By Daniel Marco, Enrique J. Duarte-Melo, Mingyan Liu, David L. Neuhoff (auth.), Feng Zhao, Leonidas Guibas (eds.)
This quantity comprises the complaints of the second overseas Workshop on details Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2003). The workshop used to be held on the Palo Alto examine heart (PARC), Palo Alto, California, on April 22–23, 2003. Informationprocessinginsensornetworksisaninterdisciplinaryresearcharea with deep connections to sign processing, networking and protocols, databases and knowledge administration, in addition to disbursed algorithms. as a result of - vances in MEMS microsensors, instant networking, and embedded processing, advert hoc networks of sensors have gotten more and more on hand for advertisement andmilitaryapplicationssuchasenvironmentalmonitoring(e.g.,tra?c,habitat, security), commercial sensing and diagnostics (e.g., factories, appliances), inf- constitution upkeep (e.g., strength grids, water distribution, waste disposal), and battle?eld expertise (e.g., multitarget tracking). From the engineering and computing viewpoint, sensor networks became a wealthy resource of difficulties in communique protocols, sensor tasking and keep watch over, sensor fusion, disbursed databases and algorithms, probabilistic reasoning, system/software structure, layout methodologies, and evaluate metrics. This workshop took a systemic method of handle crosslayer concerns, from the actual sensor layer to the sensor sign processing and networking degrees after which the entire technique to the functions. Following the winning 1st Workshop on Collaborative sign and Inf- mation Processing in Sensor Networks at PARC in 2001, this new workshop introduced jointly researchers from academia, undefined, and govt to p- despatched and talk about contemporary paintings referring to a number of points of sensor networks equivalent to info association, querying, routing, and self-organization, with an emphasis at the high-level info processing projects that those networks are designed to perform.