AT A GLANCE
Research in the field of wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks is continuing to produce advances, both in fundamental communication among multiple wireless nodes and in application areas that include wireless mesh networks, vehicular ad-hoc networks, and the many fields in which wireless networks are proving useful. Advances in the field range from purely theoretical, through many intermediate levels, all the way to determinedly practical. Specific research issues include (but are not limited to) better routing, MAC, and transport layers, physical layer(s) and their application to solving specific problems, application-specific protocols and algorithms, cross-layer protocol design, mobility, security, scalability, reliability, node configuration and auto configuration, overall cost or energy efficiency, node location or ways of dealing with position uncertainty, and specific novel applications of wireless ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks.
The defining property of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks is the use of wireless multihop communication among nodes that produce, consume, and relay data on a flexible, as-needed basis appropriate for the intended application. Although some nodes may be connected to a wider Internet, the focus of wireless ad hoc network or wireless sensor network research is multi-hop communication among generally equivalent wireless nodes. To support the needed flexibility, the networks nodes must generally work together and self-regulate automatically and reliably without much central control or substantial human intervention.
This minitrack is focused on the issues that arise in designing useful wireless sensor and ad-hoc networks. While many such networks so far have been relatively small scale, it is interesting and useful to study what happens when network sizes grow to very large sizes, as is projected for the future. Such growth can be in overall number of nodes, in network diameter, in network density, or in other metrics.
Important Dates
June 15, 2008
Paper Submission
August 15, 2008
Notification of Acceptance
September 15, 2008
Camera-ready due
January 5, 2009
Conference starts
This minitrack is intended as a successor to the Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications minitrack held at HICSS from 2005 to 2008. HICSS-42 will be held January 5-8, 2009 at Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii.
Mini-Track Officials
Chair
Edoardo Biagioni
Publicity Chair
Paulo Martins
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Department of Information and Computer Science
Chaminade University of Honolulu
Department of Computer Science
Please send comments regarding these pages to Paulo Martins
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