Dear Colleagues,

With rapid advances in Future Internet technologies, such as the Internet of Things, the sensor cloud and the mobile Internet, the physical world is, on a daily basis, getting more connected and is moving faster towards the always-connected paradigm. Under this paradigm, cheap, wireless-connected and easily configurable sensors can sense and collect environmental data anytime and anywhere. Unfortunately, the high availability and cheapness of sensing technology can only soften the barriers for actually supporting the levels of scalability, reliability and resilience required for this paradigm to be global. Moreover, the dearth of accurate simulation models and efficient software methods specifically designed for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) leads to a lack of reliable algorithms, whose availability is essential to set up the future deployments in the best conditions. This includes, for instance, systematic considerations on the impact of channel interferences, nodes mobility and network dynamicity in general, which are crucial points not adequately addressed yet, hence weakening or preventing the proper operation of the resulting networks. Thus, to smash such barriers we still need efficient, fast and accurate algorithms, especially to manage communications and judiciously handle the tiny computational, memory and battery resources of the sensor nodes comprising the networks.

This Special Issue will provide a forum advancing the state-of-the-art concerning such algorithms for WSNs; discussions will concern the theoretical concepts, practical designs, and implementations used for running experiments, services and/or applications. Potential topics include (but are not limited to) algorithms for:

• wireless sensor nodes (re-)deployment
• area coverage in WSNs
• object detection/tracking in WSNs
• data collection/aggregation/dissemination in WSNs
• data compression and signal processing in WSNs
• efficient routing/medium access control protocols in WSNs
• real-world experiments/services/applications of WSNs
• reliable and accurate simulation models for WSNs
• accelerating simulations (distributed, parallelized, etc.)

Prof. Dr. Marc Sevaux
Dr. Massimo Vecchio
Dr. Ahcène Bounceur
Guest Editors

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• wireless sensor networks
• algorithms
• signal processing
• network protocols
• communication
• mobility
• simulation
• real-world applications and services