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Subject: Wireless Sensor Networks Date: Thursday 01 January 1970 01:00 From: "EURASIP JWCN Alert" wcn@hindawi.com.eg To: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at
EURASIP JWCN Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks
Call for Papers
Recent advances in integrated circuit and digital wireless communication technologies have enabled the design of wireless sensor networks to facilitate the joint processing of spatially and temporally distributed information. Such networks greatly enhance our ability to understand and evaluate complex systems and environments. Using wireless connectivity for sensor networks offers increased flexibility in the deployment and reconfiguration of the network and reduces the infrastructure cost. These advantages will enable sensor networks to monitor complex environments for applications ranging from battlefield surveillance to environment monitoring and telemedicine control.
Enormous challenges in the understanding of sensor networks presently impede deployment of many of the envisaged applications. In particular, for wireless sensor networks that employ in situ unattended sensors, physical constraints integrating power, bandwidth, and cost have presented significant challenges as well as research opportunities in the field. One of the major concerns is maintaining connectivity: the geographical disperseness of the sensor nodes and the ad hoc network structure, coupled with the above-mentioned resource constraints, make this a unique challenge. Maintaining efficient network operation is further exacerbated by the volume of data generated by the sensors, which is disproportionally large compared with the network capacity. This special issue is intended to provide a venue for the dissemination of high-quality research addressing these challenges for wireless sensor networks. We solicit original contributions that have direct connection to or impact on the communications and networking design of wireless sensor networks.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
o Integrated sensing, processing, communications, and networking; o Channel-aware and distributed sensing and processing; o Joint-source channel coding for wireless sensor networks; o Fundamental performance limits and information-theoretic study of wireless sensor networks; o Fading and diversity in wireless sensor networks o Distributed data and sensor management o Network protocols for wireless sensor networks o Cross-layer design techniques o Energy management o Distributed self-organization o Support for quality of service (QoS) in wireless sensor networks
Authors should follow the EURASIP JWCN manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com.eg/wcn/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JWCN's manuscript tracking system at the journal web site according to the following timetable.
Manuscript Due December 1, 2004 Acceptance Notification May 1, 2005 Final Manuscript Due June 15, 2005 Publication Date 4th Quarter, 2005
Guest Editors:
Biao Chen, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
Wendi Heinzelman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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