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  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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