*CFP** of Special Issue in Elsevier Computer Networks*



*Green Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks*




The past decades have witnessed the advancement of Wireless Sensor Networks
(WSNs) in both academic and industrial communities. In a WSN, a large
number of sensor nodes are deployed and networked to monitor or survey
targeted area, such that the interested data can be sensed, processed,
stored and collected. Through WSNs, we are able to bridge the physical word
and the cyber space, which composes the foundation for developing new smart
applications. Many potential applications of WSNs have been exploited in
the fields of environmental engineering, healthcare, industry, military
applications, smart home, and green buildings etc.



To enable the pervasive deployment of WSNs, the biggest stumbling block is
the contradiction between the various functionalities demanded by
applications and the limited energy supply for sensor nodes. Such a
situation is getting worse, especially considering the increasing network
scale. Therefore, in this special issue, we look at WSNs, mainly from the
perspective of green computing. On one hand, we expect to design
energy-saving (or –free) protocols cross different system layers, to
prolong the network lifetime as far as possible. Specifically, to practice
WSNs in real applications, we are supposed to achieve a tradeoff between
system performance and energy efficiency, through adapting
sensing/networking functionalities to energy budget. On the other hand, we
can resort to seeking new techniques to sustainably supply energy to sensor
nodes. For example, sensor nodes equipped with certain mechanisms can
harvest energy from surrounding circumstance, or we can rely on dedicated
devices to periodically charge the sensor nodes (if they are
re-chargeable). The above threads (or the joint optimizations cross them)
are of great significance to improve the sustainability and performance of
WSNs. Therefore, it is highly worthy to extensively investigate how we run
a WSN in a green fashion.



Topics of primary interest are centered around green computing in WSNs,
including but not being limited to:

l  Energy harvesting/charging and power management

l  Long-life sensor node deployment and topology control

l  Energy-efficient communication protocol design

l  Scheduling algorithms for sensor networks

l  Energy-efficient (or –free) sensing techniques

l  New applications of self-sustainable sensor networks

l  Data routing, processing and storage strategies

l  Network modelling and performance analysis



*Schedule*



Manuscript Due: August 15th, 2017

First Notification: October 31st, 2017

Revised version: December 15th, 2017

Final notification: January 15th, 2018

Publication Date: The 2nd quarter of 2018 (tentative)





*Guest Editor*



*Feng Li* (Corresponding Editor)

School of Computer Science and Technology

Shandong University

Jinan, Shandong, China 250101

Email: fli@sdu.edu.cn



*Shibo He*

School of Computer Science and Engineering

Zhejiang University,

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China 310027

Email: s18he@zju.edu.cn



*Jun Luo*

School of Computer Science and Engineering

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore 639798

Email: junluo@ntu.edu.sg



*Gurusamy Mohan*

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

National University of Singapore

Singapore 117576

Email: elegm@nus.edu.sg



*Junshan Zhang*

School of Electrical, Computer and Engineering

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ 85287-7206

Email: junshan.zhang@asu.edu


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