Special Issue 2011 - Telecommunication Systems Journal Special Issue on Mobile Sensor Networks

Special Issue on
“Recent Advance in Mobile Sensor Networks”

Scope

The continuous growing technique of sensor networks has enabled many new applications in which mobility of sensor nodes (controllable sensors and uncontrollable sensors) are explored, such as sea monitoring, animal migration and patrol defense. Unlike existing wireless sensor networks which are composed of static sensors and sink nodes, wireless mobile sensor networks allows diverse entities to move within the network field all the time, e.g., mobile base station, mobile sensor nodes, mobile relay nodes, mobile cluster heads. Enabling mobility in traditional static sensor networks makes a great impact on most existing research solutions and poses a large number of research challenging issues in both communication and data management aspects, e.g., challenges for localization in mobile sensor networks, challenges for providing coverage services by mobile sensor networks, and challenges for data collection in mobile sensor networks. On the other hand, these challenges in mobile sensor networks also provides lots of opportunities that researchers can leverage the mobility feature to exploring improvement for traditional solutions and methods in various aspects, e.g., node localization, network coverage, and data collection/streaming/management.

This special issue is seeking papers working on these challenges of the mobile ad hoc and sensor networks from the academia researchers and the industry practitioners, as well as papers that addressing various hot topics of the mobile sensor networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

? Data Aggregation and Data Dissemination in Mobile Sensor networks
? Query Processing and Data Management in Mobile Sensor networks
? Autonomic Computing with Mobile Sensor networks
? Topology Control and Coverage Management in Mobile Sensor networks
? Applications and Evolutions of Mobile Sensor networks
? Physical Layer Design of Mobile Sensor networks
? MAC Protocols for Mobile Sensor networks
? QoS Provisioning in Medium Access Control & Routing for Mobile Sensor networks
? Analytical, Mobility, and Validation Models for Mobile Sensor networks
? Performance Evaluation and Modeling of Mobile Sensor networks
? Integrated Simulation and Test bed for Mobile Sensor networks
? Measurement based Evaluation for Mobile Sensor networks
? Distributed Algorithms in Mobile Sensor networks
? Pricing Modeling and Solutions with Mobile Sensor networks
? Energy Saving and Power Control Protocols for Mobile Sensor networks
? Resource Management Algorithms in Mobile Sensor networks
? Synchronization and Scheduling Issues in Mobile Sensor networks
? Service Discovery for Mobile Sensor networks
? Cross-layer Design and Interactions in Mobile Sensor networks
? Mobile Service and QoS Management for Mobile Sensor networks
? Survivability and Reliability Evaluation and Modeling for Mobile Sensor networks
? Security, Trust and Privacy Issues in Mobile Sensor networks
Submission:

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 was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written). All papers are refereed through a double-blind review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page. (Link)

You may submit paper in PDF format within an email to: Dr. Lei Shu, E-mail: lei.shu at ieee.org.
Guest Editors:

Lei Shu (Corresponding Editor)
Nishio Lab., Department of Multimedia Engineering,
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
Osaka University, Japan
E-mail: lei.shu at ieee.org

Athanasios (Thanos) Vasilakos
University of Western Macedonia, Greece
E-mail: vasilako at ath.forthnet.gr

Jaime Lloret Mauri
Department of Communications,
Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
E-mail: jlloret at dcom.upv.es

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan
Computer Science and Engineering department,
BRAC University, Bangladesh
E-mail: sakib.pathan at gmail.com