IPSN 2024

The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) is the leading annual forum on research at the intersection of networked embedded sensing, control, and systems design. IPSN brings together researchers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research on all aspects of networked systems of sensors and actuators. Its scope includes signal and image processing, information and coding theory, databases and information management, distributed algorithms, networks and protocols, wireless communications, collaborative objects, the Internet of Things, machine learning, mobile and social sensing, and embedded systems design. Of special interest are contributions at the confluence of multiple of these areas.

IPSN 2024 is co-located with the CPS-IoT Week, the premier venue for research and development of cyber-physical systems. IPSN is co-sponsored by both the ACM and IEEE, and it continues to emphasize research that bridges multiple research communities. IPSN is interested in all aspects of sensor networks, ranging from traditional topics such as networking to more recent developments such as embedded machine learning, RF sensing and computer vision.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Systems, Architectures, and Tools
  • Sensor data storage, retrieval, processing
  • Network and system architectures and protocols
  • IoT gateway platform architecture and services
  • Wearable systems and data processing algorithms
  • Programming models, languages, and systems
  • Programming models for IoT ensembles
  • Modeling, simulation, and measurement tools
  • Operating systems and runtime environments
  • Discovery, coordination, and use of IoT services
  • IoT reliability, adaptability, and dependability
  • Technical assessment of emerging IoT standards
• Algorithms, Data, and Theory
  • Localization, synchronization, RFID, and RF sensing
  • VLC and visible light based sensing
  • Data related issues, such as methods, tools, and analysis
  • Coding, compression, and information theory
  • Theoretical foundations and fundamental bounds
• Applications
  • Applications in health, wellness & sustainability
  • Applications in smart cities and urban health
  • Experiences, challenges, comparisons of platforms
  • Sensor-enabled autonomous vehicle platforms and algorithms
  • Outdoor, wide-area, or crowdsourced sensing systems
  • Sensor data processing for augmented and virtual reality applications
• Security and Privacy
  • Security, trustworthiness, and privacy for IoT systems
  • Fairness, equity, and transparency issues in IoT and CPS
• Machine Learning
  • Large foundational models (LFMs) for sensor data analytics, distillation of LFMs to edge platforms
  • Machine learning, deep, federated and multimodal learning on sensor data
  • Novel embedded machine learning algorithms for resource-constrained and mobile platforms
  • New hardware and system design to enable machine learning on sensor data

In addition to the established Best Paper Award, IPSN 2024 will provide a Best Research Artifact Award to the authors who have contributed the research artifact that is judged to be the most novel, easy to use, well documented, and useful to advance research. Research artifacts, such as code, data sets, and tools, are highly encouraged to be submitted or made available simultaneously with paper submission.

IPSN 2024 accepts double-blind paper submissions which have not been previously published. Posted technical reports (ArXiv or similar) do not count as prior publication and do not violate the double-blind requirement. Submitted manuscripts are up to 12 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages with 9-pt font size in two-column format, inclusive of figures, tables, and references, following the ACM primary article template. LaTeX submissions should use the acmart.cls template (use \documentclass[sigconf,nonacm]{acmart} option), with the default 9-pt font. Papers are to be submitted at https://ipsn2024.hotcrp.com/. During the review process, the reviewers may anonymously communicate with the authors for clarifying questions.

IPSN collaborates closely with the IoTDI conference, given the proximity in research themes (both related to IoT) and the co-location in CPS-IoT Week. We provide submission guidelines to aid prospective authors with the conference venue selection.

Selected outstanding papers may be fast-tracked as a special section of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks.