Sensor Systems and Software

1. Front Matter

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2. Applying Complex Event Processing and Extending Sensor Web Enablement to a Health Care Sensor Network Architecture

   • Gavin E. Churcher, Jeff Foley

   Pages 1-10

3. Turn-Based Gesture Interaction in Mobile Devices

   • Sanna Kallio, Panu Korpipää, Jukka Linjama, Juha Kela

   Pages 11-19

4. A Large-Scale Wireless Network Approach for Intelligent and Automated Meter Reading of Residential Electricity

   • Victor Custodio, Jose Ignacio Moreno, Juan Pablo Viñuela

   Pages 20-32

5. Weak Process Models for Attack Detection in a Clustered Sensor Network Using Mobile Agents

   • Marco Pugliese, Annarita Giani, Fortunato Santucci

   Pages 33-50

6. Key Establishment Using Group Information for Wireless Sensor Networks

   • William R. Claycomb, Rodrigo Lopes, Dongwan Shin, Byunggi Kim

   Pages 51-65

7. A Forward and Backward Secure Key Management in Wireless Sensor Networks for PCS/SCADA

   • Hani Alzaid, DongGook Park, Juan González Nieto, Colin Boyd, Ernest Foo

   Pages 66-82

8. Analysis of Channel Access Delay of Slotted CSMA/CA in a WSN

   • Alexandre Guitton, Nassima Hadid

   Pages 83-97

9. Accurate Analysis of IEEE 802.15.4 Slotted CSMA/CA over a Real-Time Wireless Sensor Network

   • Wen-Tzeng Huang, Jing-Ting Lin, Chin-Hsing Chen, Yuan-Jen Chang, You-Yin Chen

   Pages 98-110

10. Physical Characterization of Acoustic Communication Channel Properties in Underwater Mobile Sensor Networks

    • Andrea Caiti, Emanuele Crisostomi, Andrea Munafò

    Pages 111-126

11. A Code Generator for Distributing Sensor Data Models

    • Urs Hunkeler, Paolo Scotton

    Pages 127-143

12. Integer-Based Optimisations for Resource-Constrained Sensor Platforms

    • Michael Zoumboulakis, George Roussos

    Pages 144-157

13. ProSe: A Programming Tool for Rapid Prototyping of Sensor Networks

    • Mahesh Arumugam, Sandeep S. Kulkarni

    Pages 158-173

14. Energy-Aware Dynamic Route Management for THAWS

    • Chong Shen, Sean Harte, Emanuel Popovici, Brendan O’Flynn, John Barton

    Pages 174-188

15. All Roads Lead to Rome: Data Highways for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks

    • David Lowe, Daniele Miorandi

    Pages 189-205

16. Sensor Data Fusion for Activity Monitoring in Ambient Assisted Living Environments

    • M. Amoretti, F. Wientapper, F. Furfari, S. Lenzi, S. Chessa

    Pages 206-221

17. Trade-off Analysis of a MAC Protocol for Wireless e-Emergency Systems

    • Óscar Gama, Paulo Carvalho, J. A. Afonso, P. M. Mendes

    Pages 222-235

18. An Underwater Robotic Network for Monitoring Nuclear Waste Storage Pools

    • Sarfraz Nawaz, Muzammil Hussain, Simon Watson, Niki Trigoni, Peter N. Green

    Pages 236-255

19. Evaluation of the Impact of the Topology and Hidden Nodes in the Performance of a ZigBee Network

    • Helena Fernández-López, Pedro Macedo, José A. Afonso, J. H. Correia, Ricardo Simões

    Pages 256-271

20. Coordinated Sleeping for Beaconless 802.15.4-Based Multihop Networks

    • A. G. Ruzzelli, A. Schoofs, G. M. P. O’Hare, M. Aoun, P. van der Stok

    Pages 272-287

The First International ICST Conference on Sensor Systems and Software (S-cube 2009) was held during 7–8 September in Pisa, Italy. This new international conference was dedicated to addressing the research challenges facing system dev- opment and software support for systems based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that have the potential to impact society in many ways. Currently, wireless sensor networks introduce innovative and interesting application scenarios that may support a large amount of different applications including environmental monitoring, disaster prevention, building automation, object tracking, nuclear reactor control, fire det- tion, agriculture, healthcare, and traffic monitoring. The widespread acceptance of these new services can be improved by the definition of frameworks and architectures that have the potential to radically simplify software development for wireless sensor network-based applications. The aim of these new architectures is to support flexible, scalable programming of applications based on adaptive middleware. As a con- quence, WSNs require novel programming paradigms and technologies. Moreover, the design of new complex systems, characterized by the interaction of different and heterogeneous resources, will allow the development of innovative applications that meet high-performance goals. Hence, WSNs require contributions from many fields such as embedded systems, distributed systems, data management, system security and applications. The conference places emphasis on layers well above the traditional MAC and routing and transport layer protocols.

• MANET
• Peer
• ZigBee
• assisted living
• distributed systems
• health care
• healthcare
• mobile agents
• multi-hop networks
• routing
• security
• sensor networks
• underwater networks
• wireless sensor networks

• Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  Stephen Hailes

• Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

  Sabrina Sicari

• School of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of London, London, United Kingdom

  George Roussos

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