RAWSNETS 2011 - 1st Workshop on Resources AWare Sensor and surveillance NETworkS (RAWSNETS)

1st Workshop on
Resources AWare Sensor and surveillance NETworkS (RAWSNETS)
August 30, Klagenfurt, Austria

Associated with the
8th IEEE International Conference on
Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance
Klagenfurt University
August 30 ? September 2, 2011

Call for Contribution and Participation

In the real applications domain, monitoring technology has to cope with
different constraints that open to interesting research topics. In
particular in context of sensor networks three main resources present
strong limitations: a)Communication, b) Computational Power and c) Power
Consumption.
All these limitations become more evident with the increase of the
number of sensors deployed by the network. These limitations require a
sort of awareness of the system that can take measures to adapt its
performance or operability in order to adhere to the constraints.
In the context of video sensor networks, the bandwidth limitation
strongly upper-bounds the amount of data that each node/camera can share
through the network. Hence distributed and hierarchic models have gained
major interest against centric models. Anyhow, distributed knowledge
still require information sharing for consensus policies. Information
sharing requires information extraction that hence has to be handled as
close as possible to the data acquisition. This foresees smart sensors
able to perform as many as possible analysis of the data. Currently this
is bound by the computational power available on-board of embedded
platforms. Limited computational power implies to work on simpler data
(low resolution images, low frame rate, etc.) or to adapt the quality of
the data as consequence of its content (event or not).
On top of that, the mobility of the sensor networks (ad hoc deployments,
moving sensors, etc.) introduces the third limitation that is
represented by the power consumption. Power, in these networks, is not
unlimited, it is a paramount resource. Saving power means sustain the
operability of the network. Properly switching on and off the sensors
allows to save power. Switching on and off policies are fundamental and
should be based on the assessment of the sensor importance at each time
instant.
It is clear that methods to control the analysis parameters of the
sensor network together with algorithms able to manage the network in
terms of communication, computational power and consumption are key
research areas for future resource aware sensor networks.

Paper Submission

The workshop aims to present the latest achievements and future
developments in the field of resource aware sensor network. The
workshop will be organized as a round table where all the participants
can interact in an active manner. A keynote speaker will be
individuated to give wide introduction about the research field and
propose different discussion topics. Around the keynote speech,
participants will be asked to contribute to the discussion.
Participation requires to submit an extended abstract (about 1000-2000
words) of current research in the resource aware sensor networks field.
Accepted contributors will be asked to give an interactive presentation
in order to give a full coverage of the topics.

Publication

Selected contributions will be published in the AVSS proceedings

Important Dates

. Submission: April 29th, 2011
. Notification: May 6th, 2011

Web-Site and Contact Information

Additional information about the workshop can be found at

http://users.dimi.uniud.it/~christian.micheloni/ev...

Queries about the Workshop can be sent to

Dr. Christian Micheloni
Università degli Studi di Udine - AVIRES Lab.
e-mail: christian.micheloni-AT-uniud.it

Chairs

Dr. Christian Micheloni - Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy

Prof. Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury - University of California, Riverside, U.S.A.