The Second International Workshop on Interconnections of Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSN’11)
In conjunction with IEEE/ACM DCOSS 2011
29 June 2011, Barcelona, Spain
URL: http://iwsn2011.gforge.uni.lu/index.html

New Submission Deadline: April 10th, 2011


Subject and Purpose of the Workshop
We lately witness a tremendous development in the wireless sensor networking (WSN), which makes it possible to monitor, unobtrusively and for long periods of time the physical environment. Ensuring high connectivity within the network is vital for real applications. Moreover, for many applications, sensor networks cannot operate in complete isolation. There must be a way enabling a monitoring entity or some end-users to gain access to the data produced by the sensor network, and even to interact with a particular sensor mote to activate/deactivate it, read the sensed values instantaneously, fix some inner parameters, make dynamic code loading into the mote, etc. By connecting the sensor network to an existing network infrastructure such as a local-area network, a private intranet, mobile network infrastructures, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and notably the global internet, gaining remote access to the sensor network would be straightforward.

The integration of RFID and WSN is one of the most promising technologies that will play an important role in emerging the Internet of the Things (IoT). For example, in a healthcare application, RFID tags can be used to track the elders whereas the sensors are used to monitor the elders’ conditions. However, many questions need answers, and many challenges must be tackled before such interconnection becomes effective. Suitability of IP standards must be investigated, as well as the connection architecture. By openly connect a sensor network to other networks, doors will be opened to new vulnerabilities. An intruder would not need to gain physical access to the network anymore, but it might remotely launch attacks. Security is thus a very important aspect that must be considered. Routing, QoS, and interoperability are also important and challenging issues in the new heterogeneous systems.

Connecting different WSNs is another issue that needs to be considered. A WSN might get partitioned into distinct segments due to battery exhaustion of many sensors. Providing mechanisms to restore connectivity by connecting those segments is of high importance. Also, an isolated segment of sensor nodes that cannot reach its sink can exploit the existence of a neighboring reachable WSN to deliver its sensed information.

This workshop is a forum for researchers, academics, and industrials to debate the different issues related to the interconnection of wireless sensor networks, and discuss relevant theoretical and practical solutions.



Topics
Topics of the workshop consist of all aspects related to WSN, with more focus on the interconnection and integration of WSN to other networks, as well as the connection between WSNs and connectivity issues. They include but are not limited to:
- Interconnection architecture aspects
- Sensor deployment and connectivity issues
- Integration of WSN and RFID
- Interconnecting sensor and actor networks
- Interconnecting WSN and fixed network
- InterconnectingWSN and mobile network (e.g., GSM, UAV; etc.)
- Interconnecting onboard vehicular sensors and fixed infrastructure (V2I)
- Integration of Body area networks to WLAN and beyond
- Testdeds for integrated networks
- Authentication, vulnerability, protection, and security issues
- Fault-tolerance and dependability of WSN
- Quality of Service (QoS) issues
- Routing and network protocols
- Medium access control protocols
- Transport protocols for congestion control, and Middlewares
- Integrated applications and services for cross networks
- In-network processing and aggregation
- Location and time services
- Integration of sensor networks and web-based services

Submission guidelines and policy
Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. Papers are restricted to a maximum length of 6 pages, including text, figures, and references. All papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted and registered papers will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of accepted papers is required to register and attend the workshop to present the paper. Papers should be prepared using the standard IEEE camera-ready template, and submitted in pdf format.
Paper should be submitted through easychair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwsn11)

Extended version of selected papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), published by Inderscience.
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1561


Important dates
Paper submission deadline: April 10th 2011
Author notification: May 04th 2011
Camera-ready papers and author registration: May 30th, 2011


General Co-Chairs
- Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Centre, Algiers, Algeria.
Email: ddjenouri@mail.cerist.dz. URL: http://djenouri.googlepages.com

- Abdelouahid Derhab, CERIST Research Centre, Algiers, Algeria.
Email: aderhab@mail.cerist.dz. URL: http://abdelouahid.derhab.googlepages.com

- Jianguo Ding, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Email: jianguo.ding@ieee.org. URL: http://www.iet.ntnu.no/~jgding/

TPC members
Monica Aguilar Igartua, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Habib M. Ammari, Hofstra University , NY, USA
Antoine Bagula, Cape Town University, South Africa
Jose Maria Barcelo, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Fransisco Barcelo, UPC, Barcelona, Spain
Paul Bender McNeese State University, USA
Luca Caviglione, National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Yacine Challal, UTC, Compiegne, France
Lei Chen, Sam Houston State University, USA
Gregoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg
Abdelouahid Derhab, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria
Jianguo Ding, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Djamel Djenouri, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria
Kalman Graffi, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Haibing Guan, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Haiwu He, INRIA, France
Richard Holzer, Passau University, Germany
Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France
Shanshan Jiang, SINTEF, Norway
Anne Kayem, Cape Town University, South Africa
Lyes Khelladi, CERIST, Algeria
Thomas Lagkas, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Sookyoung Lee, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
David Llewellyn-Jones, John Moors University, Liverpool, UK
Achour Mostefaoui, University of Rennes 1, France
Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Herwig Unger, University of Hagen, Germany
Thiemo Voigt, SICS, Sweden
Xinhui Wang, NTNU, Norway
Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland, USA
Yan Zhang, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway