3D Wireless Sensor Network
A special issue of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (ISSN 2224-2708).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2015)
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A wireless sensor network (WSN) is built upon a large number of low cost sensor nodes. While a two-dimensional (2D) planar setting is assumed in most early studies for WSNs, there have been increasing interests in deploying wireless sensors on three-dimensional (3D) surfaces for applications such as seismic monitoring on ocean floors or in mountainous regions, and in 3D volume for applications such as underwater reconnaissance and atmospheric monitoring. In general, a WSN is deemed a 3D network if the maximum difference between sensors’ heights are greater than their radio transmission range. Several exploratory test beds of 3D WSNs have been developed recently in space and underwater. We foresee that large-scale deployment of 3D WSNs will be demanded in the near future, although surprising challenges are observed in efforts to extend many 2D network techniques to 3D space.
For this Special Issue, we are interested in papers that emphasize the potential challenges and intend to understand, analyze, design, implement, evaluate, and prototype protocols for WSNs deployed in 3D.
Dr. Miao Jin
Guest Editor
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