ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

*WSNA 2003*

(ACM Mobicom 2003 Workshop)

Second ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and
Applications
in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2003
September 19, 2003
San Diego, CA, USA
Sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE

WSNA '03 Home Page: http://ceng.usc.edu/wsna03


Abstract Submission Deadline: *June 10, 2003*
Paper Submission Deadline: *June 17, 2003*

*SCOPE*

Tremendous technological advances have been made in the development of
low-cost sensor devices equipped with wireless network interfaces. The
design of large-scale sensor networks interconnecting hundreds of these
sensor nodes has attracted recent research attention. Such sensor
networks can be used in military, medical, industrial, and home
applications. Some of the key challenges deal with scalability of
network protocols to large number of nodes, design of simple and
efficient protocols for different network operations, mechanisms for
power-conservation, security mechanisms and protocols, data handling and
data querying techniques, data mining, data fusion, and the development
of exciting new applications that exploit the potential of wireless
sensor networks. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum
for researchers and technologists to present their contributions as
technical papers related to wireless sensor networks.

*TOPICS*

Papers are solicited in all research and applied areas related to
wireless sensor networks, which include but are not limited to:

    * Self-Organizing network architectures
    * Routing and Medium Access Control Protocols
    * Power-aware Protocol Design
    * Low-power Sensor Design
    * Novel Applications
    * Sensor Network Security
    * Data Compression and Data Fusion
    * Localization and Time Synchronization
    * Data Querying and Data Dissemination
    * Collaborative Signal Processing
    * Quality-of-Service
    * Operating Systems

Papers must not have appeared elsewhere, nor must they be under
concurrent submission to another workshop, conference or journal.

*SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Authors should
prepare a PostScript or Portable Document Format (PDF) version of their
paper. No other format will be accepted. For submission instructions,
see http://ceng.usc.edu/wsna03.

Submissions MUST conform to the following requirements:

    * The paper must be original material that has not been previously
      published nor is currently under review by another conference or
      journal.

    * Papers should be no longer than *12 pages* (two column is
      acceptable), in font no smaller than 10 points. (Note that
      *accepted* papers, when formatted for the proceedings, may not
      exceed *10 pages* in font no smaller than 9 points).

    * The paper should fit properly on US Letter paper (8.5x11 inches)

    * PostScript version 2 or later, or Portable Document Format (PDF)

    * Use only Computer Modern or standard Adobe printer fonts (/i.e./,
      Courier, Times, Roman, or Helvetica)

    * Other fonts may be used, but must be included in the
      PostScript/PDF file

    * The paper must be formatted for black and white printers and not
      color printers.

All contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted
papers will be available as part of the proceedings, at the workshop.

*IMPORTANT DATES*

    * Abstract Submission Deadline: June 10, 2003
    * Paper Submission Deadline: June 17, 2003
    * Acceptance Notification Deadline: July 26, 2003
    * Camera-Ready Due: August 6, 2003

*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*

*Workshop Steering Committee Chair:*

Prof. Ty Znati (NSF/Univ. of Pittsburgh), tznati@nsf.gov

*General Co-Chairs:*

Prof. Krishna M. Sivalingam
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
1000 Hilltop Circle, Room ECS 210
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD 21250
Voice: (410) 455-3961
Fax: (410) 455-3969
Email: krishna@cs.umbc.edu

Prof. C. S. Raghavendra
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2562.
Telephone: (213) 740-9133
Email: raghu@usc.edu

*Technical Program Co-Chairs:*

Prof. Parmesh Ramanathan,
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
4615 Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Tel: (608) 263-0557
Fax: (608) 262-1267
E-mail: parmesh@ece.wisc.edu

Prof. Ramesh Govindan
Univ. of Southern California
Department of Computer Science, SAL 300
Los Angeles, CA 90089.
Tel: (213) 740 4509
Fax: (213) 740 7285
Email: ramesh@usc.edu

*Publicity Chair*

Prof. Bhaskar Krishnamachari
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089.
Phone: (213) 821 2528
Email: bkrishna@usc.edu