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Call for Papers
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Telecommunication Systems (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
Special Issue on "Wireless Sensor Networks" 
(http://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~yschen/TS-sensor/call-for-papers.html)

Recent advances in digital electronics, embedded systems, and wireless communications have 
motivated a lot of research in the direction of distributed wireless sensor networks. 
Such networks may have a wide range of applications, including security and surveillance, 
control, actuation and maintenance of complex systems, and fine-grain monitoring of indoor 
and outdoor environments. Sensor networks differ from conventional network systems in many 
aspects. They usually involve a large number of spatially distributed, energy-constrained, 
self-configuring and self-aware nodes. The wireless sensor networks are bringing a lot of 
new challenges and design considerations, which go much beyond conventional network systems.

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Topics
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This special issue is intended to foster the dissemination of high quality research in topology 
control, communication protocols, data management and access techniques, and applications of 
wireless sensor networks.

Technical papers describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-art research work are 
olicited. Topics include, but not limited to:
. sensor network communication architectures
. self-configuring, self-healing schemes in sensor networks
. energy-saving and topology control
. mobility-tolerant communication protocols
. energy-efficient media access, error control, and traffic management
. collaborative information processing of sensor nodes
. transportation protocols
. data dissemination, data fusion, and information processing
. robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing
. modeling, performance evaluation, and simulation tools
. distributed resource management
. systems, platforms, and tools
. target tracking and location-based services
. localization services
. time synchronization
. data-centric routing, attribute-based addressing, and location management
. collaboration and group management of sensor nodes
. distributed networked sensing and control 
. embedded architectures and tools 
. programming models and languages 
. query processing and optimization
. security 
. services and applications (e.g., automotive, battlefield, bio, construction, 
  disaster recovery, environmental, medical, security)

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Submission Guideline 
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Authors should follow the Telecommunication Systems manuscript format described at 
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1018-4864. 
Prospective authors should submit a PDF/PS version of complete manuscript to Guest Editor
Prof. Chen at yschen@cs.ccu.edu.tw. 

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Important Date
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Manuscript Due April 30, 2003  
Acceptance Notification August 31, 2003
Final Manuscript Due Oct. 15, 2003  
Expected Publishing Date Beginning of 2004

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Guest Editors
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Prof. Yuh-Shyan Chen
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
E-mail: yschen@cs.ccu.edu.tw
URL: http://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~yschen

Prof. Yu-Chee Tseng
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
E-Mail: yctseng@csie.nctu.edu.tw
URL: http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~yctseng/ 

Dr. Ying Zhang
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
CA, USA
E-mail: yzhang@parc.com
URL: http://www2.parc.com/spl/members/yzhang/ 

Dr. Feng Zhao
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
CA, USA
E-Mail: zhao@parc.com
URL: http://www2.parc.com/spl/members/zhao/