Emerging Theory and Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks and Edge Computing

Dear Colleagues,

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained great popularity for offering lightweight solutions to Internet of things (IoT) applications such as agriculture, industry, healthcare monitoring, surveillance, traffic control, etc., proliferating the real-time big data exploration. Through interaction between the physical world, various sensors and actuators, WSNs permit the closed cycle of data collection, aggregation, processing, and control, which thereby ensures low-cost automatic operation and long-term reliability. Recently, high-precision, low-cost CPU and semiconductor design has enabled “sensor” as smarter nodes, where many advanced operations such as recognition, multi-modal sensing, processing and even matrix computational abilities are capable on-site, boosting the future extreme sensible word in 6G. However, the implementation of WSNs in practical scenarios is challenging due to the contradiction of continuous sensing and gathering and the limited resources of SNs, such as computing power, energy, and throughput, which may result in latency, data inconsistency and redundancy, high computation overhead, and energy consumption. Edge computing is a potential solution to satisfy computing-intensive and latency-critical applications with resource-limited SNs by performing data processing on computing nodes closer to the data source. When WSNs meet edge computing, due to (1) geographical dispersion, (2) ad hoc deployment and (3) rudimentary support systems compared to cloud data centers, energy efficiency, reliability, optimized resource management, reasonable task scheduling, etc. are critical issues.

This Special Issue, "Emerging Theory and Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks and Edge Computing", is particularly interested in finding, defining, quantifying and solving the new issues, theory and applications that come out from the combination of WSNs and edge computing, including new edge–WSN frameworks, system deployments, task offloading, trust mechanisms, resource sharing, performance modeling, prototypes, system experiences, edge–WSN applications, use cases in IoT/blockchain/digital twins, etc.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Wireless sensor networks;
• IoT sensing systems;
• Edge computing and edge intelligence;
• Novel edge computing paradigms for WSNs;
• Edge-assisted mobile and sensing systems;
• System architecture for edge–WSNs;
• Wireless target sensing;
• Edge offloading in WSNs;
• Energy-efficient edge–WSNs;
• Reliable and sustainable edge provisioning for WSNs;
• Optimized data collection in edge–WSNs;
• Trust mechanism in edge–WSNs;
• Machine learning in edge–WSNs;
• Performance modeling of edge–WSN systems;
• 5G/6G edge computing frameworks/systems/prototypes;
• Edge–WSNs use cases and application systems;
• Smart healthcare;
• Smart buildings/cities;
• Edge-blockchain/digital twins.

Prof. Dr. Yinglei Teng
Prof. Dr. Xianbin Wang
Dr. Qinqin Tang
Guest Editors

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