FedSenS 2011 - FedSenS 2011 International Workshop on Federated Wireless Sensor System

FedSenS 2011
International Workshop on Federated Wireless Sensor Systems
in conjunction with
The International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
(IWCMC 2011)
July 5-8, 2011
Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
Call for Papers
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) can eliminate/reduce human intervention and provide
fully-automated data gathering systems for numerous applications. However, WSNs may
operate in inhospitable environments and become prone to sensor failures which not only
can degrade the quality of coverage but also disrupt the data traffic. To address such a
problem, most approaches in the literature deploy redundant nodes during network setup
and reconfigure the network topology to establish alternate data paths. However,
sometimes the network suffers a large scale damage that involves many nodes and would
thus create multiple disjoint partitions. For these cases, a provisioned approach for
tolerating occasional failures at the network design level will not be effective. A similar
scenario happens when an application can be leveraged by engaging a number of
standalone WSNs. For example, the disaster response may involve collaboration among
multiple governmental agencies and may need to combine the services of their
autonomously-operating WSNs in the search-and-rescue process.
Connecting such multiple WSNs or partitions of a damaged WSN is referred to as
federation and these networks are called Federated Wireless Sensor Systems (FedSenS).
The purpose of this workshop is to establish a platform to exchange ideas among
researchers for creation, operation and management of FedSenS involving various
heterogeneous sensor and gateway nodes.
Topics of Interest
Original, unpublished and unsubmitted work is sought in terms of algorithms, techniques,
architectures, position papers, visionary approaches and modeling to deploy and maintain
FedSenS. The workshop program invites papers on various aspects of the FedSenS
including, but not limited to, the following:
? Self-federation using existing resources and node mobility
? Federation through relay node placement
? Distributed technique for detecting network partitioning
? Area coverage and network connectivity trade-offs
? Service oriented federation models
? Delay-constrained reliable data communication in FedSenS
? Topology control for improved QoS (i.e., delay or reliability)
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? Sensor data correlation and fusion in FedSenS
? Reliable federated storage and querying of sensor data
? Handling uncertainties through federation
? Interoperability issues
? Security and privacy issues in data sharing
? Military and civilian security applications for FedSenS
? Performance evaluation and testbeds for FedSenS