IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications

Event Dates

Oct 01, 2018 - Oct 04, 2018

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Submission Deadline

May 29, 2018

For more than a decade, embedded wireless sensors and actuators have been

increasingly networked to continually narrow the gap between the physical

world and cyberspace. Domain-specific sensing deployments in scenarios

like industrial settings and home automation are becoming more and more

ubiquitous, particularly with the advent of novel sensing platforms which

allow for the seamless integration of sensing devices into everyday

environments. At the same time, data gathered through wireless sensor

network deployments empower applications in the emerging domains of smart

cities and smart infrastructures.

While enabling technologies have evolved into mature and widely available

solutions, insights gathered from real-world sensor network deployments

are still scarce and many practical issues in building sensor network

applications persist. A thorough understanding of these challenges from a

practical/systems perspective is still necessary. This especially applies

to insights from the areas of hardware platforms of sensor and actuator

nodes, their operating systems, the networking of nodes, and fresh

perspectives from field trials and applications.

This workshop aims at bringing together researchers from both academia and

industry to showcase their work and obtain feedback. It serves as a forum

for the sensing network research communities working on embedded sensing

systems to discuss open issues, novel solutions, and the future

development of wireless sensing in general. We encourage contributions

describing innovative work in the realms of wireless sensor networks,

cyber-physical systems, smart spaces, machine-to-machine communication,

the Internet of Things, and all related disciplines. Topics of interest

include, but are not limited to:

– Practical experiences from innovative real-world sensor network deployments

and applications

– Hands-on experiences with the integration of sensor networks and the

Internet of Things

– Middleware support for sensor networks

– Programming and debugging sensor networks

– Security, availability and dependability issues in sensor networks

– Experiences with new sensor hardware and node/platform designs

– Practical problems in implementing localization and time synchronization

– Experiences with communications protocols for the IoT, M2M, or CPS

– Practical medium access control protocols (MACs)

– Topology control and routing protocols in sensor network deployments

– Novel communication paradigms for wireless sensor networks

– Mobility management in sensor applications and deployments

– Fault-tolerance and troubleshooting sensor networks

– Experiences regarding energy management and network lifetime

– Experiences with energy harvesters and energy-sustainable designs

– Deployment, installation, and configuration support

– Management of large-scale sensor networks and sensing campaigns

– Interconnection between IP and sensor networks

– Interfacing with sensor networks using mobile computing devices

– Large-scale open sensor data sets from real deployments

– Integration of wireless sensor networks with smart city infrastructures

– Real-world use of WSN platforms in smart spaces and cyber-physical systems

– Sensor networking for smart power grids

– Practical experiences with wearable sensing technologies

Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three independent experts in

the field. Proceedings of the workshop will be published together with

those of IEEE LCN, and will be available in digital format from the IEEE

Xplore Digital Library.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently

under review by another conference, workshop or journal.

Regular (full) papers (10 pt font in two-column IEEE format) should

present novel perspectives and match with at least two of the topics

of interest of the workshop. Papers are expected to be 6 pages long,

yet submissions of up to 8 pages are allowed. Papers in excess of this

limit will not be considered for review or publication.

Papers must be submitted electronically via EDAS at:

(http://edas.info/N24451)

All papers must include title, complete contact information of all

authors, abstract and up to 5 keywords on the cover page. Further

information can be found at:

www.senseapp.org

IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission deadline (ext): 29 May 2018

Notification of acceptance: 6 July 2018

Camera ready manuscript due: 6 August 2018

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS:

Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal, Germany

Xenofon Fafoutis, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

PUBLICITY CHAIR:

James H. Pope, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:

Matthias Hollick, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Sanjay Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Cormac Sreenan, University College Cork, Ireland

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Neil Bergmann, University of Queensland, Australia

Carlo Alberto Boano, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal

David Boyle, Imperial College London, United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Rachel Cardell-Oliver, The University of Western Australia, Australia

Anna Förster, University of Bremen, Germany

Csaba Kiraly, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Letizia Marchegiani, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Alan Marchiori, Bucknell University, USA

George Oikonomou, University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain)

Georgios Papadopoulos, IMT Atlantique, France

Christian Renner, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

Olga Saukh, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Corinna Schmitt, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Philipp Sommer, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland

Leonardo Steinfeld, Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Kristof Van Laerhoven, University of Siegen, Germany

Dingwen Yuan, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany