[Tccc] Call for Participation and Presentations: 2nd FRONTS/WISEBED Sensor Network School

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PRESENTATIONS
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2nd FRONTS/WISEBED Sensor-Network Winter School

12-14 October 2009
Braunschweig, Germany

http://fronts.cti.gr/school09

THEME -- Our life is now full of small devices that communicate with
each other
when they are close. Actually such devices form networks that can
potentially
support myriads of new and exciting applications. Technology would
like such
systems to be dependable and adaptive; to the user needs, sudden
changes of the
environment, specific applications characteristics. Wireless Sensor
Network (WSN)
technology is becoming more and more mature. There is variety of
hardware and
software to choose from, and almost all of them are easy to set up and
use.
Still there is a major issue that has not been sufficiently addressed
in the past.
The sensor node brands are very different in their capabilities.
Consequently, the
software running on these systems is very different on the various
nodes. Where
algorithms are implemented, they are hard to share and compare, as
implementations cannot be easily ported to new platforms.

GOALS AND AUDIENCE -- The goal of the school is to introduce the
Wiselib, our
proposal to remedy this unfortunate situation. It is a generic
algorithms library,
written in C++, that runs on a number of sensor platforms and simulation
frameworks (Contiki, TinyOs, Scatterweb, iSense, Shawn, OpenCom). It
provides
simple interfaces to the algorithm developer, with a unified API and
ready-to-use
data structure implementations.

The school will provide a good opportunity to get to know other people
working in
the field, to meet distinguished scholars, and to establish contacts
that may lead to
research collaborations in the future. The intended audience are post-
graduate
students, PhD students, and young researchers from universities around
the world.

PROGRAM -- The Winter School will last for 3 days and will include
the following
topics:
- Wiselib programming, including routing algorithms, localization
algorithms,
cryptography/security protocols, and time synchronization.
- Using the WiseML markup language for sensor network experiments,
documentation, and validation.
- Using the FRONTS remote testbed to validate Wiselib algorithms.
(see http://fronts.cti.gr/index.php/testbed for details on the
FRONTS sensor network
testing environment)

Monday
9-12 Introduction to Wiselib, network simulator Shawn (http://shawn.sourceforge.net/
),
and the School's software setup
13-16 Running experiments using the Wiselib and the FRONTS remote
testbed,
Using the Wiselib in algorithm and protocol development I
16-17 Participant presentations

Tuesday
9-12 Using the Wiselib in algorithm and protocol development II
13-16 Using the Wiselib in algorithm and protocol development III
16-17 Participant presentations

Wednesday
9-12 Advanced Wiselib programming and using WiseML.
13-16 Participant presentations
16-?? Excursion/Social Event

Further information on the 1st FRONTS/WISEBED school last year, which
focused
on the network simulator Shawn and the iSense hardware platform, can
be found at
http://fronts.cti.gr/index.php/events/105-fronts-winter-school-presentations

PRESENTATIONS -- Participants will have the opportunity to present
current
results of their work in the context of
- Sensor Networks,
- Pervasive Adaptation,
- Testbeds and Applications.
and related subjects.
By default, presentations will be 30 minutes (25 minutes talk plus 5
minutes
discussion). Of course, this is not fixed and can be adopted if
necessary.

PARTICIPATION -- Prospective participants should apply by sending an
email
with the pertinent information (name, contact information, research
area and
background) to <i.brinkmeier@tu-bs.de> before 25 September 2009.
The number of participants is limited. If we receive more
applications, participants
will be selected based on their work area and background, geographic
distribution
and date of application.

Participants are expected to arrive in the afternoon or evening of
Sunday,
11 October 2009. The school will start on Monday (12/10) morning and
end on
Wednesday (14/10) late evening.

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS -- There will be a limited number of travel
grants
available that cover accommodation costs in shared double rooms.
Successful
applicants must be MSc or PhD students in a relevant area of the
workshop.
Send your application including a short description of your research
plans,
a list of relevant publications (if any) and your current position by
25 September to
<i.brinkmeier@tu-bs.de>.

LECTURERS
Tobias Baumgartner (Braunschweig UT, Germany)
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (RACTI, Greece)
Tom Kamphans (Braunschweig UT, Germany)
Christos Koninis (RACTI, Greece)
Alexander Kroeller (Braunschweig UT, Germany)
Daniela Krueger (U Luebeck, Germany)
Dennis Pfisterer (U Luebeck, Germany)
Apostolis Pyrgelis (U Patras, Greece)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION AND VENUE -- The school is organized by

Sandor Fekete,
Alexander Kroeller and
Ingo Brinkmeier
Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks,
TU Braunschweig

It will take place at the Institute of Operating Systems and Computer
Networks,
Muehlenpfordtstr. 23, Braunschweig, Germany.
If you have any questions regarding the school, feel free to send
inquiries to
Ingo Brinkmeier at <i.brinkmeier@tu-bs.de>.

RELATED WEB PAGES

http://fronts.cti.gr/school09
http://www.wisebed.eu/
http://www.perada.eu/
http://shawn.sourceforge.net/
http://www.wisebed.eu/wiselib/

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