Technical Sponsorship by

        Morocco Section

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Workshop Chair

 

Ahmed Khoumsi, U. Sherbrooke, Canada

 

Program Committee

 

Pascal Anelli,  U. de la Réunion, St-Denis, France

 

Isabelle Augé-Blum, CITI Lyon, France

 

Michel Barbeau, Carleton U., Ottawa, Canada

 

Boucif A. Bensaber, UQTR, Trois-Rivières, Canada

 

Gianluca Bontempi, U. Libre Bruxelles, Belgique

 

Azzedine Boukerche,  SITE, U. Ottawa, Canada

 

Steven Chamberland, École Polyt. Montréal, Canada

 

Claude.Chaudet, ENST, Paris, France

 

Soumaya Cherkaoui, U. Sherbrooke, Canada

 

Fethi Filali, EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France

 

Eric Fleury, CITI Lyon, France

 

Kun-Mean Hou, LIMOS, Aubière, France

 

Lyes Khoukhi, U. Sherbrooke, Canada

 

Abdelhamid Mammeri, U. Sherbrooke, Canada

 

CongDuc Pham, U. Pau, France

 

Samuel Pierre, École Polyt. Montréal, Canada

 

Stephan Robert, HEIG-Vd, Yverdon-les-Bains, Suisse

 

Olivier Romain, U. Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

 

David Simplot-Ryl, USTL, Lille, France

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Deadlines

    - Submission:                         January 19, 2007

    - Notification to authors:      March 2, 2007

    - Final version due:                March 30, 2007

    - Date of the Workshop:       June 4^th, 2007

 

Paper Submissions

Authors are invited to submit original contributions written in French or English in IEEE two-column formats using an electronic PDF or MS-Word formats. The paper length should not exceed 6 pages.   

 

Submissions should be sent attached by email  to the workshop chair at:  ahmed.khoumsi@usherbrooke.ca

 

Every paper should mention on its first page the title, authors’ names and affiliation, an abstract and a list of keywords.

 

For more information on the NOTERE’2007 and the Workshops please consult the web site:

http://www.notere-conf.org

 

 

Scope and Topics

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a new technology that has been made possible with the phenomenal development of several areas, such as wireless technologies, telecommunications, embedded microprocessors, miniaturization and micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) sensors. WSNs have a great success, mainly for the relatively low cost of their deployment and the many promising applications, such as smart houses, medicine, forest surveillance, meteorology, and control of hostile and dangerous zones.

 

WSNs interest more and more researchers and industrialists, because of the several challenging problems that arise. For example, WSNs have frequent topology change, and sensors have very limited resources (e.g., energy, computation, memory and bandwidth) and they may be faced to the risk of damage (e.g., in a forest fire). A particularly interesting challenging problem is Quality of Service (QoS) for WSNs, where the aim is to provide “better” services than just “best effort” services.

 

The aim of this workshop is to provide a space to share experiences, ideas and to discuss solutions among researchers, post graduated students and professionals both from academia and industry. Original contributions as well as papers relating instructive experiences in WSN are solicited. All areas related to WSNs are welcome, for example: protocols, applications and prototypes, software, QoS management, hardware, information processing, and security. Here is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest:

 

- Protocols:

        - MAC, routing, transport, and cross layer protocols

        - Mobility support

        - Gateways to other networks, e.g., the Internet

        - Protocol design considerations

        - Performance evaluation

- Applications and prototypes:

        - Real-Life applications

        - Potential novel applications

        - Application requirements

        - Application evaluation

        - Debugging and testing of prototypes

- Software:

        - Operating systems

        - Concepts and software tools for programming and interfacing sensors and WSNs

        - High level programming abstraction

        - Simulation tools

        - Middleware technology

        - Distributed Database systems

        - In-network query processing

- QoS management

        - QoS fundamentals

        - QoS definition, architecture and mechanisms

        - QoS support in WSN

        - QoS support in heterogeneous WSN

        - Traffic and congestion control

        - QoS metrics

- Hardware:

        - Battery technology

        - Transceiver and antenna design

        - Sensor technology (e.g., ZigBee)

        - Miniaturization

- Information processing:

        - Compression,

        - Association,

        - Data fusion (aggregation)

- Security:

        - Cryptographic protocols

        - Encryption

        - Authentication

        - Integrity control

        - Key Management techniques

        - Study of attack strategies, attack modeling

        - Novel Distributed security architecture under resource constraints