ISDSN 2012 - Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things

The next generation of Internet is foreseen to be the “Internet of Things (IoT)”, which means a world-wide network of interconnected objects and their virtual representations uniquely addressable based on standard communication protocols. Identified by a unique address, any object, including computers, mobile phones, RFID tagged devices, and especially Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), will be able to dynamically join the network, collaborate and cooperate efficiently to achieve different tasks. With all these objects in the world equipped with tiny identifying devices, daily life on Earth would undergo a big transformation.

Such a scenario will endow the WSN a new perspective. As WSNs can collect surrounding context and environment information, they will be the eyes, ears, nose and even skin of the IoT. In parallel, WSN will also get unprecedented strong support from IoT, such as AI and Cloud computation. Consequently, the integration of WSNs into Internet will give birth to a mighty IoT that can monitor and reach every corner of the world.

However, deploying WSNs configured to access to Internet is raising novel challenges in many aspects, such as basic silicon building blocks of IoT: nano-amp microcontrollers, wireless MCUs, low-power RF ICs, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), and CMOS-based sensing devices for detection of pressure, motion, temperature, humidity, and gases. Energy harvesting technologies is another big issue to provide a sustainable power source to those blocks.

The purpose of this special issue is to report on the recent and original advances on Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet that to be innovative to open the new era of the Internet of Things. Potential topic include, but are not limited to:

Sensor technology
Energy-harvesting technologies
Radio frequency identification
RFID and tagging technologies
NFC and security artificial intelligence
Wireless security technology
IoT network infrastructure
IoT protocols
IPv6 and wireless sensor networks
Applications of the IoT
IoT image processing
Text and graphics recognition
IP multimedia subsystem (IMS)
Linking ‘things’ to location and users
Location and tracking of objects
Home networking
E-health
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due Friday, 3 August 2012
First Round of Reviews Friday, 26 October 2012
Publication Date Friday, 21 December 2012