[Tccc] CFP - Recent Advances in the Design of MAC Protocols for WSNs (Hindawi)
cristina cano
cristina.cano
Mon Oct 10 10:48:47 EDT 2011
*Recent Advances in the Design of MAC Protocols for WSNs - International
Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (Hindawi) - ** Open Special Issue*
*Call for Papers*
In the last few years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have become an
interesting field of research mainly due to the challenges and constraints
of their design but also motivated by the broad range of potential
applications they can provide, covering from low-rate infrequent
transmissions (monitoring WSNs) to real-time video communication (multimedia
WSNs).
Among the different constraints that affect the design of WSNs, the most
important one is the limited energy resources of the sensor nodes. This
issue should be considered in the design of the entire protocol stack, but
especially in the medium access control (MAC) layer as it is the one
responsible for controlling the transceiver, that is the most consuming
component of a sensor node.
The heterogeneity of applications and scenarios of WSNs has motivated the
design of a large number of different MAC protocols in order to address the
different requirements and constraints. Consequently, this plethora of
solutions makes it difficult to perform a straightforward election of the
MAC protocol, especially if the WSN has to support multiple and different
requirements.
The proposed special issue aims at presenting state-of-the-art solutions
regarding MAC protocols and discussing new design methodologies for next
generation WSNs, with special interest on hybrid, adaptive, and
self-configurable MAC protocols that are able to efficiently cope with
variable application and network requirements. Potential topics include, but
are not limited to:
* TDMA-like MAC protocols
* MAC protocols with common active periods
* Asynchronous MAC protocols
* Game-theoretic and learning-MAC protocols
* Application, context, and traffic-aware MAC protocols
* Cognitive radio and multichannel MAC protocols
* MAC protocols for multimedia WSNs
* MAC protocols for periodic/event-based/query-based WSNs
* MAC protocols for mobile WSNs
* MAC protocols for WSNs in industrial standards (ZigBee, WMBUS, etc.)
* Synchronization issues in WSNs
* Network/MAC/PHY cross-layer design in WSNs
* Self-organization algorithms and techniques for WSNs
* Realistic simulation of MAC protocols for WSNs, comparison/analysis of
different MAC designs for WSNs
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, 16 December 2011*
First Round of Reviews: Friday, 16 March 2012
Publication Date: Friday, 15 June 2012
*More Info:* http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/si/dmacp/
Lead Guest Editor
* Torsten Braun, Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,
University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Guest Editors
* Boris Bellalta, Department of Information and Communication
Technologies, Pompeu Fabra University, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
* Evgeny Osipov, Department of Computer Science and Electrical
Engineering, Lule? University of Technology, 97187 Lule?, Sweden
* Cristina Cano, Department of Information and Communication
Technologies, Pompeu Fabra University, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
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Cristina Cano
Department of Information and Communication Technologies
Pompeu Fabra University
08018 Barcelona, Spain
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