Wireless communication, sensor networks under scanner

THE IMPACT of wireless communication has been and will continue to be profound. The standards that define how wireless communication devices interact are quickly converging and soon will allow the creation of a global wireless networks that will deliver a wide variety of services.

With Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSAN) fast emerging as a technology for remote distributive monitoring and control that takes advantage of the developments in wireless communication besides other fields like Embedded systems, semantic web and smart surroundings, Allahabad's Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT-A) has decided to organise the Second International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (WCSN-2006) from December 17, 2006.

"Unlike the conventional sensor arrays, conservation of power and wireless channel bandwidth are of utmost importance. These energy and bandwidth constraints present fundamental challenges in developing intelligent, distributive, collaborative, multi-modality networked objects that sense and act in wide-area, and in unattended environments. Early research has explored the concepts, prototypes, devices and applications. It is time to move ahead beyond the models and prototypes to large sustainable systems. For this we need to have device centric, application centric and technology centric views. The two-day conference will try to capture this spirit and aims to bring researchers and engineers together to share their views, researches and experiences," informed IIIT-A Director Dr MD Tiwari.

He said that to deliver keynote addresses invited talks, various experts from all over the world are being invited including Pascal Lorenz of France, Dharma P Agrawal of USA, Ramjee Prasad of Denmark, Torsten Braun of Switzerland, Satish Chandra  and Petre Dini of USA.

Dr Tiwari said that keeping in view the aim and objective of the conference, technical papers that describe previously unpublished, original, completed research and that are not currently under review by another conference or journal, are being solicited on various themes.

On Wireless Sensor Networks, Architectures and Protocols, topics like Wireless Sensor Network Architectures, Self organising, Flexible, Semantic wireless sensor networks, Energy-aware network design and power management, Protocols and Energy-aware protocols, Localisation, Synchronisation as well as Security and privacy will be in focus.

On Sensors and Technologies for WSANs, papers on issues like Architecture, and Design and fabrication of Smart wireless sensors, motes, RF tags, RF Antennas and their design

Sensor technologies, Smart Dust, Operating systems, programming languages, Nanotechnologies, Interfacing with other real world applications and BioSensors are being invited.

Other themes short-listed for the meet includes WSAN Application, Deployment and Experiences that will cover Surveillance and security, Disaster prediction and management,

Transportation and traffic management, Security and Defence, Environmental monitoring & ecology, Mining and Wireless Communications and Technologies that will deal with Broadband mobile communication systems, Wireless technologies for sensors, Transmitters and receiver components among others.

Dr Tiwari said that conference papers would be published in two volumes—referred papers would be published as Conference Proceedings A, and rest would be published as Conference Proceedings B.

Authors have been requested to send 1000 word extended abstracts in electronic form to reach the conference secretariat by August 20, 2006. The abstracts would be reviewed by the members of the Technical Advisory Committee. On their recommendation, the authors would receive invitation from conference Secretariat by September 8, 2006, to send camera-ready full papers. The camera ready full papers should reach the conference secretariat on or before October 15. Papers would be sent to the members of TAC for their recommendation. Those which are recommended would be published in Proceedings A and the rest would be published in Proceedings B. The decision regarding the status of publication would be communicated to the authors by November 1, 2006.