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           *          IEEE Network Special Issue on            *
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           *            Wireless Sensor Networking             *
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                   Extended deadline: September 15, 2005

             http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/special.html

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) recently received tremendous attention
from both academia and industry because of its promise of a wide range of
potential applications in both civil and military areas. A WSN consists of
a large number of small sensor nodes with sensing, data processing, and
communication capabilities, which are deployed in a region of interest and
collaborate to accomplish a common task, such as environmental monitoring,
military surveillance, and industry process control. Distinguished from
traditional wireless networks, WSNs are characterized of dense node
deployment, unreliable sensor node, frequent topology change, and severe
power, computation, and memory constraints. These unique characteristics
and constraints present many new challenges to the design and
implementation of WSNs, such as energy conservation, self-organization,
efficient data dissemination, and fault tolerance. For example, energy
efficiency is the key to prolonging the network lifetime and is thus of
primary importance in WSNs. It must be considered not only at the physical
layer but also at the link layer and the network layer in sensor network
design. Although many networking protocols and algorithms have been
developed for traditional wireless ad hoc networks, they cannot
effectively address the unique characteristics and constraints and
application requirements of sensor networks. To meet the new challenges,
innovative protocols and algorithms are needed to achieve energy
efficiency, flexible scalability and adaptability, and good network
performance. For example, it is highly desirable to develop new
energy-efficient protocols for topology discovery,
self-organization,medium access control, route discovery, and data
dissemination. An efficient query processing and data aggregation
algorithm can significantly reduce the number of transmissions of sensor
nodes and thus provide substantial energy savings and prolong the lifetime
of the network. In addition, open standards are important and imperative
to facilitate and improve the development of WSNs. To realize the vision
of WSNs, a large amount of research and development activities are going
on in recent years. The purpose of this special issue is to expose the
readership of IEEE Network to the latest research and development progress
in this hot and exciting area.

Scope of Contributions

This special issue aims to publish a collection of research and survey
articles that focus on the latest research and development results in all
networking aspects of WSNs. Original research and survey articles are
solicited from all researchers and practitioners. Articles should be
tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to the
readers outside the specialty of the article. As applicable to WSNs,
topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Network architectures and protocols
* Topology discovery and self-organization
* Energy-efficient medium access control (MAC)
* Energy-efficient routing and data dissemination
* Query processing and data aggregation
* Fault tolerance and self-healing
* Field trials and standardization activities

Manuscript Submission

Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF format via
email to one of the guest editors. With regard to both the content and
formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should
follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at
http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: September 15, 2005
Acceptance notification: January 1, 2006
Final manuscript due: March 1, 2006
Publication date: 2nd Quarter, 2006

Guest Editors

Dr. Jun Zheng
School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa
800 King Edward Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
Email: jzheng@ieee.org

Dr. Pascal Lorenz
University of Haute Alsace
IUT, 34 rue du Grillenbreit
Colmar, 68008, France
Email: lorenz@ieee.org

Dr. Petre Dini
Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134-1706, USA
Email: pdini@cisco.com