Abstract
This special issue presents the best papers from the second annual Innovations and Real-Time Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks Conference that was held in Washington, DC in 2006. We were lucky to be able to host such a large crowd of distinguished researchers. Half of the papers presented here are produced by researchers that collaborated in the DARPA SensIT program that started modern sensor network research under program manager Sri Kumar's tutelage.
These papers were found to be among the best presented at the conference. A committee was chosen to select the most interesting results. Mr. Ray and Dr. Varshney of Syracuse explain how to dynamically tune detection thresholds. Dr. Park of LSU and Dr. Sivakumar of Georgia Tech present a new approach to data correlation. Dr. Lim's research team at Auburn university describe an important application of sensor networks for Tsunami detection. Finally, Ms. Qu and Dr. Wicker of Cornell present a novel scheme for geographic routing.
The third annual conference was just held in Shreveport and the organizers thank everyone for their participation.