Dear Colleague, Enclosed below and attached please find the Call for Papers for the Special Issue Computer Networks (Elsevier) on Wireless Sensor networks. We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers. Please feel free to distribute it. Best regards, Erdal Cayirci GaTech Ramesh Govindan ICSI Taieb Znati NSF Mani Srivastava UCLA ==================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue Computer Networks (Elsevier) on "Wireless Sensor Networks" Recent advances in digital electronics, embedded systems and wireless communications are leading the way to a new class of distributed wireless sensor networks. These networks have a wide range of potential applications, including security and surveillance, control, actuation and maintenance of complex systems, and fine-grain monitoring of indoor and outdoor environments. Sensor networks differ from conventional network systems in many aspects. They usually involve a large number of spatially distributed, energy-constrained, self-configuring and self-aware nodes. Furthermore, they tend to be autonomous and require a high degree of cooperation and adaptation to perform the desired coordinated tasks and networking functionalities. As such, they bring about new challenges and design considerations, which go much beyond conventional network systems. This special issue of Computer Networks is intended to foster the dissemination of high quality research in communication protocols, data management and access techniques, and applications of wireless sensor networks. We hope that the resulting issue will significantly advance our understanding of this nascent area of research. Only technical papers describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-art research, and not currently under review by another conference or journal, will be considered. We solicit papers covering a variety of topics related to wireless sensor networks including, but not limited to: - Novel applications of sensor networks for surveillance, fine-grain instrumentation, and actuation - New sensor network communication architectures - Software platforms and tools for sensor network application development - Energy-efficient media access, error control, and traffic management - Energy-efficient systems services such as localization and time synchronization - Scalable, and energy-efficient, data-dissemination schemes - Robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing - Mechanisms for authenticated, secure communication - Modeling and performance evaluation of large-scale sensor network algorithms - Application specific network and systems services, including data-centric routing, attribute-based addressing, and location management Authors should follow the Computer Networks (Elsevier) manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/compnw. Prospective authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript according to the following timetable to: sensornet@cs.itu.edu.tr Manuscript Due: October 15, 2002 Acceptance Notification: January 14, 2003 Final Manuscript Due: March 11, 2003 Publication Date: August 2003 Erdal Cayirci BWN Lab. Sch. of Elec.&Comp. Eng. Georgia Inst. of Tech. Atlanta, GA 30332 erdal@ece.gatech.edu Ramesh Govindan International Comp. Sci. Inst. Berkeley, CA 94704-1198 ramesh@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU Taieb Znati Div. of Adv. Net. Inf. & Res. The Nat. Science Foundation Arlington, VA 22230 tznati@nsf.gov Mani Srivastava Elec. Eng. Department UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594 mbs@ee.ucla.edu