the smart grid. He received MS and PhD in electrical engineering
from the University of Washington. He is IEEE and AIAA member. He
was a program committee member for the 2008 NITRD workshop on
Transportation CPS, co-chair of the 2009 Army Research Office CPS
security workshop and co-organizer of SAE 2010 Future ATM Technology
Symposium. Dr. Sampigethaya is technical area chair for aviation
cyber-physical security at the 2009 and 2011 SAE AeroTech,
trustworthy aviation information systems area at the 2010-2011 AIAA
Infotech@Aerospace, 2011 IEEE Aerospace and 2011 IEEE DASC. He is
the founding chair for the SAE aviation cyber security technical
committee and co-editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE special
issue on cyber-physical systems. He has co-authored a paper
recognized with 2010 AIAA/IEEE DASC best paper award for NextGen
Surveillance session.
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Symposium on Advances in Optimization for Distributed Control, Information Fusion and Sensor Network Applications.
Co-chairs: Adrian N. Bishop (NICTA), Iman Shames (Australian National University, Australia)
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The Symposium on Advances in Optimization for Distributed
Control, Information Fusion and Sensor Network
Applications is a one-day event to be held in conjunction
with the 6th International Conference on Intelligent
Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Information Processing
(ISSNIP), in Brisbane, Australia during 7th-10th of
December, 2010.
Sensor networks and multi-agent systems typically involve
complex arrangements of simple systems with limited
communication capabilities. The dynamics of the resulting
systems are complex, and designing a globally optimal
system behaviour requires the solution to a typically
large optimization problem. In addition, the constraints
placed on the communication capabilities of the individual
systems means that centralized solutions, where each
sub-system transmits data to a central (and typically
larger) system, are not viable. As a result, the problem
of distributed optimization across networks with limited
communication capabilities has emerged as an important
area of research.
This sympoisum aims to highlight recent novel advances in
designing and/or applying optimization (or related) theory
in distributed scenarios such as those found in sensor
network and multi-agent system applications. In
particular, we invite contributions on topics including,
but not limited to, the following:
- Distributed, decentralized and/or cooperative optimization with applications in networked environments;
- Distributed synchronization and/or coordination with applications in networked environments;
- Distributed optimization under uncertainty and/or with limited capacity communication channels;
- Distributed multi-agent extremum seeking and/or function computation;
- Optimization with constraints (for example: real-time constraints, network topological constraints, etc);
- Convexification of distributed optimization protocols;
- Distributed Bayesian methods in sensor networks including distributed belief propogation and message passing;
- Design and implemetation of communication protocols for achieving distributed optimization algorithms;
- Novel (advances in) applications of distributed optimization such as target tracking with sensor networks, sensor
network localization, multi-agent formation control, sensor network coverage control, distributed consensus,
distributed assignment/coalition, distributed control and control across networks etc.
For more information click here.
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Symposium on Sensor Technologies and Information Processing in Healthcare.
Co-chairs: Ahsan H. Khandoker (University of Melbourne, Australia),
Daniel T. H. Lai (Victoria University, Australia),
Rezaul K. Begg (Victoria University, Australia)
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The symposium on Sensor Technologies and Information Processing in Healthcare will
be held in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor
Networks and Information Processing - 2010 (ISSNIP 2010), Brisbane, Australia during
December 7-10, 2010. The symposium will focus specifically on sensors, biosignal processing
and smart systems for healthcare applications ranging from biomedical diagnostics to online
patient monitoring.
The convergence of biomedical sensors, sensor networks and information processing creates
exciting opportunities for solving a variety of complex problems in healthcare. Healthcare
sensor networks are an emerging paradigm consisting of body sensor networks and in-situ
monitoring sensors. The aim of this symposium is to report research and recent developments in
applications of scientific principles and technologies to biomedical engineering and healthcare.
The program committee is soliciting papers for the following (but not limited) areas:
- Body area networks.
- Biomechanics and biometrics for health and biomedical applications.
- Applications in sport, human performance and rehabilitation.
- Bio-signals, signal processing and computational intelligence techniques for processing patient data.
- Mobile phone applications for clinical diagnostic, therapeutic and public health use by community health workers.
- Nanosensors , biosensors, sensor design and sensor fusion for improved diagnosis and monitoring.
- Low cost biosensor.
- Healthcare sensor network architectures and protocols.
- Security, power management and scheduling in healthcare sensor networks.
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Symposium on Cognitive Wireless Sensing Systems for Factory and Logistics Automation.
Co-chairs: Paul Havinga (University of Twente, Netherlands)
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Cognitive, embedded wireless systems have the potential to
revolutionize the way factory and logistics automation is
carried out by increasing productivity, flexibility and
safety while reducing costs. Such systems may be deployed
in a variety of environments such as within the building
infrastructure, in tools and machinery and embedded in
garments or clothing of personnel. This would enable
continuous fine-grained monitoring of various processes
and operations in typically harsh environments. In
addition, the in-built intelligence could allow certain
nodes to individually or collaboratively analyse the
sensed data and take autonomous decisions to perform
certain actuation operations. Cognitive systems could also
play an important role in providing real-time feedback to
factory or logistics personnel to help improve
productivity and safety.
There are, however, numerous challenges in developing such
systems. For example, the harsh radio environment present
within factories and warehouses makes it essential to
develop robust networking protocols that are highly fault
tolerant. The limited memory and computational resources
on every node means that collaborative algorithms are
required to process the sensed data. Certain nodes in the
network may be powered using harvested energy (e.g. solar,
vibration, etc.). This would require energy management
algorithms that would help the system deal with variable
levels of energy resources over time. The networking and
data processing algorithms need to be highly scalable and
support heterogeneous network architectures as a typical
large scale network may involve thousands of nodes with
differing capabilities in terms of sensing, data
generation, processing power and network capability.
This workshop provides a platform for both academic and
industrial researchers to demonstrate how cognitive
wireless sensing technologies can enhance the operation of
present day factory and logistics operations. The topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Robust networking protocols (MAC, Routing, Transport, Time synchronization, QoS, Mobility support).
- Sensor information processing (Calibration, Adaptive sampling, Signal processing).
- Distributed algorithms for data management (Querying, Data aggregation, Coding, Storage).
- Theoretical and simulation-based modelling (Mobility models, Fundamental bounds and formulations).
- Energy harvesting (Variable energy management algorithms).
- In-network data interpretation (Event detection and classification, Situation and context awareness, On-line training and learning, Activity recognition).
- Sensor-actuator coordination (Heterogeneous architectures, Distributed control, Adaptive feedback mechanisms).
- System support (Operating systems, Network monitoring and management, Network reprogramming, Simulation and debugging tools).
- Services (Service discovery, Localization and tracking).
- Real-world experiences (Novel applications, Deployments, Experimental testbeds, Measurements).
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First International Workshop on Infrastructures and Services for Sustainable and Smarter Cities (I3SC 2010).
General Co-chairs: M. Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia;
Alexander Gluhak, University of Surrey, UK;
Laurent Herault, CEA-LETI, France
Program Co-chairs:Slaven Marusic, University of Melbourne, Australia;
Srdjan Krco, Ericsson, Serbia
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The 2010 International Workshop on Infrastructures and
Services for Sustainable and Smarter Cities is a one-day
event held in conjunction with the 6th International
Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and
Information Processing (ISSNIP 2010). This
inter-disciplinary workshop aims to bring together
researchers and practitioners from a variety of fields,
exploring the application of emerging ICT technologies
in order to enable a smarter and more sustainable living
in today's cities.
The last decades have seen a significant rise in urban
population. More than half the of the world's population
currently lives in cities [1] and in developed
regions such as Europe, more than 80% of citizens live
in urban areas. As urban environments are becoming
denser and more complex spaces, this trend is not
sustainable for a number of reasons:
- Inadequate transport systems, e.g. leading to congestion and increased emissions
- Inadequate utility services, e.g. leading to water shortages or energy outages, overuse of utilities, problems with garbage disposal, excessive environmental pollution (carbon footptint)
- Social structures, e.g. increase in crime and fall of family values
- Inadequate city services, e.g. operations, social care, government facilities
Recent technological advances in the areas of Ubiquitous
Computing, Urban Informatics, Social Computing, Machine
Learning and the Internet of Things offer the potential
to address many of the above mentioned challenges. As
these technologies are starting to mature, a deeper
understanding is required as how to apply and combine
them in today's cities in order to build smarter and
more sustainable urban living environments.
The workshop will feature a selection of invited talks
and panel discussion, from industry, academic and
governmental perspectives.
Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):
- Smart city infrastructures:
- Larger scale deployment of sensors, smart devices, and RFID in buildings and urban areas
- Interaction capabilities with citizens in public spaces
- Participatory sensing
- City centric service platforms
- Deployment issues of smart infrastructure in urban environments
- Experimental testbeds and simulation environments
- Innovative applications and services for sustainable living cities addressing areas such as:
- Reducing carbon foot print of cities
- Managing user side demand for utilities
- Efficient management of traffic and transportation
- Increased inclusion of citizens
- Studies or services contributing towards an understanding of the behaviour of city eco-systems
- Long lasting behaviour change towards sustainability
Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (up
to 6 pages in length) electronically through the
EDAS system and must
be original material not currently under review by another
conference or journal. Author guidelines are available
here.
All submitted papers will be subjected to multiple
independent peer reviews. All accepted papers will be
published by the IEEE Press and appear in the Conference
Proceedings and on IEEE Xplore.
Consult workshop Call for Papers or Program Chairs for
workshop specific submission deadlines.
[1] United Nations, Department of Economic and Social
Affairs, Population Division, "World Urbanisation
Prospects: The 2005 Revision"
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ISSNIP/CREON Workshop - Building coral reef sensor networks as systems of systems.
Co-chairs: Sally Holbrook (University of California, Santa Barbra, USA), Scott Bainbridge (Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australia)
Program: available here.
Over 2010 the CREON group have been working on the CREON
Interoperability Experiment (CIE) where near identical
sensor networks have been deployed at a number of sites
(initially two sites, Moorea in French Pacific and
Myrmidon Reef on the Great Barrier Reef) and work has been
underway to develop common frameworks for the integration
of these into a single system.
The project looks to understand the issues in integrating
two different systems into a single resulting `system of
systems' with the goal of identifying and then dealing
with the issues that arise. The resulting work will be a
common framework that can be used as a template for the
development of future sites and sensor networks. The aim
is to do the integration work and so to lower the cost of
entry for other parties and start building the concept of
a system of systems held together by a well defined
integration framework.
The one day workshop would be to
review the status of the various CREON sites and to look
at the progress of the Interoperability Experiment with a
view to planning upcoming work. The workshop could also
tie in with other components of the ISSNIP conference and
in particular to demonstrate and showcase real world
applications of marine sensor networks.
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