18th IEEE/ACM DS-RT 2014

Special Session on Recent Advances in WSN's design and Deployment for Real-Time Applications


Information


Submission Deadline: May 31st, 2014
Notification Date: June 30th, 2014


Session Chairs


Rahim Kacimi
University of Toulouse, France

Riadh Dhaou
ENSEEIHT, University of Toulouse, France


Goals of the Session

Over the last decade,researchers and engineersfrom industry and academia were focusing their efforts mainly on energy saving strategies to maximize the Wireless Sensor Networks(WSNs) lifetime. However, new emerging applications, which consider critical and multimedia flows, are gaining more and more popularity in various activity domains. Those WSN-based applications have strict requirementsin terms of security, fault tolerance, and Quality of Service (QoS). The various types of constraints to consider make the design, implementation, and validation of such applications very challenging.

QoS and real-time support in WSNs face severe challenges due to the wireless nature of the channel, limited resources, low node reliability, distributed architecture and dynamic network topology in some applications.

This special session seeks to bring together researchers, scientists and engineers from various research communities, as well as practitioners who face the challenges of QoS and Real-time support in WSNs applications. They are all welcome to present their latest research findings, ideas, simulation tools and applications, and discussthe key unresolved challengesin the topics of this special session.


List of Topics

Scientific Computing
  • Reliable Real-time WSN protocols and applications
  • Delay Guarantees in WSNs applications
  • QoS-mapping fromApplication level to Network and MAC levels
  • Cross-layer Designs for WSNs
  • QoS-oriented dynamic reconfiguration of WSNs
  • Real-Time tracking applications based WSNs
  • WSNs monitoring applications
  • MAC and Routing protocols design for WSNs
  • Fault-tolerant routing techniquesin WSNs
  • Experimental prototypes and testbeds
  • New and unconventional applications of WSNs
  • Underwater and underground WSNs deployment strategies
  • Security and privacy concernsin WSNs
  • WSNs applications for disastermanagement
  • WSNs applications for road traffic monitoring in smart cities