The Workshop Scope

Over the last two decades, the recent and fast advances in inexpensive sensor technology and wireless communications has made the design and development of large-scale sensor networks cost-effective and appealing in a wide range of mission-critical situations, including civilian, natural, industrial, and military, with applications ranging from health and environmental monitoring, seismic monitoring, and industrial process automation to disaster response, battlefield surveillance, and irregular warfare. Wireless sensor networking has attracted the attention of practitioners and researchers from both industry and academia. This type of networks consists of a collection of tiny, low-powered, less reliable sensing devices that are randomly or deterministically deployed to monitor a physical phenomenon and report their results to a central gathering point, known as sink.

Mission-oriented sensor networks are next-generation time-varying systems composed of both humans and mobile sensors (e.g., vehicle-mounted, human-operated, or integrated with mobile robots or UAVs) that collaborate and coordinate to successfully accomplish complex real-time missions under uncertainty. A major challenge in the design of mission-oriented sensor networks arises in supporting dynamic topology and disruption-tolerant architecture, caused by mobility, which has significant impact on performance in terms of sensing coverage, network connectivity, and information quality. In such dynamic environments, sensors should self-organize and reason in a distributed manner about resource allocation, scheduling, forwarding, caching, and in-network storage to accomplish specific missions, while extending the operational network lifetime. Another major challenge lies in accommodating human input. Humans are the ultimate sensors. They are well-equipped to monitor and report situations that would be very difficult for machine sensors to understand. They also come with their own challenges including imperfect reliability, bias, and relative lack of predictability (compared to well-calibrated sensors). The design of mission-oriented sensor networks, where humans and sensors collaborate, should account for trade-offs between several attributes such energy consumption (due to mobility, sensing, and communication), reliability, fault-tolerance, data collection latency, and quality of information (such as video resolution, picture quality, type of content, degree of redundancy, and level of summarization), and their impact on mission objectives. It should accommodate human-centric sensing modalities such as free-form text, pictures, sound, and video, and should include mechanisms to handle unpredictability, uncertainty, human error, and noise.

ACM MiSeNet 2012 aims to provide a forum for participants from academia and industry to discuss topics in mission-oriented sensor network research and practice. ACM MiSeNet 2012 serves as incubator for scientific communities that share a particular research agenda in this area. ACM MiSeNet 2012 will provide them with opportunities to understand the major technical and application challenges as well as exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas related to architecture, protocols, algorithms, and application design, at a stage before they have matured to warrant conference/journal publications. ACM MiSeNet 2012 seeks papers that present novel theoretical and practical ideas as well as work in-progress, which will lead to the development of solid foundations for the design, analysis, and implementation of energy-efficient, reliable, and secure mission-oriented networked sensing applications.

For More Information

Please send email to mobicom_info@acm.org with any questions or comments about the ACM MobiCom'12 conference or for more information. For questions about the ACM MiSeNet 2012 Workshop regarding the paper submission and review process, please contact the General Chair at zaher@cs.uiuc.edu and the Program Chair at hammari@umd.umich.edu.

Organizing Committee

General Chair: Program Chair: Publicity Co-Chairs: Web Chair: Steering Committee:

Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)   Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)   Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)   Flavia Delicato (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)   Elena M. Renda (Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italy)   Shengquan Wang (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)   Wendong Xiao (University of Science and Technology Beijing, China)   Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)   Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)   Habib M. Ammari (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)   Nirwan Ansari (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)   Xiuzhen Cheng (The George Washington University, USA)   Zygmunt J. Haas (Cornell University, USA)   David B. Johnson (Rice University, USA)   Thomas F. La Porta (Penn State University, USA)   Stephan Olariu (Old Dominion University, USA)   Jie Wu (Temple University, USA)   Guoliang Xue (Arizona State University, USA)   Mohamed Younis (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)

Program Committee

• Nael Abu-Ghazelah (SUNY Binghamton University, USA)
  
  

• Kemal Akkaya (Southern Illinois University, USA)
  
  

• Jie Gao (Stony Brook University, USA)
  
  

• Jinhua Guo (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA)
  
  

• Salil Kanhere (University of New South Whales, Australia)
  
  

• Santosh Kumar (University of Memphis, USA)
  
  

• Qilian Liang (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
  
  

• Benyuan Liu (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
  
  

• Chenyang Lu (Washington University-St. Louis, USA)
  
  

• Tommaso Melodia (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
  
  

• Amiya Nayak (University of Ottawa, Canada)
  
  

• Christian Poellabauer (University of Notre Dame, USA)
  
  

• Rik Sarkar (Technische, Freie, and Humboldt Universities, Berlin, Germany)
  
  

• Aaron Striegel (University of Notre Dame, USA)
  
  

• Damla Turgut (University of Central Florida, USA)
  
  

• Mehmet Can Vuran (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
  
  

• Wendong Xiao (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
  
  

• Liqiang Zhang (Indiana University South Bend, USA)
  
  

ACM MiSeNet 2012 Workshop will consider only original papers that are not currently under review by other workshops, conferences, or journals, and have not been published. All papers submitted to ACM MiSeNet 2012 will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on their suitability (i.e., within the workshop scope), novelty, and merit. Submitted papers are limited to 6 pages.

ACM MiSeNet 2012 will also consider technical demos and posters that present original and significant research within the workshop scope. Submitted demos/posters are limited to 2 pages. In the case of a demo, the authors should clearly specify, in an email to both of the General Chair and Program Chair, the additional resources that are needed. Power and wireless Internet connectivity will be available at the workshop.

All submissions should be formatted in standard ACM conference style for publication in the conference Proceedings. They must be single-spaced, double-column, with each column 9.25" by 3.33", 0.33" space between columns, use at least a 10pt font, and be correctly formatted to be printed on Letter-sized (8.5" by 11") paper. It is required that at least one author of each accepted paper/demo/poster register and attend the ACM MiSeNet 2012 workshop to present their work to ensure its publication in the ACM MobiCom 2012 conference Proceedings.

We strongly encourage people from both of the industry and academia to submit their fine work to ACM MiSeNet 2012.

To submit your paper, demo, and/or poster to ACM MiSeNet 2012, please visit the submission website.

Thank you for submitting your paper, demo, and/or poster to ACM MiSeNet 2012!

ACM MiSeNet 2012 program includes a keynote speech by Professor Sajal K. Das on the challenges and future directions of cyber-physical and networked sensor systems. Professor Das is the director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN). Also, he is the University Distinguished Scholar Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA. Professor Das will be recognized with a Keynote Speaker Award in the workshop.

More details about this outstanding keynote speech can be found here.