Third IEEE International Workshop 

on 

Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing

(PerSeNS 2007)

ADVANCE PROGRAM

Opening Remarks

Session 1: Operating System and Middleware
Session chair: Amy Murphy - University of Lugano, Switzerland & ITC-IRST, Italy

Expressing Sensor Network Interaction Patterns using Data-Driven Macroprogramming
Animesh Pathak, Amol Bakshi and Viktor K. Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA)
Luca Mottola (Politenico di Milano, Italy)
Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy)

A State-based Programming Model and System for Wireless Sensor Networks
Urs Bischoff and Gerd Kortuem (Lancaster University, UK)

An Experimental Comparison of Event Driven and Multi-Threaded Sensor Node Operating Systems
Cormac Duffy, John Herbert and Cormac Sreenan (University College Cork, Ireland)
Utz Roedig (Lancaster University, UK)

Coffee Break

Session 2: Quality of Data and Services
Session chair: Cecilia Mascolo - University of College London, UK

Data Quality and Query Cost in Wireless Sensor Networks
David Yates (Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA)
Erich Nahum (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, USA)
Jim Kurose and Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts, USA)

On Sensor Sampling and Quality of Information: A starting point
Chatschik Bisdikian (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, USA)

Exploring Non Uniform Quality of Service for Extending WSN Lifetime
Anna Egorova-Förster (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Amy L. Murphy (University of Lugano, Switzerland & ITC-IRST, Italy)

Lunch

Session 3: Performances, Security and Robustness
Session chair: Rahul Shah, Intel, Berkeley, USA

Identity-Based Encryption for Sensor Networks
Leonardo B. Oliveira, Ricardo Dahab, Júlio López and Felipe Daguano (UNICAMP, Brasil)

Localization and Coverage for High Density Sensor Networks
Abdallah Makhoul, Jacques M. Bahi and Ahmed Mostefaoui (University of Franche-Compte, France)

Energy-Efficient Data Dissemination for Wireless Sensor Networks
Marcel Busse, Thomas Haenselmann and Wolfgang Effelsberg (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Sensor Scheduling for Optimal Observability Using Estimation Entropy
Mohammad Rezaeian (University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)

Coffee break

Session 4: Routing and Path Planning
Session chair: Chatschik Bisdikian - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, New York, USA

Worst-Case Performance Evaluation of Sensor Networks
Edwin Soedarmadji (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA)

Practical Exploitation of the Energy-Latency Tradeoff for Sensor Network Broadcast
Matthew J. Miller and Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Static Path Planning for Mobile Beacons to Localize Sensor Networks
Rui Huang and Gergely V. Zaruba (The University of Texas at Arlington, USA)

Open problem session