IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

   CALL FOR PAPERS ­ TMC SPECIAL ISSUE ON SENSOR NETWORKS

Special Issue Announcement

This Special Issue deals with recent advances in the study of Sensor
Networks as distributed dynamic systems of interacting autonomous mobile
sensor nodes. The objective is to achieve dependable mission performance
through dynamic collaboration of many inexpensive, low reliability sensors
with limited sensing, and communication ranges. Individual sensors must
interact locally with their physical environment and self-organize to
execute global objectives, like effective surveillance of enemy targets in a
battlefield. Recent advances in modeling the nonlinear system dynamics of
distributed multitime scale processes enable individual sensors to
collaborate to respond to global changes. Unlike most ad hoc wireless
networks that must adapt to mobility needs of their users, mission oriented
sensor networks incorporate purposeful mobility that must be traded off
against mission goals. The severe power and processing constraints call for
energy-aware task execution and mobility in pragmatic applications.
Continuous self-organization of distributed sensors may be needed for area
coverage. Emergent behaviors and phase transitions need to be predicted and
controlled. Adaptation to environmental and operational disturbances
requires resource bounded optimal response. Collaborative intelligent
inferencing is necessary to circumvent limitations of sensor data,
communications, and equipment faults. Research papers that address
mechanisms for situation awareness, deliberation, and coordinated adaptation
in mission oriented mobile sensor networks are of interest.

Topics 
Topics include but are not limited to the following:
           · Hybrid Control of Mobile Sensor Networks 
           · Self-healing and dependable sensor nets
           · Dynamic Space-time Clustering
           · Emergent Sensor Network Behaviors and Phase Transitions
           · Network Reconfiguration Architectures and Protocols 
           · Purposeful Mobility Algorithms
           · Energy Aware Task and Resource Allocation
           · Self-organizing sensor arrays: engineered biological behaviors
           · Security, privacy, and authentication
           · Signal separation and interference rejection
           · Collaborative signal processing
           · Mobile Sensor Network Applications and Quantitative Results
           · Optimal sensor placement
Deadlines

Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at
http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. As an author, you are responsible for
understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them
by going to http://www.computer.org/mc/tmc/author.htm.

Please feel free to contact the Peer Review Supervisor, Suzanne Werner at <swerner@computer.org> if you have any
questions.

              Last date for submission:            15 March 2004
              First Round Reviews:                 1 May 2004
              Revised Paper Due:                   20 May 2004
              Notification of Acceptance:          25 May 2004
              Final Paper Submission:              1 June 2004
              Publication targeted for:            3Q 2004


Guest Editor:
Shashi Phoha, Penn State University
sxp26@psu.edu