CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue on 
"Energy Constraints and Lifetime Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks"

Wireless sensor networks have been undergoing a revolution that promises 
to have a significant impact throughout society, one that could quite possibly 
dwarf previous milestones in the information revolution. These networks consist 
of battery-powered nodes that are endowed with a multitude of sensing modalities.  
The demand for these networks is spurred by numerous applications that require 
in-situ, unattended, high-precision, real-time observation over a vast area. 
Such networks are more than simply the next step in the evolution of the personal 
computer or the Internet. Instead, wireless sensor networks operate under a set 
of unique constraints and requirements that demand more than merely incremental
improvements in, or modifications of, traditional technologies.  In particular, 
although there have been significant improvements in processor design and computing,
advances in battery technology still lag behind, making energy resource the 
ultimate bottleneck in wireless sensor networking.  

The purpose of this issue is to disseminate state-of-the-art approaches and 
novel techniques that will advance basic knowledge and understanding of wireless 
sensor networks.  We are particularly interested in soliciting papers that 
study fundamental performance limits and tradeoffs that are brought about by 
energy constraints and that are unique to the wireless sensor networks. 
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- New performance metrics and considerations due to energy constraints
- Network lifetime limits due to energy constraints
- Network lifetime-aware protocols and algorithms
- Infrastructure and topological considerations for performance enhancement, 
  e.g., relaying node/base station placement, impact of network geometry
- Performance enhancement with power control and directional antennas
- Network capacity limits due to energy constraints
- Energy provisioning considerations for network lifetime guarantee
- Energy consumption consideration for the design of control plane (e.g., 
  centralized or distributed implementations)
- Application of directional antennas in energy conservation

Publication Schedule:

- Manuscript Due: January 15, 2004
- Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2004
- Final Manuscript Due: June 1, 2004
- Publication Date: 3rd Quarter, 2004

Submission Guidelines:

Only original, unpublished research papers will be considered. Submission should 
be limited to 25 double space pages.  Prospective authors should submit, via email, 
their manuscript as a PDF file to EDAS at http://edas.info/ according to the 
publication schedule. 

Guest Editors:

Bo Li, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., bli@cs.ust.hk	
Thomas Hou, Virginia Tech, USA, thou@vt.edu
Jiangchuan Liu, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, csljc@ieee.org 
Gam D. Nguyen, Naval Research Lab, USA, nguyen@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Taieb Znati, Univ. of Pittsburgh & NSF, USA, znati@cs.pitt.edu