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

Nadjib Achir nadjib.achir
Thu Jul 5 05:11:14 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
hould 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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