| Overview
The
first international workshop on Sensor Networks
and Applications (SNA’08) will be held in Hainan
Island, China, December 13 ~ 15, 2008 (in conjunction
with FGCN’08). The workshop interest focuses on
sensor networks and their applications, and includes
the following three research scopes: Wireless Sensor
Network (WSN), Underwater Sensor Network (UWSN),
and Semantic Sensor Network (SSN). WSN includes research topics related
with wireless networks, which consist of spatially
distributed devices using information such as temperature,
pressure, vibration, and sound from sensors. UWSN
focuses on issues for
underwater environments, especially oceans. Recently,
many researchers have been trying to apply the sensor
network concepts to the underwater sensor network
for ocean monitoring, resource inquiry, pollution
supervision, and disaster prevention. Finally, in
computer science, semantic-relevant research is
actively studied, and sensor networks technology
has been rapidly developed. It is necessary to deploy
multiple sensor networks to gather interested information.
SSN includes subjects to deal with the issues.
This workshop will support
an opportunity for industry and academic professionals
to discuss the latest issues and progress. The workshop
will publish high quality papers which are closely
related to the various theories and practical applications
in SNA'08. Furthermore, we hope that this workshop
will provide us with a good chance to share creative
ideas regarding SNA'08 with other researchers and engineers
from institutions around the world.
Topics
Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:
Wireless
Sensor Network (WSN)
• Applications
and services for wireless sensor network users
• Architectures,
protocols, and algorithms
• Data
management issues in mobile computing
• Middleware
for computing and networking
• New
wireless applications
• Integration
and interoperability of wireless networks
• Performance
issues of wireless networks and systems
• Security
and privacy issues of wireless sensor network systems
• Power
management and control mechanisms and algorithms
Underwater
Sensor Network (UWSN)
• Efficient
acoustic communications
• Effective
underwater communications
• Network
architecture design for UWSN
• Medium
access control
• Routing
and forwarding
• Security
and robustness
• Power
management scheme
• Localization
and synchronization
• Practical
hardware and software platform
(including
data storage and management)
• UWSN
modeling and simulations
• New
techniques for aquatic applications
• New
applications for underwater networks
• Other
Related Issues on Ubiquitous Underwater Sensor Network
Semantic
Sensor Network (SSN)
• Semantic-based
query processing
• Semantic
sensor network frameworks
• Semantic
sensor network applications
• Effective
semantics building
• Metadata
management for semantic sensor network
• Inference
systems on semantic sensor network
• Semantic
sensor information visualization
• Semantic
services for semantic sensor network
• Case-studies
on semantic sensor network
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