-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Special Issue on Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Sensor Networks Datum: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:51:48 +0200 Von: DOHLER Mischa RD-TECH-GRE mischa.dohler@orange-ft.com An: tccc@cs.columbia.edu CC: Stavros Toumpis toumpis@ucy.ac.cy, "Prof. Lionel Ni" ni@cs.ust.hk

Dear colleagues,

You are kindly invited to submit papers according to below CFP for a special JWCN journal issue on sensor networks.

Kind regards, Mischa.

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Dr Mischa Dohler France Telecom R&D Senior Research Expert

Tel: +33 4 76 76 45 14 Fax: +33 4 76 76 44 50 Mob: +33 6 74 70 86 75 Eml: mischa.dohler@orange-ft.com Www: google "Mischa Dohler" ________________________________

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Special Issue on Novel Techniques for Analysis & Design of Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Sensor Networks

Sensor networks have been researched and deployed for decades; their wireless extension, however, has witnessed a tremendous upsurge in recent years. This is mainly attributed to the unprecedented operating conditions of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), i.e. - a potentially enormous amount of sensor nodes, - reliably operating under stringent energy constraints.

The virtually infinite degrees of freedom of wireless sensor networks have ignited intense research activities, which in turn led to thousands of publications, white papers and patents in less than a decade, with new contributions emerging on a daily basis. The rich mathematical and technical toolboxes already available from the design of wireless cellular and ad hoc systems clearly aided the birth of new ideas tailored to the problems in WSNs.

To date, the main problem in deploying WSNs is their dependence on limited battery power. A main design criterion is to extend the lifetime of the network without jeopardizing reliable and efficient communications from sensor nodes to other nodes or to data sinks. A prominent example of today's non-optimized WSN deployment experiences is that the start-up alone costs the network half its battery power.

Optimizing every facet of the communication protocols is therefore vital and imperative. Such stringent design requirements can be met by a plethora of approaches, e.g. optimizing each layer of the protocol stack separately (traditional) or jointly (cross-layer), for each node separately (traditional) or for an ensemble of nodes (distributed and cooperative), etc. This has led to copious novel distributed signal processing algorithms, energy-efficient medium access control and fault-tolerant routing protocols, self-organizing and self-healing sensor network mechanisms, etc.

In the light of the above, the main purpose of this special issue is twofold: - to obtain a coherent and concise technical synthesis from the abundance of recently emerged material in the area of WSNs, and - to promote novel approaches in analyzing, designing and optimizing large-scale WSNs, preferably inspired by approaches from other disciplines, such as physics or biology.

Very few papers are currently available which synthesize the large amount of fairly dispersed technical contributions; a coherent exposure, also touching upon open research issues, will certainly be appreciated by the academic and industrial research community. We believe that novel approaches, potentially inspired by entirely disjoint disciplines, may help considerably in dealing with networks of thousands of nodes.

Topics of interest in the area of energy-constraint WSNs include, but are not limited to: - network capacity w/out imperfections - joint source and channel coding - cooperative and distributed signal processing - data fusion and data aggregation - novel PHY, MAC and network paradigms - cross-layer and cross-functionality design - security, robustness, reliability - self-healing, self-stabilization, self-organization - applications, architectures and topologies - (macroscopic) information flows - physically and biologically inspired approaches

Submission details can be found under (copy entire link): http://www.hindawi.com/GetPage.aspx?journal=WCN&page=CLOWS.

Submission deadline: 1 October 2006 (negotiable by 2 weeks) Notification: 1 February 2007 Publication: 3rd Q 2007

Guest Editors Dr Mischa Dohler France Telecom R&D France mischa.dohler@orange-ft.com

Prof Taieb Znati University of Pittsburgh USA znati@cs.pitt.edu

Dr Stavros Toumpis University of Cyprus Cyprus toumpis@ucy.ac.cy

Prof Lionel M. Ni Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong, China ni@cs.ust.hk

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