The Sixth Annual IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) will be held June 22-26 at the Centro Congressi Cavour in Rome, Italy. Hosted by the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE SECON 2009 is dedicated to the latest applications, practical implementations, commercial developments, and research as well as the future direction of sensor, mesh, and ad hoc communications and networks.

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IEEE SECON 2009 will commence on June 22 with a full day of workshops that will extend into June 23. The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks (WIMESH) will host sessions on scheduling and throughput maximization, routing, and measurements and routing. Concurrently, the IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Network Coding (WiNC) will explore efficient network coding algorithms for dynamic networks and other topics.

The Fourth IEEE Workshop on Networking Technologies for Software Defined Radio (SDR) Networks will highlight the latest research on network coded cognitive control channels, Wi-Fi/WiMAX multiradio devices, dynamic spectrum access networks and aggregated on/off processes, and application requirements for cognitive wireless. Also, several sessions will focus on “Discovery of the M2M World and the Wavenis Open Standard Alliance.”

Amin Shokrollahi, chief scientist at the Digital Foundation, will lead off the sessions on June 23 with a keynote on “Reliable Data Delivery on Unreliable Networks.” His talk will look at fountain codes and their potential for creating data delivery networks that disseminate rich media and dynamic data from any point to any person at any time. He also will discuss how these codes can be used to design reliable and speedy end-to-end data transmission systems that distribute information from one or multiple transmitters to one or multiple receivers.

The conference will feature more than 100 technical presentations, panels, poster sessions, and demonstrations on topics such as directions in sensor network research, energy awareness and routing, cognitive radio, schedule, security, network coding, and applications. Specific titles include “Cooperation in Ad Hoc Networks with Noisy Channels” and “Diversity Routing for Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Cooperative Transmissions.”

IEEE SECON 2009