IPSN, the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, is an

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sensor networks Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental ...

with its main focus on

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aspects of sensor networks. IPSN draws upon many disciplines including

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and

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and

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and

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design, and

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s and

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IPSN Events

IPSN started in 2001, and following is a list of IPSN events from 2001 through 2023: * 22nd IPSN 2023, San Antonio, USA, May 9–12, 2023. * 21st IPSN 2022, Milan, Italy, May 4–6, 2022. * 20th IPSN 2021, Nashville, USA, May 18–21, 2021. * 19th IPSN 2020, Sydney, Australia, April 21–24, 2020. * 18th IPSN 2019, Montreal, Canada, April 16–18, 2019. * 17th IPSN 2018, Porto, Portugal, April 11–13, 2018. * 16th IPSN 2017, Pittsburgh, USA, April 18–21, 2017. * 15th IPSN 2016, Vienna, Austria, April 11–14, 2016. * 14th IPSN 2015, Seattle, USA, April 15–17, 2015. * 13th IPSN 2014, Berlin, Germany, April 15–17, 2014 * 12th IPSN 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA, April 8–11, 2013 * 11th IPSN 2012, Beijing, China, April 16–19, 2012 * 10th IPSN 2011, Chicago, IL, USA, April 12–14, 2011 * 9th IPSN 2010, Stockholm, Sweden, April 12–16, 2010 * 8th IPSN 2009, San Francisco, California, USA, April 13–16, 2009 * 7th IPSN 2008, (Washington U.) St. Louis, Missouri, USA, April 22–24, 2008 * 6th IPSN 2007, (MIT) Cambridge, MA, USA, April 25–27, 2007 * 5th IPSN 2006, (Vanderbilt) Nashville, Tennessee, USA, April 19–21, 2006 * 4th IPSN 2005, (UCLA) Los Angeles, CA, USA, April 25–27, 2005 * 3rd IPSN 2004, (UC Berkeley) Berkeley, CA, USA, April 26–27, 2004 * 2nd IPSN 2003, (Xerox PARC) Palo Alto, CA, USA, April 22–23, 2003 * CSP Workshop 2001, (Xerox PARC) Palo Alto, CA (see history subsection for name explanation)

Ranking

Although there is no official ranking of

s on

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, IPSN is widely regarded by researchers as one of the two (along with SenSys) most prestigious conferences focusing on

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research. SenSys focuses more on system issues while IPSN on algorithmic and theoretical considerations. The

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for 2006 was 15.2% for oral presentations, 25% overall (25 papers +17 poster presentations, out of 165 submissions accepted).

History

IPSN started off as a workshop at

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in 2001, and it was initially called ''Collaborative Signal Processing Workshop'' (CSP Workshop). Following the success of the first event, in 2003, the workshop defined its focus more on

and was renamed ''International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks'' (IPSN). The event kept the name

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IPSN from 2003 onwards, but the full name changed from ''International Symposium on Information Processing in Sensor Networks'' (2003–2004) to ''International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks'' (2005–2007). It is expected that IPSN would keep the full name ''International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks'' for the coming years.

SPOTS Track

In 2005 IPSN introduced a separate track on Sensor Platforms, Tools and Design Methods (SPOTS) to the conference. The focus of the IPSN track is more on information processing algorithms, and the focus of SPOTS track is on platform tools and design methods for

network embedded sensors Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) refer to networks of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors that monitor and record the physical conditions of the environment and forward the collected data to a central location. WSNs can measure environmental ...

References

External links

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IPSN Bibliography
(from

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