Fourth IEEE International Workshop 

on 

Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing

(PerSeNS 2008)

Preliminary Program

8:30 Opening Remarks

9:00 - 10:00 Session 1: Networking architectures and protocols
Chair: Fabio A. Schreiber, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Distributed Interactions with Wireless Sensors Using TinySIP for Hospital Automation
Sudha Krishnamurthy (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany), Lajos Lange (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany),
Topology formation in IEEE 802.15.4: cluster-tree characterization
Francesca Cuomo, Sara Della Luna, Emanuele Cipollone (University of Rome La Sapienza), Petia Todorova (Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany), Tapio Suihko (Technical Research Centre of Finland),

10:30 - 1:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00 Session 2: Middleware and Software Tools
Chair: Mohan Kumar, University of Texas, Arling, USA
PERLA: a Data Language for Pervasive Systems
Fabio Schreiber, Romolo Campani, Marco Fortunato, Marco Marelli, Filippo Pacifici (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Lightweight Sensor Network Management System Design
Fenghua Yuan, Wen-Zhan Song, Nina Peterson, Yang Peng, Lei Wang, Behrooz Shirazi (Washington State University, USA)
Information Agents for Pervasive Sensor Networks
Alex Rogers (University of Southampton, UK), Mike Osborne (University of Oxford, UK), Sarvapali D. Ramchurn (University of Southampton, UK), Stephen Roberts (University of Oxford, UK), Nicholas R Jennings (University of Southampton, UK)

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 Session 3: Power Management, Modeling and Performance Evaluation
Chair: Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA
Analysis of On-off Policies in Sensor Networks using Interacting Markovian Agents
Marco Gribaudo, Davide Cerotti (Università di Torino), Andrea Bobbio (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
Budget-Based Clustering with Context-awareness for Sensor Networks
Jiaxi You, Dominik Lieckfeldt, Matthias Handy, Dirk Timmermann (University of Rostock, Germany)
Stability and Delay Analysis for Multi-Hop Single-Sink Wireless Sensor Networks
Muhammad Farukh Munir (Institut Eurécom, France), Arzad Alam Kherani, Indian Institute of Technology, India), Fethi Filali (Institut Eurécom, France)

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:30 Session 4: Algorithms for Localization and Security
Chair: Qi Han, Colorado School of Mines, USA
An Algorithm for Distributed Beacon Selection
Dominik Lieckfeldt, Jiaxi You, Dirk Timmermann (University of Rostock, Germany)
A Group Key Management Scheme with Revocation and Loss-tolerance Capability for WSNs
Linchun Li, Jianhua Li, Ping Yi, Yue Wu.

4:30 Invited Talk
Pervasive Security with Sensor Networks
Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA