RTSS (the premier conference on Real Time Systems) will meet in Lisbon,
Portugal between December 5-8, 2004. In an effort to cross-fertilize with
related areas in embedded systems, RTSS is undergoing a shift from a
single-track conference to a multi-track conference. This year, RTSS 2004
will have a special track devoted to real-time communication and sensor
networks.

This special track will have its own program committee (comprising
researchers from the sensor network community) that will independently
select papers for the special track.

The paper submission deadline is May 1, 2004, and details can be found in
the appended CFP, as well as at the RTSS web site:
http://www.cs.unc.edu/rtss04

I encourage you to consider submission to the special track and look
forward to your interest.

Best regards,
James H. Anderson and Jennifer C. Hou

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Real-Time Communication and Sensor Network Track at RTSS-2004
December 5-8, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal

Theme

Driven by advances in MEMS micro-sensors, wireless networking, and
embedded processing, ad-hoc networks of sensors are becoming increasingly
available for commercial and military applications such as environmental
monitoring (e.g., traffic, habitat, security), industrial sensing and
diagnostics (e.g., factory, appliances), monitoring critical
infrastructures (e.g., power grids, water distribution, waste disposal),
and collecting data for battlefield awareness.

Sensor networks is an interdisciplinary research area, which spans the
areas of signal processing/detection/estimation, networking and protocols,
embedded systems, data bases and information management, as well as
distributed algorithms. It opens up new research venues, which include
sensor tasking and control, tracking and localization, sensor data fusion,
communication protocols that address timeliness, network coverage,
connectivity, and capacity, as well as system/software architecture and
design methodologies. Moreover, all these issues have to consider many
cross-cutting requirements such as efficiency/cost tradeoff, robustness,
self-organization, fault-tolerance, scalability, and network longevity.

Topics of Interest

This special track calls for articles that highlight technical issues from
physical device design, signal processing, network protocols/algorithms,
to revolutionary new applications enabled by sensor network technology.
In particular, we are seeking contributions in all aspects of sensor
networks.  Of particular interests are

(i) papers that study the fundamental performance and behavior limits of
sensor networks with respect to sensor network capacity, coverage,
connectivity, and/or lifetime.  As wireless sensor networks must operate
under extreme resource constraints, an understanding of the fundamental
performance limits of such networks will provide valuable insights into
what designs make sense and can help identify areas in which theory
promises performance much better than that attained by existing designs.

(ii) papers that devise algorithms which realize certain sensor network
operation, such as localization, time synchronization and target tracking.
Papers that compare alternative algorithms/approaches with respect to
various sensor network requirements are also sought for.

(iii) papers that deal with system implementations, experiments, and
experiences in application domains.  At an early stage of sensor network
development, one can analyze and predict network behavior through
simulation and theoretical reasoning.  However, a true evaluation of
system performance can only be obtained through implementation and direct
measurement and experimentation of the prototype.  Hence papers that
report the system implementation issues with an emphasis on the
cross-layer design tradeoffs will shed lights on how effective the overall
system design is.

 Example topical areas of interests include, but not limited to

 * Coding and information theory
 * Detection, classification, and estimation
 * Distributed networked sensing and control
 * Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion
 * Data-centric routing and attribute based addressing
 * Energy efficient medium access control and resource management
 * Localization, tracking and time synchronization
 * Network coverage, connectivity, and longevity
 * Query processing and optimization
 * Security
 * Simulation environments and systems prototyping
 * Sensor network applications and services

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: May 1, 2004
* Acceptance notification: Aug 1, 2004
* Camera-ready manuscripts due: Sept 1, 2004
* Symposium: Dec 5-8, 2004

PAPER SUBMISSION

For up-to-date information on paper submission and the conference,
please visit the conference web site:
    http://www.cs.unc.edu/rtss04


RTSS 2004 Real-Time Communication and Sensor Network Track Program Committee

Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Virginia)
Marco Caccamo (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Bhaskar Krishnamachari (University of Southern California)
Chang-Gun Lee (Ohio State University)
Xiaoyang Li (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Jie Liu (Palo Alto Research Center)
Chenyang Lu (Washington Univ at St. Luis)
Haiyun Luo (University of California at Los Angeles)
Parmesh Ramanathan (Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison)
Akbar Sayeed (Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison)
Lui Sha (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Jack Stankovia (University of Virginia)
Fan Ye (University of California at Los Angeles)