DWSAN4CIP 2009 - DWSAN4CIP 2009 International Workshop on Dependable Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks for Critical Infrastructure Protection

DWSAN4CIP 2009 International Workshop on Dependable Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks for Critical Infrastructure Protection

http://www.wsan4cip.eu/dwsan4cip

October 12 - 14, 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia



Technically Sponsored by
IEEE Communications Society Russia Northwest Chapter

Thematically supported by EU FP7 project WSAN4CIP



OVERVIEW:

It is hard to overestimate the role of ICT systems in operational cycles of modern industry and life supporting infrastructures. ICT control systems are used to continuously monitor the state of industrial processes and status of critical infrastructures. Over the last few years Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSAN) technology appeared as an ideal technological building block to improve the reliability and availability of ICTs in critical operational environments. On the other hand WSANs themselves become part of a critical infrastructures and processes. Whenever another layer of complexity is added to a system, this opens new possibilities for system failures, misuse or malicious attacks. The critical prerequisite for WSANs to be adopted in performance critical applications is their dependability, i.e. the ability of a system to deliver specified services to the user.

It is, however, by far not trivial to make WSANs dependable for variety of applications in different operation environments and having different performance requirements. For DWSAN workshop we solicit original contributions aiming at achieving dependability of WSAN technology on different layers.
Experiences from real-life deployment of dependable WSANs, application dependent WSAN design methodologies, dependable MAC, network and transport protocols, general issues of reliability, security in dependable WSANs are some of the key research topics to be discussed during the workshop.


The goal of the workshop is to present high-quality results in the field, and to provide a framework for research collaboration through focused discussions that will designate future research efforts and directions. In this context, the program committee will accept only a limited number of papers that meet the criteria of originality, presentation quality and topic relevance.

Workshop Topics

The workshop objectives will be pursued through highly technical sessions organized thematically and keynote talks offered by recognized experts. Topics of interest to DWSAN 2009 include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Real life experience from deployment of wireless sensor networks in critical applications
* Methodologies for assessment of performance requirements
* Methodologies for systematic design of WSAN communication architecture
* Application of control theory for cross-layer optimization of dependable communication protocols for WSAN
* Dependable MAC protocols
* Dependable routing protocols
* Dependable transport protocols
* Intelligent energy and QoS management
* Fault tolerant middleware for WSANs
* Operating systems for dependable WSANs
* Security services


Proceedings

The authors are invited to submit full papers describing original, previously unpublished, complete research, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all areas of computer networking and data communications. All papers will be reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings as well as electronically in IEEE Xplore. Papers must be submitted electronically in the conference site. Please adhere to the IEEE formatting standard for a 12-page manuscript.
The cover page must contain an abstract of about 150 words, 3-5 keywords, name and affiliation of author(s) as well as the corresponding author's e-mail and postal address.

Revised and extended versions of the most outstanding papers will be published in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection (Elsevier)

TPC Chairs
Peter Langendoerfer, IHP, Germany
Evgeny Osipov, LTU, Sweden
Dirk Westhoff, NEC, Germany

Technical Program Committee:

Ammar Alkassar, Sirrix, Germany
Wolfgang Birk, LTU, Sweden
Jens-Matthias Bohli, NEC, Germany
Levente Buttyan, BUTE, Hungary
Augusto Casaca, INESC, Portugal
Claude Castelluccia, INRIA, France
Mieso Denko, University of Guelph, Canada
Manuel Diaz, UMA, Spain
Carlo Fischione, KTH, Sweden
Antonio Grilo, INESC, Portugal
Javier Lopez, UMA, Spain
Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Refik Molva, Eurecom, France
Guevarra Noubir, North Eastern University Boston, USA
Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Frank Stajano, Cambridge University, UK
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada
Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden
Sherali Zeadally, University of the District of Columbia, USA

Important Dates

Paper submission: June 15, 2009
Acceptance notification: July 15, 2009
Camera ready: August 15, 2009