Prof Dharma P Agarwal from University of Cincinnati, US inaugurated the meet while prof Pascal Lorenz from France presided over the function held in the IIIT-A auditorium.

IIIT-A director, Dr MD Tiwari said that wireless communication and sensor networks occupy a very important place in creating the ubiquitous environments that would have profound influence on the society. The wireless communication technologies and devices are fast converging and soon would allow the creation of a global wireless network that would be the backbone of variety of ubiquitous services. Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSAN) would influence the world through their pervasive nature in remote distributive monitoring and control by taking advantage of the developments in wireless communication, embedded systems, semantic web and smart surroundings, etc. Despite of its promise, many breakthroughs in power aware designs, availability of wireless channel bandwidths, etc, are needed. To build large and sustainable systems, these energy and bandwidth constraints present 0fundamental challenges in developing intelligent, distributive, collaborative, multi-modal networked objects that sense and act in wide areas and in unattended environments. The conference tries to spur these developments by bringing the researchers together to share their research, experiences and their perceptions.

A total of seventy seven papers from different countries, including Korea, Brazil, Check Republic, China, Iraq, Mauritius etc have been accepted for this international conference, which will discuss primarily wireless sensor networks, architectures and protocols, wireless sensor network architectures, self organising, flexible, semantic wireless sensor networks, energy-aware network protocols and power management, socalisation and synchronisation, security and privacy in wireless sensor actuator networks.

The other areas include sensors and technologies for WSAN, architecture, design and fabrication of smart wireless sensors, motes and RF tags, sensor technologies and smart dust, MEMS and nanotechnologies, biosensors, real time operating systems for WSANs and programming environments, added Dr Shekhar Verma.

Under WSAN application, deployment and eExperiences, various themes such as surveillance, disaster prediction and management, transportation and traffic management, security and defence, environmental monitoring and ecology, mining, industrial production, building construction and monitoring, entertainment and interfacing with real world applications will be discussed by the experts.

Prof US Tiwari, organiser said that the issues of broadband mobile communication systems, wireless technologies for sensors, transmitters and receiver components, bluetooth technologies, developments in RF, home networks, mobile intelligent networks, security aspects, reliability and ubiquitous computing environments will also be part of the conference.

Thrust will also be given to mobile ad-hoc networks, which have MANET protocol engineering, mobile intelligent networks, mobile computing devices, peer to peer tuning and vehicular networks, said Prof M Radhakrishna, organiser.