Workshop Report
Submitted by labrinid on Mon, 2008-10-13 15:31.The final workshop report is available (in PDF, 372KB).
The report contains the following recommendations:
- Support basic research in data management, for mobile sensor networks
- Recognize the (pervasive) role of mobile sensor networks in the building of the future cyber-infrastructure
- Support and encourage the development and ongoing maintenance of evaluation platforms
- Initiate and nurture cross-disciplinary projects involving computer science and other disciplines
(that would greatly benefit from sensor data) - Develop a taxonomy of mobile sensor network applications in order to recognize their constraints and opportunities
- Provide stable, long-term (five or more years) funding, especially for collaborative projects
- Recognize the importance of privacy, security, and trust
- Hold follow-up crosscutting workshops and meetings
NSF Workshop on Data Management for Mobile Sensor Networks (MobiSensors)
Submitted by labrinid on Fri, 2006-12-22 15:43.
This is the first workshop focusing exclusively on data management for mobile sensor networks and their applications. In the future, the digital and physical worlds are expected to be integrated and interoperated by a highly pervasive, highly mobile, and highly distributed information space which is entirely managed by sensors, static or embedded in mobile devices. Thus, the objective of the worskhop is to stimulate discussions on the data management challenges and suggest research directions facing the design, deployment, use, and fundamental limits of sensor networks with mobile nodes. By providing a forum for leading researchers from both industry and academia, this workshop will lead to a more cohesive research community and set the foundations for a wide range of new data management algorithms and techniques, focusing in quality of data (QoD) and quality of service (QoS), in the presence of resource which characterize the mobile sensor network applications that will impact all aspects of life (education, health, business, scientific exploration etc.). Further, it will facilitate the development of new standards for mobile sensor databases and will provide the synergy necessary for the US technical community to become a dominant player in this field. The results of the workshop will be made available online through the workshop web site (http://www.mobisensors.org) and will be reported in periodicals (e.g., ACM Sigmod Record, Sigmobile MC2R and IEEE TCDE Bulletin) and relevant conferences, workshops, or meetings.
Proceedings
Submitted by labrinid on Sun, 2007-01-28 23:38.Here are the slides/notes from the break-out groups:
- Applications: all-breakouts
- Architectures: breakout-2 & breakout-3
- Models and Programmability: breakout-3
- Implementation and Evaluation: breakout-1 & breakout-2
Reimbursement
Submitted by labrinid on Tue, 2007-01-23 00:41.In order to get reimbursed for expenses related to your participation to the MobiSensors workshop, please fill the Participant Expense Report Form, sign it and send the form along with your original receipts to:
Karen Dicks
Department of Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Please make sure to send these by February 17th, 2007
Breakout Groups
Submitted by panickos on Mon, 2007-01-15 21:58.Application requirements
Coordinator: Alex Labrinidis
- Applications: beyond dumb data collection and aggregation.
- From microscopes to macroscopes: sensing and response for the masses.
- How much data do you really need? Multi-resolution data acquisition.
- Location-awareness: is there anything new under the sun? Ditto for mobility.
Architectures
Coordinator: Vladimir Zadorozhny
- Heterogeneous sensor networks: a blessing in disguise?
- Getting the best out of your sensor network: Physical Network Design and Management.
SPARNET ~ Spartan Sensor Network to Improve Medical And Situational Awareness Of Foot Soldiers During Field Training
Submitted by panickos on Sun, 2007-01-14 03:29.Reed W. Hoyt, Ph.D.
Biophysics and Biomedical Modeling Division, U.S. Army Research
Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA 01760-5007
During US Army Ranger training, Soldiers engage in mentally- and
physically-demanding 3-to-10 day field exercises where food and sleep
restriction and extreme environmental conditions are common. A mobile
sensor network is needed to improve medical- and situational-awareness
during this training. The SPARNET testbed project seeks to meet this
need through the spiral development of wireless squad- and personal-area
networks that knit physiological-sensors, predictive models and
Some Personal Lessons and Insights from 15 Years of Mobile Computing
Submitted by panickos on Sun, 2007-01-14 03:10.M. Satyanarayanan
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract:
This talk is a personal retrospective on mobile computing. I first
became aware of the potential and challenges of mobile computing
around, with the emergence of laptops with enough resources
to run Unix and the emergence of NCR WaveLAN 915MHz wireless
technology. Much has happened in mobile computing in the 15 years
since then. Some of it was only of transient interest while other
developments are of deeper and longer-term significance. Recent
results offer hope that some long-standing problems may be more
List of Position papers
Submitted by panickos on Wed, 2007-01-10 14:46.Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington
Péter Pál Boda, Nokia Research Center
Amol Deshpande, University of Maryland
Gerry Eaton, Milcord
Amr El Abbadi, University of California, Santa Barbara
Brian Flanagan, The MITRE Corporation
Phillip Gibbons, Intel Research Pittsburgh
Reed Hoyt, U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Christian Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Rajgopal Kannan, Louisiana State University
Vijay Kumar, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Teja Kuruganti, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Wang-Chien Lee, The Pennsylvania State University
Vincenzo Liberatore, Case Western Reserve University
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sam Madden, MIT
Pedro Jose Marron, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Silvia Nittel, University of Maine
Sunil Prabhakar, Purdue University
George Samaras, University of Cyprus
Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California
Goce Trajcevski, Northwestern University
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Vladimir Zadorozhny, University of Pittsburgh
Deadline to submit position papers
Please submit your position papers by ***TUESDAY, JANUARY 9th, 2007***.
Deadline for hotel registration
The workshop will be held in the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel. We have made arrangements for rooms on Jan 15th, Jan 16th, and Jan 17th for the special rate of $135/night. You will need to reserve a room by ***TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26th, 2006***
Please go to: http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/pitbr?groupCode=pghpgha&app=resvlink to make a reservation as soon as possible.