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Due to many requests SUBMISSION DEADLINE is EXTENDED to : JUNE 7, 2004
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                           SANPA 2004
                 Second International Workshop on
        Sensor and Actor Network Protocols and Applications

            August 22, 2004 Boston, Massachusetts, USA
               in Conjunction with MobiQuitous 2004
           *EXTENDED* Submission Deadline: JUNE 7, 2004
                     http://www.sanpa.org

                        Call For Papers
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Scope:

Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs) are fast emerging as a new
sensing paradigm based on the collaborative effort of large number of
sensors deployed close to or inside the phenomenon to be observed, and
have the potential of providing diverse services to numerous
applications. The realization of WSANs require intensive technical
research efforts especially in power aware scalable wireless ad hoc
communications protocols due to their unusual application requirements
and unique constraints such as the following:

- WSANs are generally composed of large number of sensor nodes that
  have limited computational and storage capacity.
- In many applications, sensor nodes can be randomly scattered in
  unreachable regions.
- The sensed phenomenon must be acted on by the actor nodes in field
  in a timely and accurate manner.
- The lifetime of a sensor network is generally limited to the battery
  lifetime of sensor nodes.

SANPA 2004 is intended to provide a forum for researchers to present
their contributions as technical papers related to communication
protocols for WSANs, data management, access, aggregation and fusion
techniques, and sensor network applications. SANPA 2004 will continue
and build upon the success of SNPA 2003 (held in conjunction with ICC
2003). The papers solicited in SANPA 2004 cover a variety of topics
including but not limited to:

- Communication protocols for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks at
  all layers
- Novel sensor/actor network applications and services
- Self organizing and scalable sensor/actor network architectures
- Software platforms and tools for sensor/actor network application
  development
- Energy efficient medium access control, error control, and traffic
  management protocols
- Energy efficient system services such as localization and time
  synchronization
- Robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing
- Mechanisms, protocols and algorithms for authenticated, secure
  communication
- Application specific network and system services, including
  data-centric routing, attribute based addressing and location
  management
- Data querying and dissemination
- Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion

Submission Instructions:

The papers should confirm with the MobiQuitous paper format
(www.mobiquitous.org) and can be up to 11 pages long. Authors should
submit a PDF version of their paper to sanpa@ece.gatech.edu. For more
information about the workshop, see http://www.sanpa.org/.

Papers of particular merit will be published in the Ad Hoc Networks
Journal (Elsevier Science).

Important Dates:

Manuscript Due: *EXTENDED*    June 7, 2004
Acceptance Notification:      July 9, 2004
Final Manuscript Due:        July 23, 2004
Workshop Date:             August 22, 2004

Organization Committee:

 Program Co-Chairs:

   Erdal Cayirci (erdal@ece.gatech.edu)
   Department of Computer Engineering
   Istanbul Technical University
   Istanbul, Turkey

   Raghupathy Sivakumar (siva@ece.gatech.edu)
   School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
   Georgia Institute of Technology
   Atlanta, GA 30332-0250

 Publicity Chair:

   Ozgur Baris Akan (akan@ece.gatech.edu)
   Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
   Middle East Technical University
   Ankara, Turkey

 Technical Program Committee:

   Ahmed Helmy (University of Southern California)
   Andreas Willig (University of Potsdam)
   Bhaskar Khrisnamachari (University of Southern California)
   Chiara Petrioli (University of Roma)
   Eylem Ekici (Ohio State University)
   Holger Karl (Technical University of Berlin)
   Jaudelice C. de Oliveira (Drexel University)
   Kay Roemer (ETH Zurich)
   Paul Havinga (University of Twente)
   Philippe Bonet (Univ. of Copenhagen)
   Prasun Sinha (Ohio State University)
   Sebnem Baydere (Yeditepe University)
   Sergio Palazzo (University of Catania)
   Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University)
   Vedat Coskun (Naval Academy)
   Wei Ye (USC/ISI)
   Wendi Heinzelman (Univ. of Rochester)
   Wenye Wang (North Carolina State University)
   Xudong Wang (Kiyon Inc.)