Wireless Sensors Networks in the IoT Era: Advanced Technologies, Recent Challenges, Smart Applications & Future Prospects

Dear Colleagues,

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted research and development interest in different fields, such as smart health, industry 4.0, smart cities, and environmental sciences. WSNs are one of the key enabling technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT). With the development of IoT, WSNs have drawn more attention in various up-to-date applications. Thus, WSNs need to be highly flexible, scalable, interoperable, and reliable. Despite significant developments and efforts in the fields of WSN and IoT technologies, challenges still remain, such as energy efficiency, data bandwidth demand, data processing, and self-organization. In recent years, significant contributions have revealed valuable possibilities for overcoming such challenges by reducing energy consumption, implementing energy harvesting, compressive sensing for data aggregation, and improving IoT scalability through cloud computing and artificial intelligence for fully automated IoT applications.     

The main focus of this Special Issue is to bring together researchers to share their high-quality research and outcomes in the context of the challenges, applications, architecture development, technologies, and opportunities for future work with relation of WSNs/IoT.

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

• WSNs/IoT architecture design;
• Wireless communication systems—5G Internet and mobile communication networks;
• Compressive sensing;
• Energy-efficient IoT-enabled WSNs architectures;
• Energy harvesting;
• Energy-aware, cluster-based routing protocols and localization;
• Fault-tolerance techniques in WSNs;
• Data analytics in WSNs and IoT;
• Artificial intelligence for WSNs/IoT;
• Cloud computing, fog computing, and edge computing for IoT and WSNs;
• Industrial Internet of Things;
• Wireless body area networks;
• Sensor systems for wearables and implants;
• Industry 4.0;
• Future prospects and developments.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Sabrine Kheriji
Prof. Dr. Olfa Kanoun
Prof. Dr. Faouzi Derbel
Guest Editors

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