The Third International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks
Executive Committee
- Submission Chair
- Rafael Falcon (University of Ottawa, Canada)
- General Chair
- Ivan Stojmenovic (University of Ottawa, Canada)
- Program Co-Chairs
- Jiming Chen (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
- Hannes Frey (University of Paderborn, Germany)
- Xu Li (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Publicity Co-Chairs
- Cailian Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China)
- Mianxiong Dong (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Hangguan Shan (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)
Message from the Workshop Chairs
It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the third IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks (WiSARN 2011).
This workshop covers the field of wireless sensor, actuator and robot networks. Sensor networks consist of small sensor nodes which are embedded in the physical world. Their task is to monitor certain physical phenomena and to report their measurements to data sinks. While sensor networks just observe the physical world, recently it has been recognized that it would be beneficial to augment such networks with actors. Actors may be simple static actuator devices (e.g., sprinklers) programmed to take immediate, one-shot, action in response to sensory input, or sophisticated entities such as mobile robots that are able to make complex decisions and take appropriate actions on themselves, sensors and/or the environment.
In response to the call-for-papers, this third edition of the workshop received 27 high quality submissions, coming from different countries all around the globe. The program committee selected 16 papers for presentation at the workshop. The accepted papers cover the topics of mobility management, localization, topology control, data communications, data aggregation and collection, localization, and performance evaluation and experimental study.
The technical program committee consisted of 30 experts covering many of the different aspects of wireless sensor, actuator and robot networks. Each paper was carefully reviewed by at least two program committee members. Most submissions received three reviews, which were all collected electronically, and carefully revised by the program chairs. We appreciate the outstanding work performed by our TPC members, as well as the support from the IEEE INFOCOM 2011 organizers and committees for their help in dealing with final papers, copyright forms, and workshop registrations.
We hope you enjoy the workshop.
Dr. Ivan Stojmenovic, General ChairDr. Jiming Chen, TPC Co-chair
Dr. Hannes Frey, TPC Co-chair
Dr. Xu Li, TPC Co-chair
Mr. Rafael Falcon, Submission Chair
Dr. Cailian Chen, Publicity Co-chair
Mr. Mianxiong Dong, Publicity Co-chair
Dr. Hangguan Shan, Publicity Co-chair
Technical Program Committee
Kemal Akkaya | Southern Illinois University Carbondale | USA |
Matthias Brust | University of Central Florida | USA |
Cailian Chen | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | P.R. China |
Jiming Chen | Zhejiang University | P.R. China |
Marco Conti | IIT-CNR | Italy |
Dimos Dimarogonas | KTH | Sweden |
Rafael Falcon | University of Ottawa | Canada |
Yongchun Fang | Nankai University | P.R. China |
Hannes Frey | University of Paderborn | Germany |
Daniel Goergen | Philips Research | The Netherlands |
François Ingelrest | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Switzerland |
Anis Koubaa | Al-Imam University/CISTER Research Unit | Saudi Arabia |
Xiaoyan Li | Lafayette College | USA |
Xu Li | University of Waterloo | Canada |
Xiaodong Lin | University of Ontario Institute of Technology | Canada |
Bingbing Liu | A*STAR | Singapore |
Rongxing Lu | University of Waterloo | Canada |
Amiya Nayak | SITE, University of Ottawa | Canada |
Stephan Olariu | Old Dominion University | USA |
Jianping Pan | University of Victoria | Canada |
Ioannis Paschalidis | Boston University | USA |
Carlos Ribeiro | Technological Institute of Aeronautics | Brazil |
Pedro M. Ruiz | University of Murcia | Spain |
Sherman Shen | University of Waterloo | Canada |
Wei Shi | University of Ontario Institute of Technology | Canada |
David Simplot-Ryl | Université Lille1 - Sciences et Technologies | France |
YeQiong Song | LORIA - Nancy University - INPL | France |
Ivan Stojmenovic | University of Ottawa | Canada |
Volker Turau | Hamburg University of Technology | Germany |
Damla Turgut | University of Central Florida | USA |
Peter Widmayer | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
Guoliang Xing | Michigan State University | USA |
Guanghong Yang | Northeast University | P.R. China |
Mohamed Younis | University of Maryland Baltimore County | USA |
Haojin Zhu | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | P.R. China |