Technical Program and Online Proceedings

 

Thursday, July 21, 2005

 

 

 

 

8:15am - 8:30am

 

Opening Remarks

 

 

 

8:30am - 9:20am

 

SESSION 1: Topology Management and Deployment

 

 

  • Maximizing Alpha-Lifetime for Wireless Sensor Networks [pdf] [ppt]
    Honghai Zhang, Jennifer Hou (UIUC)

 

 

  • On the Deployment of Wireless Sensor Nodes [pdf] [ppt]
    Xin Liu, Prasant Mohapatra (UC Davis)

 

 

 

9:20pm - 10:00am

 

 Invited Talk

 

 

  • "Towards More Efficient Routing in Wireles Sensor Networks" [ppt]
    Bhaskar Krishnamachari (USC)

 

 

 

10:00am - 10:30am

 

 Coffee Break

 

 

 

10:30am - 12:10pm

 

 SESSION 2: Medium Access Control

 

 

  • Probabilistic Algorithms for Costbased Integrated MAC and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks [pdf] [ppt]
    Michele Rossi (U. of Ferrara, Italy), Michele Zorzi (U. of Padova, Italy)

 

 

  • Exploring the Design of an Asynchronous and Asymmetric MAC Protocol [pdf] [ppt]
    Rebecca Braynard, Shobana Ravi, Carla Ellis (Duke U.)

 

 

  • Joint Power/Rate Optimization for CDMA-Based  Wireless Sensor Networks [pdf] [ppt]
    Tao Shu, Marwan Krunz (U. of Arizona)

 

 

  • A MAC-Layer Retransmission Algorithm Designed for the  Physical-Layer Characteristics of Clustered Sensor Networks [pdf] [ppt]
    Qingjiang Tian, Edward J. Coyle (Purdue U.)

 

 

 

12:10pm -1:30pm

 

 Lunch Break

 

 

 

1:30pm - 2:10pm

 

 Invited Talk

 

 

  • "Understanding and Utilizing Multi-Dimensional Correlations in Sensor Networks: A Protocol Design Perspective" [ppt]
    Ahmed Helmy (USC)

 

 

 

2:10pm - 3:00pm

 

SESSION 3: Resource Management & Estimation

 

 

  • SenProbe: Path Capacity Estimation in Wireless Sensor Network [pdf] [ppt]
    Tony Sun, Ling-Jyh Chen, Guang Yang, Medy Sanadidi, Mario Gerla (UCLA)

 

 

  • On the Interdependence of Congestion and  Contention in Wireless Sensor Networks [pdf] [ppt]
    Mehmet C. Vuran, Vehbi C. Gungor (Georgia Institute of Technology), Ozgur B. Akan (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

 

 

 

3:00pm - 3:30pm

 

Coffee Break

 

 

 

3:30pm - 4:45pm

 

SESSION 4: Energy-Constrained Design

 

 

  • High Performance, Low Power Sensor Platforms Featuring Gigabyte Scale Storage [pdf] [ppt]
    Abhishek Mitra, Anirban Banerjee (UC Riverside)

 

 

  • Analysis of Energy Consumption for a Biological Clustering Method in Sensor Networks [pdf] [ppt]
    Kenji Leibnitz, Naoki Wakamiya, Masayuki Murata (Osaka U., Japan), Marie-Ange Remiche (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

 

 

  • Dynamic Sleep Scheduling using Online Experimentation  for Wireless Sensor Networks [pdf] [ppt]
    Sha Liu, Kai-Wei Fan, Prasun Sinha (Ohio State U.)