CFP : IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks Theory and Systems

CFP : IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks Theory and Systems
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Call for Papers Special Issue on "Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Systems" IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Theme Driven by advances in MEMS micro-sensors, wireless networking, and embedded processing, ad-hoc networks of sensors are becoming increasingly available for commercial and military applications such as environmental monitoring (e.g., traffic, habitat, security), industrial sensing and diagnostics (e.g., factory, appliances), monitoring critical infrastructures (e.g., power grids, water distribution, waste disposal), and collecting data for battlefield awareness. Information processing in sensor networks is an interdisciplinary research area, which spans the areas of signal processing/detection/estimation, networking and protocols, embedded systems, data bases and information management, as well as distributed algorithms. It opens up new research venues, which include sensor tasking and control, tracking and localization, probabilistic reasoning, sensor data fusion, distributed data bases, communication protocols and theory that address network coverage, connectivity, and capacity, as well as system/software architecture and design methodologies. Moreover, all these issues have to consider many cross-cutting requirements such as efficiency/cost tradeoff, robustness, self-organization, fault-tolerance, timeliness, scalability, and network longevity. Topics of Interest This special issue calls for articles that highlight technical issues from physical device design, signal processing, network protocols/algorithms, to revolutionary new applications enabled by sensor network technology. In particular, we are seeking contributions in all aspects of sensor networks. Of particular interests are (i) Articles that summarize the fundamental performance and behavior limits of sensor networks with respect to sensor network capacity, coverage, connectivity, and/or lifetime. As wireless sensor networks must operate under extreme resource constraints, an understanding of the fundamental performance limits of such networks will provide valuable insights into what designs make sense and can help identify areas in which theory promises performance much better than that attained by existing designs. (ii) Articles that outline algorithms which realize certain sensor network operation, such as localization, time synchronization and target tracking, and their theoretical base. Articles of this type should focus on comparing alternative algorithms/approaches with respect to the various sensor network requirements outlined above. (iii) Articles that deal with system implementations, experiments, and experiences in application domains. At an early stage of sensor network development, one can analyze and predict network behavior through simulation and theoretical reasoning. However, a true evaluation of system performance can only be obtained through implementation and direct measurement and experimentation of the prototype. Hence articles that report the system implementation issues with an emphasis on the cross-layer design tradeoffs will shed lights on how effective the overall system design is. Example topical areas of interests include, but not limited to * Coding and information theory * Detection, classification, and estimation * Distributed networked sensing and control * Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion * Data-centric routing and attribute based addressing * Energy efficient medium access control and resource management * Localization, tracking and time synchronization * Network coverage, connectivity, and longevity * Query processing and optimization * Security * Simulation environments and systems prototyping * Sensor network applications and services Publication Schedule Manuscript due: January 1st Acceptance notification: March 1st Final manuscript due: May 1st Expected publication date: August Submission Instruction All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html. Electronic submissions are accepted only in Postscript and PDF formats and should be sent to havinga@cs.utwente.nl or jhou@cs.uiuc.edu directly. If you have any questions, please contact any one of the guest editors. Submissions must meet the following criteria: - A paper must be material that has not been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal. - Each submitted paper should be no longer than the equivalent of 15 double space pages excluding figures, graphs, and illustrations. Guest Editors Paul Havinga Department of Computer Science University of Twente, the Netherlands havinga@cs.utwente.nl Jennifer C. Hou Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign jhou@cs.uiuc.edu Mani Srivastava Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California at Los Angeles mbs@ee.ucla.edu Feng Zhao Embedded Collaborative Computing Palo Alto Research Center zhao@parc.com

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Call for Papers
 Special Issue on "Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Systems"
 IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

 Theme

 Driven by advances in MEMS micro-sensors, wireless networking, and
 embedded processing, ad-hoc networks of sensors are becoming increasingly
 available for commercial and military applications such as environmental
 monitoring (e.g., traffic, habitat, security), industrial sensing and
 diagnostics (e.g., factory, appliances), monitoring critical
 infrastructures (e.g., power grids, water distribution, waste disposal),
 and collecting data for battlefield awareness.

 Information processing in sensor networks is an interdisciplinary research
 area, which spans the areas of signal processing/detection/estimation,
 networking and protocols, embedded systems, data bases and information
 management, as well as distributed algorithms. It opens up new research
 venues, which include sensor tasking and control, tracking and
 localization, probabilistic reasoning, sensor data fusion, distributed
 data bases, communication protocols and theory that address network
 coverage, connectivity, and capacity, as well as system/software
 architecture and design methodologies. Moreover, all these issues have to
 consider many cross-cutting requirements such as efficiency/cost tradeoff,
 robustness, self-organization, fault-tolerance, timeliness, scalability,
 and network longevity.

 Topics of Interest

 This special issue calls for articles that highlight technical issues from
 physical device design, signal processing, network protocols/algorithms,
 to revolutionary new applications enabled by sensor network technology.
 In particular, we are seeking contributions in all aspects of sensor
 networks.  Of particular interests are

 (i) Articles that summarize the fundamental performance and behavior
 limits of sensor networks with respect to sensor network capacity,
 coverage, connectivity, and/or lifetime.  As wireless sensor networks must
 operate under extreme resource constraints, an understanding of the
 fundamental performance limits of such networks will provide valuable
 insights into what designs make sense and can help identify areas in which
 theory promises performance much better than that attained by existing
 designs.

 (ii) Articles that outline algorithms which realize certain sensor network
 operation, such as localization, time synchronization and target tracking,
 and their theoretical base.  Articles of this type should focus on
 comparing alternative algorithms/approaches with respect to the various
 sensor network requirements outlined above.

 (iii) Articles that deal with system implementations, experiments, and
 experiences in application domains.  At an early stage of sensor network
 development, one can analyze and predict network behavior through
 simulation and theoretical reasoning.  However, a true evaluation of
 system performance can only be obtained through implementation and direct
 measurement and experimentation of the prototype.  Hence articles that
 report the system implementation issues with an emphasis on the
 cross-layer design tradeoffs will shed lights on how effective the overall
 system design is.


 Example topical areas of interests include, but not limited to

 * Coding and information theory
 * Detection, classification, and estimation
 * Distributed networked sensing and control
 * Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion
 * Data-centric routing and attribute based addressing
 * Energy efficient medium access control and resource management
 * Localization, tracking and time synchronization
 * Network coverage, connectivity, and longevity
 * Query processing and optimization
 * Security
 * Simulation environments and systems prototyping
 * Sensor network applications and services

 Publication Schedule

 Manuscript due: January 1st
 Acceptance notification: March 1st
 Final manuscript due: May 1st
 Expected publication date: August

 Submission Instruction

 All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Wireless Communications
 Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at
 http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html. Electronic submissions
 are accepted only in Postscript and PDF formats and should be sent to
 havinga@cs.utwente.nl or jhou@cs.uiuc.edu directly. If you have any questions,
 please contact any one of the guest editors.

 Submissions must meet the following criteria:

  -  A paper must be material that has not been previously published
     nor is currently under review by another conference or journal.
  -  Each submitted paper should be no longer than the equivalent of
     15 double space pages excluding figures, graphs, and illustrations.


 Guest Editors

 Paul Havinga
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Twente, the Netherlands
 havinga@cs.utwente.nl

 Jennifer C. Hou
 Department of Computer Science
 University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
 jhou@cs.uiuc.edu

 Mani Srivastava
 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
 University of California at Los Angeles
 mbs@ee.ucla.edu

 Feng Zhao
 Embedded Collaborative Computing
 Palo Alto Research Center
 zhao@parc.com