[ecoop-info] CFP: 2009 International Workshop on Mobile, Multimedia, Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks (MMASN 2009)

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                           Call for Papers (second round)

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2009 International Workshop on Mobile, Multimedia, Ad Hoc & Sensor
Networks

                            (MMASN 2009)

             http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~minchen/mmasn2009.htm

 

                         In conjunction with 

  The 8th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and
Computing 

                             (PICOM 2009)

                      www.cs.iupui.edu/~ydai/Picom09/

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Overview

 

Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks have received tremendous attentions from both
academic

community and industry field for many years, since these networks are
the key 

underlying infrastructure for realizing next generation networking and
computing,

e.g., ubiquitous computing, 4 G all IP networks. Along with the fast
development

on the hardware and embedded systems, Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks are
further 

developed towards a large number of mobile & multimedia applications,
e.g., video

surveillance, traffic enforcement and control systems, advanced health
care 

delivery, structural health monitoring, and industrial process control.
To 

eventually realizing these mobility & multimedia technologies combined
applications, 

a lot of efforts are still needed from both academic community and
industry field, 

since the requirements on supporting both mobility and multimedia
streaming in 

Wireless Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks positioned many challenging issues,
e.g., mobile 

network self-organization, limited resource intelligent allocation,
cross-layer 

optimization, and intelligent content-aware transmission.

 

In this workshop, we solicit research papers on all aspects of mobile,
multimedia, 

Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks. Especially, we are interested in the research
submissions 

focusing on the following four key aspects: 1) Congestion control
problem: when 

multiple multimedia source nodes are deployed in wireless multimedia
sensor networks, 

and they try to send out the streaming data to a single base station at
the same time, 

a well designed congestion control scheme is essentially necessary; 2)
Mobility 

support problem: when both multimedia source nodes and sink node can be
mobile, it is 

easy to see that there is an opportunity to apply the game theory to
further solve 

some more complicated optimization problems; 3) Duty-cycle support
problem: when 

sensor nodes in the wireless multimedia sensor networks are random
duty-cycled based, 

the network topology and connectivity of sensor networks can change from
time to time. 

It is important to further investigate a cross layer optimized sensor
node sleeping 

scheduling scheme to guarantee the network connectivity for packet
delivery; 4) Target

tracking problem: when multiple video sensor nodes are deployed to
tracking a certain 

target in the sensor networks, it is important to further explore the
collaboration 

between multiple video sensor nodes for facilitating the target tracking
task.

 

The objective of this workshop is to bring together state-of-the-art
research 

contributions, tutorials, and position papers that address these key
aspects of mobile, 

multimedia Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks. Original papers describing
completed and 

unpublished work not currently under review by any other
journal/magazine/conference/

workshop are solicited. 

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

* Scalable and flexible network architectures, deployments, and
heterogeneous applications

* New middleware, system, and underlying infrastructure

* Semantic annotation for multimedia streams processing and management

* Protocols for supporting real-time and reliable multimedia streaming

* Energy-efficient multimedia gathering, transmission, traffic
management, and sensor data 

  management

* Scalability and mobility issues in cross-layer design, and
optimization for effective 

  communications

* Context/content aware approaches for facilitating multimedia streaming

* Secure multimedia streaming and transmission, QoS and admission
control

* Cooperative transmission for multimedia delivery, and collaborative
in-network 

  processing

* Experimental and test bed studies, simulation tools

* Joint multimedia processing and communication solutions

* Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding

* Capacity modeling, performance analysis, and theoretical analysis

* Topology control and synchronization protocols

* Delay-tolerant networking and physical layer technologies

* Distributed source coding, and lightweight multimedia encoding
techniques

* Multimedia aggregation and fusion, and multimedia sensor coverage 

* In-network and distributed storage techniques

* MIMO techniques for multimedia delivery

* Multimedia traffic on cognitive radio networks

 

Important Dates:

* Submission Deadline:  September 1, 2009 (EST)

* Acceptance Notice:    October 1, 2009

* Final Manuscript:     October 15, 2009

* Publication Date:     December 12-14, 2009

 

Submission Instructions

Prospective authors should follow the manuscript requirement of PICOM
2009 and submit papers 

to: lei.shu at ieee.org and minchen at ece.ubc.ca 

(http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~minchen/mmasn2009sub.htm)

 

Publication:

Accepted papers will appear in PICom-09 proceedings to be published by
IEEE Computer Society 

Press (pending) and to be indexed by EI.

 

Distinguished papers accepted and presented in MMASN 2009, after further
revisions, will be 

published in the special issues of the following journals:

* International Journal of Sensor Networks, 

  Special Issue on "Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless Sensor
Networks"

* International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed
Systems, 

  Special Issue on "Mobile, Multimedia, Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks"

 

 

WORKSHOP ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

 

GENERAL CHAIR

Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan

 

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Lei Shu, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland

Min Chen, University of British Columbia, Canada

 

PUBLICITY CHAIRs

Lei Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China

Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China

Wen Ji, Institute of Computing Technology, China

 

Technical Program Committee 

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea

Chonggang Wang, NEC Labs of America, USA

Canfeng Chen, Nokia Research Center, China

Deqing Zou, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China

Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China

Han-Chieh Chao, Ilan University, Taiwan

Hui Chen, Virginia State University, USA

Jiming Chen, Zhejiang University, China

Jiehang Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland

Jinlei Jiang, Tsinghua University, China

John Breslin, National University of Ireland, Ireland

Liang Zhou, ENSTA, Paris Tech, France

Lei Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China

Myong-Soon Park, Korea University, Korea

Mingchu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China

Naixue Xiong, Georgia State University, USA

Nicolas Sklavos, Technological Educational Institute of Patras, Greece

Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Sajid Hussain, Acadia University, Canada

Sangheon Pack, Korea University, Korea

Sang-Soo Yeo, Mokwon University, Korea

Shiguo Lian, France Telecom R&D Beijing Center, China

Tomoki Yoshihisa, Osaka University, Japan

Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland

Weiqiang Xu, Zhejiang University, China

Weiwei Fang, Beihang University, China

Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China

Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

Xuedong Liang, University of Oslo, Norway

Xiaohu Ge, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway

Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Zhangbing Zhou, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland

 

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