The Fifth International Conference on
Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2009)
14-16 December 2009, Wu Yi Mountain, China
HongHong
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Keynote Speakers 
  1. Cyber Security: An Obtainable Goal?
    David H.C. Du, Qwest Chair Professor, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA 
  2. Topology Control for Sensor Area and Communication Coverage
    Ivan Stojmenovic, Professor, SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada
  3. Analytical Foundations for the Efficient, Robust, and Scalable Design of Multi-hop Wireless Networks
    Ness B. Shroff, Professor, Ohio State University, USA 

Cyber Security: An Obtainable Goal?
David H.C. Du
Qwest Chair Professor
University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA

Abstract: With the rapid technology advancement and cost reduction, we have built an enormous large Internet. Many critical applications require information to be delivered over Internet. Many small devices like sensors are gradually deployed over Internet. These devices are designed to improve our daily life by monitoring our environment, collecting critical data, and executing special instructions. These devices have gradually become an essential part of our future Internet and most of them are connected to Internet via wireless technology. In fact, the future Internet will be dominated by the connections of millions sensor networks. Unprecedented amount of data are collected by these devices. Security and privacy become great concern for this new world. To meet this challenge, the security research in sensor networks and future Internet has to be enhanced. We will discuss the current and past research directions in cyber security. What progress has being made? What are missing? Why is it so hard to make cyber space secure? Is it possible that we can accomplish our goal to make cyber space secure?

Biography: David H.C. Du Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Dr. David Du is currently the Qwest Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He has served as a Program Director (IPA) at National Science Foundation CISE/CNS Division from March 2006 to September 2008. At NSF, he was responsible for NeTS (networking research cluster) NOSS (Networks of Sensor Systems) Program and worked with two other colleagues, Karl Levitt and Ralph Wachter, on Cyber Trust Program. Dr. Du received a Ph.D. degree from University of Washington (Seattle) in 1981. He joined University of Minnesota as a faculty since 1981. Dr. Du has a wide range of research expertise including multimedia computing, mass storage systems, high-speed networking, sensor networks, cyber security, high-performance file systems and I/O, database design, and CAD for VLSI circuits. He has authored and co-authored over 210 technical papers including 100 referred journal publications in these research areas. He has graduated 49 Ph.D. and 80 M.S. students in the last 25 years.

Dr. Du is an IEEE Fellow (since 1998) and a Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute. He is currently serving on the Editorial Boards of several international journals. He has also served as Conference Chair and Program Committee Chair for several major conferences in multimedia, networking, database and security areas. Currently he is the General Chair of the 30th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2009) and Program Committee Co-Chair for the 37th International Conference on Parallel Processing (2009). He has had research grants from many federal funding agencies including NSF, DARPA, ONR, and DOE. He has a strong tie with many industrial researchers and has collaborated with a number of companies including IBM, Intel, Cisco, Symantec, Seagate, Sun Microsystems, Honeywell, etc.

Topology Control for Sensor Area and Communication Coverage
Ivan Stojmenovic
Professor
SITE, University of Ottawa, Canada

Abstract: To save energy, sensors must sleep most of the time. Thus sensors coordinate to select among themselves those that will remain active while preserving coverage of monitoring area. Active sensors then coordinate among themselves to select a backbone for communication coverage. Sensors in backbone are sensing in communicating while other active sensors are idle (sensing only). Sensors may also specialize if a heterogeneous network is considered. Data communication is performed on a backbone. This talk discusses advantages and disadvantages of commonly used methods for creating area and communication coverage: clustering, grid partitioning, energy based activity decisions, connected dominating sets, and sensor area coverage protocols. The use of localized protocols with minimal communication overhead is emphasized.

Biography: Ivan Stojmenovic received Ph.D. degree in mathematics. He held positions in Serbia, Japan, USA, Canada, France, Mexico, Spain and UK (as Chair in Applied Computing at the University of Birmingham), and is Full Professor the University of Ottawa, Canada. He published over 250 different papers, and edited four books on wireless, ad hoc and sensor networks and applied algorithms with Wiley/IEEE. He is editor of over dozen journals, editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (from January 2010), and founder and editor-in-chief of three journals (Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, and Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks, An International Journal). Stojmenovic is in the top 0.56% most cited authors in Computer Science (Citeseer 2006). One of his articles was recognized as the Fast Breaking Paper, for October 2003 (as the only one for all of computer science), by Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators. He is recipient of the Royal Society Research Merit Award, UK. He is elected to IEEE Fellow status (Communications Society, class 2008). He chaired and/or organized >50 workshops and conferences, and served in over 100 program committees. Among others, he was/is program co/vice-chair at IEEE PIMRC 2008, IEEE AINA-07, IEEE MASS-04&07, EUC-05&08, WONS-05, MSN-05&06, ISPA-05&07, founded workshop series at IEEE MASS, IEEE ICDCS and IEEE DCOSS, and Workshop Chair at IEEE MASS-09, ACM Mobicom/Mobihoc-07 and Mobihoc-08. He presented over dozen tutorials.

Analytical Foundations for the Efficient, Robust, and Scalable Design of Multi-hop Wireless Networks
Ness B. Shroff
Professor
Ohio State University, USA

Abstract: Multi-hop wireless networks are wireless systems in which wireless nodes are capable of relaying other nodes' transmissions. The ability to relay can significantly improve network performance. Further, these networks can often be implemented with minimal infrastructure needs and find a myriad of applications that have been extensively studied (e.g., mesh, sensor, MANET systems). While multi-hopping improves performance, it also significantly complicates network design, and traditional ad hoc approaches often result in poor overall performance. Thus, there is a pressing need to develop an analytical foundation that is mathematically rigorous, conceptually unifying, and leads to the development of low-complexity and practically-implementable resource allocation algorithms.

To that end, I will first describe the recent breakthroughs that have taken place in the development of such an analytical framework for the design and control of multi-hop communication networks. In particular, we will discuss the recent successes in viewing network protocols as optimizers and layering as a functional consequence of mathematical decomposition. We will show that a rigorous approach to design that accounts for complexity and scalability can lead to substantial performance gains over traditional approaches used in the state-of-the-art design of wireless systems. The gains can be achieved by the intelligent design of cross-layer solutions that extract efficiency and yet maintain a high degree of modularity and robustness to imperfect decision making.

While substantial strides have been made many interesting problems are still open. For example, while excellent progress has been made on designing for first-order performance metrics such as throughput/lifetime maximization, stability, and energy minimization, little is known about second order metrics such as delay and convergence times, which could cause significant performance degradation if not correctly designed for. In this talk, I will describe some of these open problems, the various challenges that they pose, and preliminary work on how to resolve them.

Biography: Ness B. Shroff received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 1994. He joined Purdue university immediately thereafter as an Assistant Professor in the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering. At Purdue, he became Professor of the school of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003 and director of CWSA in 2004, a university-wide center on wireless systems and applications. In July 2007, he joined the ECE and CSE departments at The Ohio State University as the Ohio Eminent Scholar of Networking and Communications, recognized as one of the most prestigious endowed chair positions in the university.

His research interests span the areas of wireless and wireline communication networks. He is especially interested in fundamental problems in the design, control, performance, pricing, and security of these networks. Dr. Shroff is a past editor for IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking and the IEEE Communication Letters. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Computer Networks Journal. He has served on the technical and executive committees of several major conferences and workshops. He was the technical program co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM'03, the premier conference in communication networking and the technical program co-chair of ACM Mobihoc'08. He was also the conference chair of the 14th Annual IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (CCW'99), and the general chair of WICON 2008. Dr. Shroff was also a co-organizer of the NSF workshop on Fundamental Research in Networking (2003) and the NSF Workshop on Future Wireless Communication Networks (2009).

Dr. Shroff is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has received numerous awards for his research including the IEEE INFOCOM 2008 best paper award,the IEEE INFOCOM 2006 best paper award, the IEEE IWQoS 2006 best student paper award, the 2005 best paper of the year award for the Journal of Commnications and Networking, the 2003 best paper of the year award for Computer Networks, and the NSF CAREER award in 1996 (his INFOCOM 2005 paper was also selected as one of two runner-up papers for the best paper award). He also currently serves as a Guest chaired Professor of Wireless Communications, in the Electronic Engineering Department at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Updated on July 17, 2009 by Chisheng Zhang