WMSN 2012 - 1st International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN 2012)

1st International Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
(WMSN 2012) http://recerca.ac.upc.edu/wmsn2012/

in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Conference on Wireless
and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2012)
http://conferences.computer.org/WiMob2012/

Barcelona, Spain,
October 8-10, 2012.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: June 11, 2012
Notification of acceptance: July 9, 2012
Camera-ready manuscripts due: July 27, 2012
Workshop date: October 08, 2012

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting technical challenges,
new research, comprehensive in-depth tutorial surveys, position papers,
standardization efforts in the context of Wireless Multimedia Sensor
(WMSN) Networks. All submissions must be original contributions not
published or currently under review for another workshop, conference,
or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Novel WMSN Architectures and protocols
- Overview of state-of-the-art related to WMSN communication technologies, standards and open challenges
- Cross-layer design and optimization for WMSN
- Multi-tier Heterogeneous Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
- MAC in WMSN
- Routing in WMSN
- Efficient Transport in WMSN
- QoS in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
- Interconnection of WMSN with other networks
- Multimedia aggregation and fusion, and multimedia sensor coverage in WMSN
- Object Detection, Object Monitoring and Tracking in WMSN
- Video Streaming in WMSN
- Coding techniques in WMSN
- Control rate in WMSN
- Security in WMSN
- Energy Conservation and Management in WMSN
- Experimental and test bed studies, simulation tools
- Topology control, localization, synchronization in WMSN
- Cooperative communications in WMSN

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and by the IEEE, and will be accessible via IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors are required to submit fully formatted papers (PDF), with graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final publication. Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE standard conference format (8.5" x 11" - US letter, Two-Column). The final manuscript for publication will be limited to 8 IEEE pages. Submissions can be made at:
http://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=11807

Committees

Chairmans:

* Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, UPC, Spain)
* Llorenç Cerdà-Alabern (Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, UPC, Spain)

Publicity Chair

* Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

TPC committee:

* Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Kaushik R. Chowdhury, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
* Matteo Cesana, Politecnico de Milano, Italy
* Cem Ersoy, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
* Antonio J. Garcia-Sanchez, Technical/Polytechnic University of Cartagena, UPCT, Spain
* Antonio Grilo, INESC, Portugal
* Manel Guerrero-Zapata, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC, Spain
* Pawel Kulakowski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
* Tommaso Melodia, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, USA
* Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan
* Sabrina Sicari, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
* Petia Todorova, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
* Mehmet C. Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA