[Tccc] [CFP] Special Issue on Smart City, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

Yuan He heyuanatgreenorbs.org
Wed Mar 20 03:38:24 EDT 2013



 International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

Special Issue on      *Smart City*  

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/si/179450/cfp/

Call for Papers

City is taking a key role in humanity development. With the continuous
expansion of urban populations nowadays, there are increasing needs in many
aspects related to urban living, such as environment governance, public
safety, city planning, industry facilitation, resource/energy utilization,
traffic management, telemedicine/homecare, interpersonal communications,
social activities, and entertainments. Failure in addressing any of the
above needs may threaten the sustainable development of a city.

Smart city may be the solution, which generally relies on the widely
distributed smart devices to monitor the urban environment in real time, to
react in time, to establish automated control, to collect information for
intelligent decision making, and to facilitate various services and improve
the quality of urban living. The distributed network of intelligent sensor
nodes, as well as the data centers/clouds where the sensor data are stored
and shared, constructs the main body of smart city infrastructure.
Participatory sensing plays an indispensable role in the emerging
initiatives of smart city, which retrieves sensor data from groups of
people or communities and makes those data collectively form knowledge. The
proliferation of personal mobile devices and development of online social
networks make participatory sensing viable at large scale, but induce many
open problems at the same time.

The purpose of this special issue is to show the variety of research being
conducted in the area of smart city and participatory sensing. In
particular, this special issue will focus on both theoretical and practical
aspects of smart city and its applications. Potential topics include, but
are not limited to:

l   Design of hardware, software, and networking in smart city applications
l   Participatory sensing control and actuation
l   Crowdsourcing and cloud approaches for data collection, storage, and
access
l   Cross-layer protocols and interoperations across heterogeneous platforms
l   Cooperative sensing and multisource data fusion in smart city
applications
l   Information interaction of sensor network with cellular network and
Internet
l   Time and location estimation and mobility management
l   Energy management and harvesting for long-term operation
l   Experience with real-world implementation and validation of systems
l   Measurements and characterization of innovative smart city applications
l   Business, service, and billing models: incentive mechanisms
l   Security and privacy issues

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journals 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/submit/journals/ijdsn/smc/ according to the
following timetable:

Manuscript Due                Friday, 5 July 2013
First Round of Reviews      Friday, 27 September 2013
Publication Date               Friday, 22 November 2013

Guest Editors

Yuan He, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Yunhuai Liu, The Third Research Institute, Ministry of Public Security,
Shanghai, China
Yu Gu, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
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