CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE COMPUTER SPECIAL ISSUE ON SENSOR NETWORKS
IEEE Computer seeks articles for a special issue on sensor networks, to
appear in August 2004 . Guest editors are David Culler from the University
of California, Berkeley, Mani Srivastava from the University of
California, Los Angeles, and Deborah Estrin from the University of
California, Los Angeles.
Distributed systems of embedded smart sensors and actuators promise
unprecedented capabilities for the instrumentation and monitoring of the
physical world including: temperature, vibration, air pressure, chemicals,
even voice and video data. Proponents envision a host of novel applications
for sensor networks, from earthquake structural failure analysis to
rainforest habitat research. The small and many characteristics of sensor
networks have fostered research in disciplines that have previously been
focused on computing and networking at a much larger scale. This interest
is driven by the vision that, like the Internet, large-scale distributed
networks of sensors will pervade the world but at a physical, rather than
virtual, level.
Computer 's special issue will focus on all aspects of the field: hardware,
architectures, wireless communication, networking, middleware, application
development, applications, and experience. There are opportunities for
short and long papers, providing a forum for reporting on both early and
mature research.
Topics of particular interest include sensor network architectures; sensor
node hardware; networking; low-power protocols and services; distributed
algorithms; data query, dissemination, routing, and fusion; novel
applications and services; application development tools; and deployment
experiences.
The deadline for papers is 16 February 2004. [Note: This new extended
deadline is a hard deadline for us to meet the publishing schedule]
Send inquiries to the guest editors at culler@eecs.berkeley.edu
,mbs@ee.ucla.edu, and destrin@cs.ucla.edu . Submission guidelines are
available at http://computer.org/computer/author.htm. Submit manuscripts
via Manuscript Central at http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/.
Please forward this CFP to those who may be interested.
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