The REALWSN'08 Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks

The purpose of the third Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the area of sensor networks, with focus on real-world experiments or deployments of wireless sensor networks.

When working with real-world experiments or deployments, many new issues arise: the network environment may be composed of a variety of different technologies, leading to very heterogeneous network structures; software development for large scale networks poses new types of problems; prototype networks may differ significantly from the deployed system; actual sensor network deployments may need a complex combination of autonomous and manual configuration. Furthermore, results obtained through simulation are typically not directly applicable to operational networks and it is therefore imperative for the community to produce results from experimental research.

Authors are invited to submit papers (5 pages, double column, 9 or 10 point font size) for presentation at the workshop. Papers will be selected based on originality, technical merit and relevance. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Paper templates are here: 9 point ACM templates, or 10 point ACM templates. For sample .tex files for the 10 point templates, see the ACM SenSys 2007 templates .

All topics pertaining to real-world wireless sensor networks are of interest, including but not limited to:

• Experiences with real-world deployments
• Experimental validation/refutation of previous simulation results obtained by others
• Real-world performance of self-organization and self-management
• Debugging, testing, and management
• Deployment and configuration
• Applications in medicine, industry, science, environmental monitoring, etc.
• Security and trust
• Scalability in practice
• Development and prototyping platforms
• Operating systems, sensor network programming paradigms, and languages
• Middleware for heterogeneous networks
• Real-time and dependability issues
• Hardware support for real-world sensor networks
• Robustness at all levels: communication, software, hardware
• Energy efficient protocols
• Hardware and software methods for energy measurement and profiling

Important dates

Electronic submissions due: 10 February, 2008 FIRM DEADLINE - no extensions will be given
Notification of acceptance: 2 March, 2008
Camera-ready copy due: 13 March, 2008
Workshop: 1 April 2008

Paper Submission

Paper submissions are handled through EDAS. Go to this page to submit a paper: REALWSN 2008 paper submission.

Organizers

Workshop Chair:

• Thiemo Voigt, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
  

Technical program committee chairs:

• Adam Dunkels, Swedish Institute of Computer Science
  
• Pedro José Marron, University of Bonn, Germany
  

Technical program committee:

• Muneeb Ali, TU Delft, The Netherlands
• Björn Andersson, Institute Polytechnic Porto
• Jan Beutel, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Torsten Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State University, USA
• Saumitra M. Das, Purdue University, USA
• Kasun De Zoysa, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Carlo Fischione, UC Berkeley, USA
• Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Wen Hu, CSIRO, Australia
• Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Koen Langendoen, TU Delft, The Netherlands
• Luis Orozco, University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain
• Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy
• Joe Polastre, Sentilla, USA
• Utz Rödig, University of Lancaster, UK
• Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Kay Römer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Vlasios Tsiatsis, Ericsson Research
• Jochen Schiller, FU Berlin, Germany
• Cormac Sreenan, UC Cork, Ireland
• Arno Wacker, University of Duisburg, Germany