2007 Proceeding- Program Chairs:
- Silvia Giordano,
- Stephan Olariu,
- David Simplot-Ryl
Welcome to SANET 2007, the 1st ACM Workshop on Sensor Actor Networks -- SANET 2007. The advent of nano-technology and advances in communications has made it technologically feasible and economically viable to develop low-power devices that integrate general-purpose computing with multi-purpose sensing and wireless communications capabilities. It is expected that sensor networks will have a significant impact on a wide array of applications ranging from military, to scientific, to industrial, to health-care, to domestic, to environmental, establishing ubiquitous wireless sensor networks that will pervade society redefining the way in which we live and work.
Recently, in an attempt to integrate sensor networks in the fabric of human activities it has been recognized that it would be beneficial to augment sensor networks by either actuators or actors. Actuators are simple devices programmed to take immediate, one-shot, action in response to sensory input. Actors are more sophisticated entities that, in addition to actuating can provide a meaningful, long-term, interaction with the environment. This long-term interaction presupposes intelligent coordination with both the sensory data but also with anticipated changes in the environment. The resulting augmented version of sensor networks is commonly referred to as Sensor Actor Networks (SANET).
In response to the Call for Papers, fifteen papers from USA, Europe, Asia and Canada had been submitted. Based on three review reports per paper, they were classified as accept, reject or discuss. For those papers in the discuss list, additional opinions were sought. As a result, a total of six papers were selected for presentation at SANET 2007.
The workshop could not be successful without the help of many organizations and individuals. First, we would like to thank the workshop general chairs, Symeon Symeon Papavassiliou and Ivan Stojmenovic, for their support and guidance. Next, we wish to thanks the program committee (PC) members, and the PC members and external reviewers for evaluating the assigned papers in a timely and professional manner. Last, but not the least, we thank all the authors for their submissions.
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Simulations in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks
Simulation is certainly useful for evaluating protocol performance. Several recent studies underlined the lack of rigor in its application that threatens the credibility of the published claims. While agreeing with some of the criticism, this article ...
Analytical evaluation of virtual infrastructures for data dissemination in wireless sensor networks with mobile sink
In this paper, we address the problem of data dissemination in wireless sensor networks (WSN) with mobile sink(s). In such a context, the difficulty is for sensor nodes to efficiently track the sink and report the requested data to the sink location. As ...
PROSAN: probabilistic opportunistic routing in SANETs
SANET react to a sensed event by means of actuators. The sensor nodes thus need to communicate with actuators, and this can involve several hops if the network is large. To reduce unbalanced traffic distribution and costs, sensor networks can be modeled ...
Navigating actors in mobile sensor actor networks
Sensor actor networks (SANET) are composed of (mobile) sensors and actors which coordinate via wireless communications to perform distributed sensing and acting tasks. This paper investigates the issue of navigating mobile actors within a mobile SANET ...
Distributed acoustic conversation shielding: an application of a smart transducer network
In this paper, we introduce distributed acoustic conversation shielding, a novel application of a transducer (sensors and speakers) network. This application protects the privacy of spontaneous conversations in a workplace by masking the participants' ...
Managing heterogeneous sensors and actuators in ubiquitous computing environments
- Riccardo Crepaldi,
- Albert F. Harris,
- Rob Kooper,
- Robin Kravets,
- Gaia Maselli,
- Chiara Petrioli,
- Michele Zorzi
With the increase in the number of sensors and actuators available to ubiquitous computing systems comes the need for architectures that can support the development of intelligent applications and expose the rich control and monitoring capabilities ...
Asynchronous training in SANET
- Ferruccio Barsi,
- Francesco Betti Sorbelli,
- Roberto Ciotti,
- Cristina M. Pinotti,
- Alan A. Bertossi,
- Stephan Olariu
Scalable energy-efficient training protocols are proposed for networks consisting of Sensors and Actors (SANET), where the sensors are initially anonymous and unaware of their location. The protocols are based on an intuitive coordinate system imposed ...
A mobility prediction model for a role management dynamic algorithm for wireless sensor networks
The main goal of this paper is the analysis of the problem of joint dynamic re-assignment of node role and a Mobility Prediction Model (MPM). Based on the consideration that in almost all wireless sensor networks nodes can assume different roles it is ...
Controlling sensors and actuators collectively using the COCOS-framework
Cocos (COordinated COmmunicating Sensors)1 is a lean middleware platform for wireless sensor and actuator networks. The major programming abstractions of Cocos are distributed sensor spaces, which enable the collective controlling of sensors or ...
Slime mold inspired coordinations for wireless sensor and actor networks
We adapt the tubular network formation behavior of slime mold to design coordination protocols for wireless sensor and actor networks.
Routing sensitive priority scheduling
In this paper, we demonstrate a new CPU-scheduling algorithm which especially takes routing issues into account. In the priority scheduling [1], an approach known for solving the overloading problem of simple FIFO CPU-scheduling, it is not guaranteed ...
Detecting Sybil attacks in image senor network using cognitive intelligence
Wireless Sensor Network has become state-of-art technology of the 21st century, the application ranges from academic to military operations. These tiny sensors can be deployed in open environment, where security to neither data nor hardware can be ...
Towards maximum longevity of energy limited SANETs
One of the major challenges in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) design lies in the constrained energy available to sensor nodes. Workforce selection strategies which unevenly consume sensor energy can reduce the lifetime of the network significantly. ...
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Acceptance Rates
| Year | Submitted | Accepted | Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| SANET '07 | 15 | 6 | 40% |
| Overall | 15 | 6 | 40% |