Dear Colleague,

Enclosed below please find the Call for Participation for the First
Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc
Communications and Networks to be held in Santa Clara, CA from
Oct. 4-7, 2004.

The conference program consists of keynote talks, technical papers,
panels, tutorials, posters, exhibits and demos.  For complete
information about the conference, please visit:

http://www.ieee-secon.org/2004

Important Deadlines:

 Discounted Hotel Reservation Deadline: Sep. 10, 2004
 Discounted Registration Deadline: Sep. 17, 2004

We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for
Participation.  Please feel free to distribute it to those who might
be interested.

Very truly yours,

Prof. Taeib Znati
IEEE SECON 2004 General Chair

==========================================================================
                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                           IEEE SECON 2004

        First Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on
            Sensor and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks

                     Technically Co-Sponsored By:
                           IEEE ComSoc TCCC

                     Santa Clara Marriott, Hotel
                       Santa Clara, California
                          October 4-7, 2004

                       http://www.ieee-secon.org/2004

         Discounted Hotel Reservation Deadline: Sep. 10, 2004
           Discounted Registration Deadline: Sep. 17, 2004

==========================================================================

MONDAY, October 4, 2004

TUTORIALS

T1 - Monday, 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Koen Langendoen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

T2 - Monday, 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location Discovery in Sensor Networks
Andreas Savvides, Yale University

T3 - Monday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Low Power Sensor Network Development with IEEE 802.15.4 and TinyOS
Joe Polastre, Cory Sharp and Robert Szewczyk, Moteiv Corporation

T4 - Monday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Networks of Mobile Sensors
Greg Pottie, UCLA, Guohong Cao, Penn State University

************************
TUESDAY: October 5, 2004
   
   08:30 - 09:00 am:       Opening Remarks

   09:00 - 09:45 am:       Keynote Address - I
                           "A National Network - What we have learned?"
                           John Strand, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
   
   09:45 - 10:30 am:       Keynote Address - II
                          "Commercial Wireless Sensor Networks:
                          Status, Issues and Challenges" 
                          Mike Horton, CEO Crossbow Tech. Inc.
   
   10:30 - 11:00 am:       Break
                           Posters:  Routing and Forwarding
   
   11:00 - 12:30 pm:       Panel I: A view from the future: Ad hoc/Sensor
                              networks in use
                           Moderator: Suresh Singh, Portland State University

   1.30  -  3.00 pm:       Session 1: Applications
                           Session 2: Routing  I
                           Session 3: Security

   3:00  -  4:00 pm:       Break
                           Posters:  Routing and Forwarding

   4.00  -  5.10 pm:       Session 4: Quality of Service
                           Session 5: Applications and Simulators
                           Session 6: Data Analysis 

   6:30   - 8:30 pm:       RECEPTION
 
************************
WEDNESDAY: October 6, 2004

   8:30 - 10:00 am:         Panel II: Research Funding in Ad hoc/Sensor
                               Networks
                            Moderator: Anupam Joshi, University of Maryland
   
   10:00 - 11:00 am:        Break
                            Posters: Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks in Action
   
   11:00 - 12:30 pm:        Panel III: Technical Challenges in Deploying
                               Real Adhoc/Sensor Networks
                            Moderator: Mary Baker, HP Labs

   1.30  -  3.00 pm:        Session 7:  Theoretical Models
                            Session 8:  Routing  II
                            Session 9:  Energy Efficient Design

   3:00  -  3:30 pm:        Break

   3.30  -  5.00 pm:        Session 10: Communications Architectures
                            Session 11: Medium Access Control Protocols I
                            Session 12: Coverage 

   5.00  -  6.00 pm:        TC Meeting


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THURSDAY: October 7, 2004

   8:30 - 9:30 am:         Panel IV: Investor's Views: Ad hoc/Sensor Networks?
                           Moderator: Roland Van Der Meer, co-founder
                                                   ComVentures 

   09:30 - 10:30 am:       Break
                           Posters: Medium Access Control and Energy Efficiency

   10.30 - 12.00 pm:       Session 13: Localization
                           Session 14: Network and Transport Layers
                           Session 15: Connectivity and Topology Management

   1.30  -  3.00 pm:       Session 16: Medium Access Control Protocols II
                           Session 17: Data Gathering and Tracking
                           Session 18: Network Management

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