Technical Program

Second IEEE/CreateNet Workshop on Broadband Advanced Sensor Networks (BaseNetS 2005)

Oct 3rd, 2005, Boston, MA, USA

 

08:00—08:30       Registration

08:30—10:00   Session 1: Services and Middleware (Session Chair: Jose Moura)

snBench: A Development and Run-Time Platform for the Rapid Deployment of Video SensorNet Applications
Azer Bestavros, Adam Bradley, Assaf Kfoury, and Michael Ocean (Boston University)

Semantics Services for Sensor-Rich Information Systems
Jie Liu and Feng Zhao (Microsoft Research, USA)

Understanding and Creating Behaviors in Sensor Networks using Intelligent Imagers.

      Andreas Savvides and Eugenio Culurciello (Yale University)

 

10:00—10:30  Coffee Break

 

10:30—11:30    Session 2: Keynote Speech

Prof. Gregory Pottie (University of California at Los Angeles)

 

11:30—13:00  Lunch Break

 

13:00—15:00     Session 3: Localization, Coverage and Lifetime (Session Chair: Jie Liu, Microsoft Research)

An Analysis of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator for Localization Problems
Mingbo Zhao and Sergio D. Servetto (Cornell University)

Lifetime Maximization using Observation Time Scheduling in Multi-hop Sensor Networks
Zhao Qun, Mohan Guruswamy (National University of Singapore)

On the Coverage Problem in Video-based Wireless Sensor Networks         

      Stanislava Soro and Wendi Heinzelman (University of Rochester)

Decision Making in Sensor Networks

Jose MF Moura (Carnegie Mellon University)
 

15:00—15:30  Coffee Break

15:30—17:30      Session 4: Routing (Session Chair: Nirupama Bulusu, Portland State University)

QoS-Aware Geographic Routing for Event-Driven Image Sensor Networks

      Laura Savidge, Huang Lee, Hamid Aghajan and Andrea Goldsmith  (Stanford University)

Using a Diversity Scheme for Power Aware Routing in Large Scale Sensor Networks
V.Shah Mansouri, V. Ghiasi Farrokhal, M. Mohammadnia Avval, B.H. Khalij
(Sharif University of Technology, Iran)

A Novel Routing Protocol for Ad hoc Sensor Networks Using Multiple Disjoint Paths
Xun Zhou, Yu Lu, Bin Xi (Southwest Jiatong University, Chengdu, China)

A Functional Taxonomy of Wireless Sensor Network Devices
Sivaram Cheekiralla and Daniel Engels (Auto-ID laboratory, MIT)