[Tccc] CFP IJDSN Special Issue on "Planning and Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks"

Nadjib Achir nadjib.achir
Fri Jul 27 08:55:10 EDT 2012


Call for Papers for  

"International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks"  

Special Issue on  

"Planning and Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks"

The area of monitoring and control of physical environments has recently  
become a hot spot in the technology landscape. Currently, a number of  
companies are offering a plethora of sensing devices with different  
phenomena's monitoring capabilities. These devices, a.k.a. sensors, can  
be tiny with limited energy and processing capabilities; they can be  
stand alone or integrated in various and they can be deployed to form  
a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in support to a variety of military,  
civil, and environmental applications. In a WSN, the sensors are also  
capable to communicate with each other and in a multihop way propagate  
sensing information to data sinks and operations centers. In the last  
few years, wireless sensor networking has been a very active research  
area in both academia and the industry with a wide variety of  
applications. While the set of challenges in sensor networks are diverse,
researches have mainly focused on fundamental networking challenges,  
which include: routing protocols and energy minimization. However, the  
performances of the proposed solutions strongly depend on the way  
sensors were positioned in the area. To that end, the goal of this  
special issue is to report on recent advances in wireless sensor network  
planning and deployment. Its scope is open for both theoretical and  
practical contributions related to WSN architecture, planning,  
deployments, and applications.

Authors are solicited to contribute to this special issue by submitting  
original articles that illustrate research results, projects, and  
industrial experiences that describe significant advances in this field.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

- WSN deployment
- WSN planning (MAC protocols, scheduling, and routing)
- Clustering in WSNs
- Large-scale WSN deployment
- WSN coverage
- Query processing for data streams
- Deployment and energy-efficient communication
- Self-organization and network reconfiguration
- Energy harvesting in WSNs
- Integrated and cross-layer solutions for WSNs
- Configuration, robustness, reliability, and failure tolerance
- Security, privacy, and trust
- Planning and deployment of multimedia sensor networks
- Planning and deployment of underwater sensor networks
- Planning and deployment of body area sensor networks
- Implementations, testbeds, and prototypes of WSN deployment
- Applications: health, environment, emergency, tracking, and so forth
- Integrated and cross-layer solutions for WSN

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author  
Guidelines, which are located at:  
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/. Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the  
journal Manuscript Tracking System at:  
http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due: Friday, 28 September 2012
First Round of Reviews: Friday, 21 December 2012
Publication Date: Friday, 15 February 2013

Lead Guest Editor
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1

Guest Editors
Nadjib Achir, University of Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cit?, 93430 Villetaneuse, France
Marc St-Hilaire, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, ON, Canada K1S 5B6
Eduardo Freire Nakamura, FUCAPI, 69075-351 Manaus, AM, Brazil; Federal University of Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil








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