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Call for Competitors
5th Dependability Competition at the
Intl. Conf. on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)
February 17-19, 2020 - Lyon, France
http://ewsn2020.conf.citi-lab.fr/competition.html
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Following the success of the previous four editions, the International
Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks will host also
this year a dependability competition to benchmark the performance
of state-of-the-art low-power wireless protocols under the same
settings and in harsh RF environments.
******** IMPORTANT DATES ********
- Competition entry deadline: September 27, 2019 (23:59, AoE)
- Notification of acceptance: October 11, 2019
- Remote preparation phase: from October 28, 2019 to December 19, 2019
- Submission of the final binary file: December 20, 2019 (23:59, AoE)
- Evaluation phase: from December 21, 2019 to February 16, 2020
- Camera-ready abstract: December 20, 2019 (23:59, AoE)
- Awards and poster session: February 17-19, 2020
******** SCENARIO AND CATEGORIES ********
The competition scenario will emulate the operation of a wireless
sensor network where several co-existing devices are crowding the RF
spectrum. In particular, the messages generated by several source
nodes need to be collected at a single destination in a reliable,
timely, and energy-efficient way despite the presence of interference.
In contrast to the previous editions, this year's competition will make
use of nRF52840-DK wireless nodes. Contestants are free to use any of
the technologies and physical modes supported by this platform.
Two categories are planned for this year's edition:
1) Single-hop data collection. In this category, up to 20 source nodes
generate raw sensor values of different length, which should be sent to
the same destination. The latter is located in proximity of all source
nodes and can be reached directly, i.e., in normal conditions, the sink
can be reached by every source node within a single hop.
2) Multi-hop data collection. In this category, up to 60 source nodes
generate raw sensor values of different length, which should be sent to
the same destination. The latter may be located several hops away from
a source node, even when making use of the coded PHY layers available
on the nRF52.
A detailed description of the scenario and evaluation procedure can be
found on: http://ewsn2020.conf.citi-lab.fr/competition.html).
******** FORMAT ********
The competition will take place remotely and the final results will be
announced during EWSN 2020 in Lyon.
Contestants willing to participate to the competition must submit a
short entry abstract describing their solution by the competition entry
deadline. The entry abstracts will be used to pre-select the teams
participating to the competition.
Accepted contestants will participate to a remote preparation phase
during which they can test and optimize their solution on the competition
infrastructure. At the end of this phase, all contestants will be asked
to provide a single binary file for the final evaluation phase.
Each competing team will have the possibility to publish a competition
abstract as part of the EWSN proceedings that will appear in the ACM
Digital Library. Furthermore, a poster session dedicated to the
dependability competition will take place during the main conference.
The winners of each competition's category will be awarded during a
dedicated plenary session of the main conference and will be able to
hold a plenary short presentation about their solution.
******** ELIGIBILITY ********
Both academia and industry submissions are encouraged. Any low-power
wireless protocol is eligible and there is no restriction on the operating
system used to program the sensor nodes, nor on the wireless technology
used. There is also no requirement on the originality of the competing
solutions, which can be based on well-known protocols or previously
published material. The same team can participate in multiple categories.
The EWSN 2020 dependability competition will take place if at least six
teams competing in the same category respond to this preliminary call.
******** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ********
Contestants must submit a short entry abstract describing their approach
by the competition entry deadline. This entry abstract should prominently
include the name of all members of the team, as well as their affiliation
and contact information. Furthermore, the entry abstract should clearly
state the categories for which the solution is intended. All submissions
will be treated as confidential until the camera-ready deadline.
Detailed information about the submission instructions can be found on:
http://ewsn2020.conf.citi-lab.fr/competition.html.
******** ORGANIZERS ********
- Carlo Alberto Boano and Markus Schuß (TU Graz, Austria)
- Nathalie Mitton (Inria, France)
An extended PDF version of this call for competitors can be found at:
https://tinyurl.com/y6otsd9c.
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