IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL
Special Issue on *Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks*
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), in their various shapes and forms, have
greatly facilitated and enhanced the automated, remote, and intelligent
monitoring of a large variety of physical systems. These networks consist of
a large number of typically small devices, each incorporating sensing,
processing, and wireless communications capabilities. Their use has
penetrated a plethora of application domains from industrial and building
automation, to environmental, wildlife, and health monitoring.
The control and systems community has played an important role in the
maturing of WSNs addressing issues related to their fundamental limits and
designing strategies to optimize and control their operation so as to
improve performance. Performance encompasses a variety of metrics that may
vary with the application but in all cases includes the network's energy use
which determines its usable lifetime. As WSN nodes are powered by small
batteries, energy conservation has become a very important concern. Equally
importantly, the existence of WSNs has provided a major application context
to theoretical contributions of the control community including cooperative
and distributed control, event-based monitoring, discrete-event systems, and
consensus algorithms.
What is emerging as the next step in the WSN evolution is their use not only
in monitoring but also in controlling a physical system. To that end, some
of the WSN nodes have to be augmented by integrating actuators. Actuators
can be simple devices programmed to take immediate, one-shot, action in
response to sensory input, or they can be more sophisticated entities (like
robots) that interact with their environment in more complex ways. The
resulting augmented version of WSNs is commonly referred to as Wireless
Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs). WSANs are therefore heterogeneous
networks that comprise of networked sensor and actuator nodes that
communicate among each other using wireless links to perform distributed
sensing and actuation tasks.
WSANs can be used to close loops over the network in a variety of
applications, such as, environmental control, event detection and
suppression, home automation, manufacturing, microclimate control,
surveillance etc. The control community has recently made important
contributions in understanding control over communication channels but this
work has, for the most part, abstracted the communication medium. A new
challenge is to consider a WSAN as the communications channel over which we
seek to close control loops.
The topics relevant to this special issue include but are not limited to:
< Autonomous sensor networks < Co-design of communication protocols and
control strategies < Architectural, modeling and simulation of WSANs <
Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication <
Sensor-actuator and actuator-actuator coordination < Distributed control in
sensor-actuator networks < Biologically inspired communication in WSANs <
Applications and prototypes.
*Submission Details:*
All papers submitted to the special issue will be subject to peer review in
accordance with the established practices of the IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control. Papers that do not fall within the scope of the special
issue will be returned to the authors without review, to enable them to
submit them as regular papers through the normal channels.
Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts to the Corresponding Guest
Editor, Ivan Stojmenovic, through the Transactions submission site
http://css.paperplaza.net/journals/tac/scripts/login.pl (once you login,
click on "Submit a new paper to IEEE-TAC" and select the type of submission
to correspond to the special issue). The manuscript format should follow the
guidelines posted at the website: http://css.paperplaza.net/journals/tac/.
Hardcopy submissions will not be accepted.
*Important dates: *
Paper submission: DEADLINE: April 2, 2010;
Acceptance: October 2010;
Tentative Publication: July 2011.
*Guest Editors:
**Jiming Chen
*Department of Control Science and Engineering
Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
E-mail: jmchen@iipc.zju.edu.cn
*Karl H. Johansson
*ACCESS Linnaeus Center
School of Electrical Engineering
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Email: kallej@kth.se
<kallej@kth.se>*Stephan Olariu
*Department of Computer Science
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529-0162, U.S.A.
Email: olariu@cs.odu.edu
<olariu@cs.odu.edu>*Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis
*Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
and Division of Systems Engineering
Boston University, USA
Email: yannisp@bu.edu
<yannisp@bu.edu>*Ivan Stojmenovic
*School of Information Technology and Engineering
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada;
Email: ivan@site.uottawa.ca
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