EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking


                          Wireless Sensor Networks

                              Call for Papers

         Recent advances in integrated circuit and digital wireless
   communication technologies have enabled the design of wireless sensor
        networks to facilitate the joint processing of spatially and
   temporally distributed information. Such networks greatly enhance our
    ability to understand and evaluate complex systems and environments.
      Using wireless connectivity for sensor networks offers increased
    flexibility in the deployment and reconfiguration of the network and
    reduces the infrastructure cost. These advantages will enable sensor
   networks to monitor complex environments for applications ranging from
    battlefield surveillance to environment monitoring and telemedicine
                                  control.

   Enormous challenges in the understanding of sensor networks presently
        impede deployment of many of the envisaged applications. In
        particular, for wireless sensor networks that employ in situ
   unattended sensors, physical constraints integrating power, bandwidth,
     and cost have presented significant challenges as well as research
    opportunities in the field. One of the major concerns is maintaining
    connectivity: the geographical disperseness of the sensor nodes and
       the ad hoc network structure, coupled with the above-mentioned
      resource constraints, make this a unique challenge. Maintaining
    efficient network operation is further exacerbated by the volume of
      data generated by the sensors, which is disproportionally large
   compared with the network capacity. This special issue is intended to
       provide a venue for the dissemination of high-quality research
    addressing these challenges for wireless sensor networks. We solicit
   original contributions that have direct connection to or impact on the
     communications and networking design of wireless sensor networks.

            Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
     * Integrated sensing, processing, communications, and networking;
     * Channel-aware and distributed sensing and processing;
     * Joint-source channel coding for wireless sensor networks;
     * Fundamental  performance limits and information-theoretic study of
       wireless sensor networks;
     * Fading and diversity in wireless sensor networks
     * Distributed data and sensor management
     * Network protocols for wireless sensor networks
     * Cross-layer design techniques
     * Energy management
     * Distributed self-organization
     * Support for quality of service (QoS) in wireless sensor networks

   Authors should follow the EURASIP JWCN manuscript format described at
    the journal site http://wcn.hindawi.com/. Prospective authors should
     submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
                EURASIP JWCN's manuscript tracking system at
   http://www.mstracking.com/wcn/, according to the following timetable.

                  Manuscript Due          December 1, 2004
                  Acceptance Notification May 1, 2005
                  Final Manuscript Due    June 15, 2005
                  Publication Date        4th Quarter, 2005

                               Guest Editors:

   Biao Chen, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
                Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA

    Wendi Heinzelman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
             University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA

     Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan, 1301 Beal Ave, 4238 EECS, Ann
                         Arbor, MI 48109-2122, USA

    Andrew T. Campbell, Department of Electrical Engineering and Center
    for Telecommunications Research, Columbia University, 1312 Seeley W.
                       Mudd Bldg., NY 10027-6699, USA

                                Refereeing:

   If you are willing to referee paper(s) for this special issue, please
                            visit the following

   URL:http://www.mstracking.com/wcn/si/si.php?si=WSN. All referees shall
    receive a complimentary copy of the special issue upon publication.