A special issue of International Journal of Sensor Networks
Recently, due to the limited natural resources, the concept “green” has been widely used in solutions to solve problems of global energy shortage, abnormal weather and environmental pollution. In the meantime, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have also been regarded as one of the feasible solutions to sense or monitor if our planet is back to “green” after certain green technologies have been employed. However, one of the prerequisites for WSNs to play this important role is that the WSN itself has to be green. Thus, novel technologies, architectures and applications are required to design a green WSN (GWSN).
In view of this, this special issue aims to foster start-of-the-art research and expects to bring those leading researchers and developers together to present novel technologies, architectures and applications to solve the various problems and challenges in designing a GWSN.
We encourage the submission of innovative and mature results in designing, analysing and developing technologies for GWSNs. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Power-efficiency and bandwidth efficiency
- Power harvesting
- Self-organisation and clustering algorithms
- PHY, MAC and routing issues
- Cross-layer design paradigm
- Topology control mechanisms
- Location management and mobility management
- Coverage optimisation, connectivity and transmission range assignment
- Security, fault-tolerant and reliability
- QoS design
- Near field communication (NFC) techniques
- Cooperation protocols and algorithms
- Implementation issues and applications
Manuscript due: 15 November, 2009
Acceptance/rejection notification: 15 February, 2010
Final manuscript due: 31 March, 2010