-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Sepcial issue on wireless sensor networks, IEEE Wireless Communications Magainze Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:35:36 -0600 (CST) From: Jennifer Hou jhou@cs.uiuc.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

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--------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Special Issue on "Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Systems" IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

Theme

Driven by advances in MEMS micro-sensors, wireless networking, and embedded processing, ad-hoc networks of sensors are becoming increasingly available for commercial and military applications such as environmental monitoring (e.g., traffic, habitat, security), industrial sensing and diagnostics (e.g., factory, appliances), monitoring critical infrastructures (e.g., power grids, water distribution, waste disposal), and collecting data for battlefield awareness.

Information processing in sensor networks is an interdisciplinary research area, which spans the areas of signal processing/detection/estimation, networking and protocols, embedded systems, data bases and information management, as well as distributed algorithms. It opens up new research venues, which include sensor tasking and control, tracking and localization, probabilistic reasoning, sensor data fusion, distributed data bases, communication protocols and theory that address network coverage, connectivity, and capacity, as well as system/software architecture and design methodologies. Moreover, all these issues have to consider many cross-cutting requirements such as efficiency/cost tradeoff, robustness, self-organization, fault-tolerance, timeliness, scalability, and network longevity.

Topics of Interest

This special issue calls for articles that highlight technical issues from physical device design, signal processing, network protocols/algorithms, to revolutionary new applications enabled by sensor network technology. In particular, we are seeking contributions in all aspects of sensor networks. Of particular interests are

(i) Articles that summarize the fundamental performance and behavior limits of sensor networks with respect to sensor network capacity, coverage, connectivity, and/or lifetime. As wireless sensor networks must operate under extreme resource constraints, an understanding of the fundamental performance limits of such networks will provide valuable insights into what designs make sense and can help identify areas in which theory promises performance much better than that attained by existing designs.

(ii) Articles that outline algorithms which realize certain sensor network operation, such as localization, time synchronization and target tracking, and their theoretical base. Articles of this type should focus on comparing alternative algorithms/approaches with respect to the various sensor network requirements outlined above.

(iii) Articles that deal with system implementations, experiments, and experiences in application domains. At an early stage of sensor network development, one can analyze and predict network behavior through simulation and theoretical reasoning. However, a true evaluation of system performance can only be obtained through implementation and direct measurement and experimentation of the prototype. Hence articles that report the system implementation issues with an emphasis on the cross-layer design tradeoffs will shed lights on how effective the overall system design is.

Example topical areas of interests include, but not limited to

* Coding and information theory * Detection, classification, and estimation * Distributed networked sensing and control * Data compression, association, aggregation and fusion * Data-centric routing and attribute based addressing * Energy efficient medium access control and resource management * Localization, tracking and time synchronization * Network coverage, connectivity, and longevity * Query processing and optimization * Security * Simulation environments and systems prototyping * Sensor network applications and services

Publication Schedule

Manuscript due: January 1st Acceptance notification: March 1st Final manuscript due: May 1st Expected publication date: August

Submission Instruction

All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html. Electronic submissions are accepted only in Postscript and PDF formats and should be sent to havinga@cs.utwente.nl or jhou@cs.uiuc.edu directly. If you have any questions, please contact any one of the guest editors.

Submissions must meet the following criteria:

- A paper must be material that has not been previously published nor is currently under review by another conference or journal. - Each submitted paper should be no longer than the equivalent of 15 double space pages excluding figures, graphs, and illustrations.

Guest Editors

Paul Havinga Department of Computer Science University of Twente, the Netherlands havinga@cs.utwente.nl

Jennifer C. Hou Department of Computer Science University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign jhou@cs.uiuc.edu

Mani Srivastava Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California at Los Angeles mbs@ee.ucla.edu

Feng Zhao Embedded Collaborative Computing Palo Alto Research Center zhao@parc.com

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