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The International Workshop on Sensor Network Architecture (WSNA'07)

April 24, 2007 - Cambridge(MIT Campus), Massachusetts, USA.
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Overview

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), that consist of thousands of
low-cost sensor nodes, have been used in many promising
applications, such as military surveillance, infrastructure
protection, scientific exploration and smart environments.
Researchers in this area have accumulated a large portfolio of
network services and middleware, effectively addressing a wide range
of individual research problems. However, because of the limited
understanding on how to integrate these components effectively, we
are facing an urgent and challenging question on how to build sensor
network systems efficiently. To facilitate collaboration on and
convergence of future sensor network software and protocol
architecture, the International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Network
Architecture is seeking novel ideas which specify the essential
principles that guide sensor network software design. In particular,
we are interested in architecture-level service and protocol
interfaces, network function decomposition and partitioning,
composition methodologies of software components, and high-level
engineering of sensor network protocols. Observe that this workshop
is not concerned with hardware architecture and component
interfaces. This topic is more appropriate for SPOTS. Also, the
workshop is not concerned with design of any specific protocols and
middleware services. Such specific components are more appropriate
for IPSN and/or SPOTS. Further, an important area of special
interest is a general architecture for wide-area sensor networks
that integrates homogeneous/heterogeneous geographically distributed
sensor networks together seamlessly. Suggestions and architectural
principles for a future world-wide sensor web are highly sought. We
strongly encourage philosophical position papers that bring out
interesting and novel ideas at an early stage in their
investigation.

Important Dates

Papers Due: Friday, Dec 8th, 2006
Notification: Friday, Jan 29th, 2007
Camera Ready: Friday, Feb 23rd, 2007
Conference: Tuesday April 24, 2007

Submission Guideline

All papers will be submitted electronically, in Portable Document
Format (PDF). Instructions for submission will be available at
IPSN'07 website: http://www.cse.wustl.edu/ipsn07.html.

Submission must meet the following criteria:

A paper must be original material that has not been previously
published nor is currently under review by another conference or
journal. Submitted papers should be no longer than 6 pages in IEEE
two-column format for conferences.

Each paper will be reviewed by the Technical Programming Committee.
Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Authors
are required to attend the conference to present their work.

Organization Committee

Program Co-Chairs:
John A. Stankovic University of Virginia
Tian He University of Minnesota

Technical Program Committee

Jun-Hong Cui University of Connecticut
Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California
Deepak Ganesan University of Massachusetts Amherst
Donggang Liu University of Texas at Arlington
Jie Liu Microsoft Research
Chenyang Lu Washington University in St. Louis
Kamin Whitehouse University of Virginia
Wensheng Zhang Iowa State University
Zhi-Li Zhang University of Minnesota
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