Call for Papers

Telecommunication Systems (Kluwer Academic Publishers)
Special Issue on "Wireless Sensor Networks"
Recent advances in digital electronics, embedded systems, and wireless communications have motivated a lot of research in the direction of distributed wireless sensor networks. Such networks may have a wide range of applications, including security and surveillance, control, actuation and maintenance of complex systems, and fine-grain monitoring of indoor and outdoor environments. Sensor networks differ from conventional network systems in many aspects. They usually involve a large number of spatially distributed, energy-constrained, self-configuring and self-aware nodes. The wireless sensor networks are bringing a lot of new challenges and design considerations, which go much beyond conventional network systems.
Topics

This special issue is intended to foster the dissemination of high quality research in topology control, communication protocols, data management and access techniques, and applications of wireless sensor networks.

Technical papers describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-art research work are solicited. Topics include, but not limited to:
 sensor network communication architectures
 self-configuring, self-healing schemes in sensor networks
 energy-saving and topology control
 mobility-tolerant communication protocols
 energy-efficient media access, error control, and traffic management
 collaborative information processing of sensor nodes
 transportation protocols
 data dissemination, data fusion, and information processing
 robust distributed algorithms for collaborative processing
 modeling, performance evaluation, and simulation tools
 distributed resource management
 systems, platforms, and tools
 target tracking and location-based services
 localization services
 time synchronization
 data-centric routing, attribute-based addressing, and location management
 collaboration and group management of sensor nodes
 distributed networked sensing and control
embedded architectures and tools
programming models and languages
query processing and optimization
 security
services and applications (e.g., automotive, battlefield, bio, construction, disaster recovery, environmental, medical, security)
Submission Guideline

Authors should follow the Telecommunication Systems manuscript format described at
http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/1018-4864.
Prospective authors should submit a PDF/PS version of complete manuscript to Guest Editor
Prof. Chen at yschen@cs.ccu.edu.tw.

Important Date
Manuscript Due April 30, 2003  
Acceptance Notification August 31, 2003
Final Manuscript Due Oct. 15, 2003  
Expected Publishing Date Beginning of 2004
Guest Editors
Prof. Yuh-Shyan Chen
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan
E-mail: yschen@cs.ccu.edu.tw
URL: http://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~yschen
Prof. Yu-Chee Tseng
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan
E-Mail: yctseng@csie.nctu.edu.tw
URL: http://www.csie.nctu.edu.tw/~yctseng/
Dr. Ying Zhang
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
CA, USA
E-mail: yzhang@parc.com
URL: http://www2.parc.com/spl/members/yzhang/
Dr. Feng Zhao
Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
CA, USA
E-Mail: zhao@parc.com
URL: http://www2.parc.com/spl/members/zhao/