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
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Best regards,
Erdal Cayirci
GaTech
Ramesh
Govindan
ICSI
Taieb Znati
NSF
Mani
Srivastava
UCLA
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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papers describing previously unpublished, original,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