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
Dr. Utz Roedig
Infolab21, Lancaster University
http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~roedig/index.html
Dr. James Brusey
Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, UK
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