WSW'2006

Workshop on
World-Sensor-Web (WSW'2006):

Mobile Device Centric Sensor
Networks and Applications

A one day workshop at the SenSys'2006 conference

Location of workshop changed (not the same as main SenSys conference):

The two SenSys workshops will be held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR) Mesa Lab at:

1850 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder, Colorado 80305

(See #2 on the map. All conference destinations are listed here.)

Information about parking and the bus shuttles (between hotels and workshop venue) is given here.

See program below

Online registration

Minutes of discussion at WSW'2006

TOPICS

The global use of mobile phones on a scale never seen before enables the development of new types of application scenarios. Furthermore, a mobile device centric approach to large-scale sensor networks provides a challenging platform for research purposes. Additionally, connecting sensor networks to the Internet creates endless opportunities for applications and services, new emerging models of operation.

The workshop aims to address these aspects, beside traditional sensor network topics such as power management, communication issues, topology management, distributed architectures, peer-to-peer scenarios, etc. Demonstrations and initial ideas are welcome as well.

Original, short or position papers (max 5 page), presenting results on both theoretical and practical aspects of large-scale mobile device centric sensor networks are expected. We are particularly interested in prototype descriptions, reports from on-going trials and demonstrations, real-life deployments. Live or videod demos are encouraged.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

device centric sensor networks
communication strategies and topology control
location and mobility management
power management, energy-efficient design
data gathering, transport, storage, retrieval, mining and dissemination
data analysis and visualisation
modelling and simulation software tools
experimental systems and demonstrations
real-life deployments, middleware implementations
beyond location sensing
intelligent sensors, body sensors and their utilisation
phone as a gateway
end-user aspects, UI issues, use cases
sensor networks and the Web

WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS

Henry Tirri, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
Barbara Heikkinen, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
Boda Péter, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Joe Paradiso, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Deborah Estrin, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gaetano Borriello, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Philippe Bonnet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sam Madden, MIT CSAIL, Cambridge, USA
Jukka Salminen, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
Dirk Trossen, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
Mika Klementtinen, Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

8:30-9:00am	Registration
9:00-9:05am	Welcome
Position papers (20 min each followed by a 15 minutes discussion)
9:05-10:00am	Participatory sensing	J. Burke, D. Estrin, M. Hansen, A. Parker, N. Ramanathan, S. Reddy, M. B. Srivastava (UCLA)
	MetroSense Project: People-Centric Sensing at Scale	Shane B. Eisenman, Gahng-Seop Ahn (Columbia University), Nicholas D. Lane, Emiliano Miluzzo, Ronald A. Peterson, Andrew T. Campbell (Dartmouth College)
Short papers (15 min each, discussion in the end of the session)
10:00am-12:00pm	Relevance Metrics for Coverage Extension Using Community Collected Cell-Phone Camera Imagery	Aman Kansal, Lin Xiao, Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research)
	Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide	Nath Suman, Liu Jie, Zhao Feng (Microsoft Research)
(10:30-11:00am	Coffee break
	Indoor Positioning with a WLAN Access Point List on a Mobile Device	Marion Hermersdorf (Nokia Research Center)
	Discussion
12:00-1:45pm	Lunch
Panel
1:45-2:45pm	Panel: "Grand challanges of mobile device-centric wireless sensor networks"	Participants: tba
Short Papers (15 min each)
2:45-4:45pm	Sensing in Rich Bluetooth Environments	Marion Hermersdorf, Heli Nyholm, Jukka Salminen, Henry Tirri (Nokia Research Center), Jukka Perkiö, Ville Tuulos (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology)
	Hash-based Secure Sensor Network Programming Method without Public Key Cryptography	Lee Sokjoon, Kim Howon, Kyoil Chung (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, S. Korea)
	Designing Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Sinks	Chen Canfeng, Ma Jian (Nokia Research Center), Yu Ke (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)
(3:30-4:00pm	Coffee break)
	Locality Helps Sleep Scheduling	Jukka Suomela (University of Helsinki)
	The Case for Mobile Devices in Environmental Observing systems	Sameer Tilak, Kenneth Chiu, Gregory Quinn, Tony Fountain, Chaitan Baru (UC San Diego)
	SensorPlanet update: the first islands	Boda Péter Pál (Nokia Research Center)
4:45-6:00pm	Discussions, Follow-up, Closing the Workshop

Questions, inquiries

Please mail to peter dot boda at nokia dot com with subject WSW2006.