-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: CFP MST Journal Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks Datum: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:15:52 +0100 Von: Adam Dunkels adam@sics.se An: wolf@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

Call for papers

Measurement Science and Technology Journal (Institute of Physics)

Special Issue on

Wireless Sensor Networks: Designing for Real-World Deployment and Deployment Experiences

A vast number of protocols, architectures and design methods for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been proposed within the last decade. Analytical methods, simulation tools and laboratory experimentation were used to validate the proposals and demonstrate that the solutions put forth should work as expected. However, many such solutions failed (and sometimes quite dramatically) when deployed in a real-world application context. This is often the consequence of making ill-informed assumptions about the environment in which the WSN will be deployed, lack of attention to specific conditions that will be encountered in the deployment and incomplete application specification. In addition, good solutions for many important real-world deployment problems are missing. For example, mechanisms for dealing with missing data, in-network debugging tools or fault management strategies for real deployments are required.

This special issue has several aims:

* to collect insights from real-world deployment efforts that can help the WSN community to better understand the issues needed to be accounted for when designing WSN protocols, architectures and algorithms;

* to document particular real-world deployment issues encountered by practical scientists and highlight more generic WSN solutions and tools born from practical, deployment experience;

* to report on WSN protocols and mechanisms that have had, in the past, only a theoretical treatment but have recently been proven to work well in real-world deployments.

We are seeking contributions describing innovative work in the realm of real-world WSN deployments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Issues with deployment assumptions: setting realistic application requirements; user interaction with the WSN design process and with the end systems; the use of communication channel and sensor and sensing models; experiences with communication protocols, energy management and expected network lifetime; in-network processing; real-time issues in deployed systems; effective information extraction strategies.

* Supporting tools and methods for real-world deployment: deployment and debugging tools; on-the fly programming, configuration and installation support; management of deployed sensor networks; security, availability and dependability issues in sensor networks; fault-tolerance and troubleshooting sensor networks; network health monitoring and management; practical medium access control protocols; topology control and routing protocols in real-world deployments; practical localization and time synchronization.

* Novel real-life WSN applications: deployment success stories leading to technology adoption; failure stories leading to iterative hw/sw developments and re-deployment; novel measurement instruments based on WSNs.

Notes for Prospective Authors: The scope of this call is restricted to work that falls within the remit of the MST Journal. Articles should bring forth new WSN based measurement techniques and systems, significant improvements to existing measurement techniques or describe the application of existing techniques in novel situations.

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Expanded, archival versions of papers delivered at technical conferences are welcomed.

Important dates:

Extended abstract deadline: 15th March 2010 (by email to e.gaura@coventry.ac.uk)

Manuscript submission deadline: 31st March 2010

Expected Publication date: December 2010 (available on-line from November 2010)

Manuscript Submission Instructions for Prospective Authors:

Please follow the MST journal manuscript format described at http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=extra.2/MST and submit your papers to the online submission and reviewing system or by email, as per instructions at http://www.iop.org/EJ/submit/0957-0233 . In the "special issue details" box (or in the email subject line) write "Wireless Sensor Networks". Papers should be up to 10 journal pages in length, or 8500 words.

Guest editors:

Prof. Elena Gaura

Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, UK

www.cogentcomputing.org

e.gaura@coventry.ac.uk

Dr. Utz Roedig

Infolab21, Lancaster University

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~roedig/index.html

u.roedig@lancaster.ac.uk

Dr. James Brusey

Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, UK

www.cogentcomputing.org

j.brusey@coventry.ac.uk