IJAACS - WRSN 2014 - IJAACS 2014 Special Issue on Wireless Robot and Sensor Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, Solutions and Prospects

Int. J. of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
Special Issue on: "Wireless Robot and Sensor Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, Solutions and Prospects"
Guest Editors:
Dr. Muhammad Imran, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Younis, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Dr. Sajid Hussain, Fisk University, USA
Scope and Objective:
Wireless robot and sensor networks (WRSNs) have emerged as a confluence of disparate wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and multi-robot networked systems. The potential merits stemming from this mutual collaboration not only enhance and complement existing WSN applications but also introduce a plethora of novel applications that require autonomous and intelligent interaction.
WRSNs are expected to play crucial role in building future cyber-physical systems and promise unprecedented and limitless opportunities. However, such integration introduces various challenges such as collaboration and coordination, task allocation and fulfilment.
This special issue aims at presenting recent advances and hot issues in the design, implementation and evaluation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for existing and prospective applications of WRSN. Moreover, this special issue is expected to spark and promote further research in this multidimensional domain.
Original, unpublished research and survey/tutorial articles are solicited in all aspects of WRSNs and their variants. In particular, we welcome the submission of survey/tutorial articles.
Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Collaboration and coordination among robots
Mobile sensor networks/sensor and actor networks
Robot-powered wireless sensor networks
Topology management in WRSNs
Survivability strategies for WRSNs
Coverage and connectivity issues
Task allocation and fulfilment
Mobility management and control
Integration of WRSNs with other technologies
Self-organisation and self-managing operation of WRSNs
Specification, modelling, simulation and experimentation of WRSNs
Quality of service issues in WRSNs
Scalability issues in WRSNs
Applications and prototypes of WRSNs
Identification of open research issues and future prospects of WRSNs
Safety and security in WRSNs
M2M and IoT (Internet of Things) for WRSNs
Vehicular protocols for WRSNs
Notes for Prospective Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).
All papers are refereed through a peer review process.
All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.
Important Dates
Paper submission: 31 December, 2013
First round of reviews: 1 March, 2014