Call for Papers IEEE NETWORK special issue on Networked Sensing Systems for a Sustainable Society 

Call for Papers 

Networking can help provide a more sustainable society by providing previously unavailable solutions, allowing data from new and heterogeneous sources to be collected in novel ways and from novel sources through novel technologies. At the same time, the networking-based solution itself must be sustainable or green, for example, reducing unnecessary energy expenditure by redesigning the network architecture by de-locating network equipment towards strategic places.  

With the "Networked sensing systems for a sustainable society" special issue, we aim to present and showcase the latest advances in sustainable networked sensing systems in a wide range of contexts with the shared scope to improve people's quality of life and reduce climate change. The goal of the special issue is to publish original research and review articles which should be comprehensive to all readers of the magazine, regardless of their specialty, addressing the key issues and challenges of this area.   

Topics include, but are not limited to:  
• Analysis, simulation, testbed, and measurement campaigns of networked sensing systems 
• Converged communication, computing, and storage in sustainable networked sensing system 
• Crowd-sensing, human-centric sensing, citizen science-based solutions 
• Efficient resource allocation for networked sensing systems 
• Energy efficiency, energy harvesting, and green operation for networking in sensing system 
• Fog/edge computing and caching techniques for networked sensing system  
• In situ techniques in environmental monitoring 
• Lightweight network security design for networked sensing systems 
• Low cost or energy harvesting wireless communication and system design  
• Networked sensing systems for sustainable Industry 4.0 
• Networking for smart and cooperative devices, environments, middleware, platforms, and tools 
• Rural area sensing and connectivity solutions  
• Smart sensory augmentation and smart spaces  
• Sustainable networked sensing systems for digital twins 
• Ultra-low-power IoT network technologies and embedded systems architectures 
• Urban environmental sensing and monitoring 
• Virtualization for networked sensing system 

Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the “Information for Author'' section of the Paper Submission Guidelines [https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-network/paper-submission-guidelines].
All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by the deadline through Manuscript Central [https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/network-ieee]. Select “March 2023/Networked Sensing Systems'' from the drop-down menu of topic titles.

Important Dates
* Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 September 2022
* Initial Decision Notification: 15 November 2022
* Revised Manuscript Due: 15 December 2022
* Final Decision: 30 December 2022
* Final Manuscript Due: 15 January 2023
* Publication Date: March/April 2023

Guest Editors 
• Prof. Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain 
• Prof. Catia Prandi, University of Bologna, Italy 
• Dr. Nathalie Mitton, National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria), France  
• Dr. Marco Zennaro, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy  
• Prof. Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan 
• Prof. Timothy X Brown, Carnegie Mellon University, USA/Rwanda 
• Dr. Prof. Simon See, INVIDIA, Singapore 
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