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2008 IFIP Conference on Wireless
Sensors and Actor Networks

July 14th to 15th, 2008

School of information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa (SITE, Rm A-0150)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

(NEW) Best paper award: A Sensor Network Protocol for Automatic Meter Reading in an Apartment Building
Tetsuya Kawai, Naoki Wakamiya, Masayuki Murata, Kentaro Yanagihara, Masanori Nozaki and Shigeru Fukunaga

(NEW) Best student award: Deployment-based Solution for Prolonging Network Lifetime in Sensor Networks
Sonia Hashish and Ahmed Karmouch

Keynote   Speaker/Title : Dr. Weihua Zhuang (University of Waterloo), Distributed resource allocation in wireless ad hoc, mesh, and sensor-actor networks

Please click here for the abstract, and the bio of the speaker.


The 2008 IFIP Conference on Wireless Sensors and Actor Networks (WSAN 08) will be held from Monday, July 14th, to Tuesday, July 15th, 2008, at the School of Information Technology and Engineering of University Ottawa, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Ottawa is Canada's national capital, and features a wealth of festivals and cultural activities. It is directly accessible by air from major cities around the world. The conference location is in the city centre, conveniently located near shopping, museums, and public transportation.

Previously unpublished contributions describing original, completed or on-going research are solicited, including (but not limited to) the following areas:

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  • AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting)
  • Analysis, Simulation and Measurement
  • Ad-Hoc Networking
  • Coordination in Actor Networks
  • Communication Protocols
  • Cross-Layer Optimizations
  • Energy-efficient Protocols and Power Management
  • Information Processing
  • Localization and Tracking
  • Middleware
  • Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Operating Systems and Programming Abstractions
  • Physical Architecture
  • QoS
  • Real-Time Communications in Actor Networks
  • Robots as Actor Nodes
  • Security and Privacy
  • Wireless Multimedia Networking
  • WSAN Applications

For a pdf copy of Call for Papers please click here.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceeding published by Springer. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a Special Issue of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Network journal. Awards will also be given for the best paper , and the best student paper.

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Last Updated on Apr. 24th, 2008