Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks in the Internet of Things
A special issue of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (ISSN 2224-2708).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2015)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mobile computing systems and the mobile internet; MANETs and WSN; network protocols; operating systems; middleware
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One definition of the Internet of Things (IoT) is that it is a dynamic global network infrastructure with self-configuring capabilities, based on standard and interoperable communication protocols, where physical and virtual “things” have identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities and use intelligent interfaces, and are seamlessly integrated into the information network. This vision is the subject of many research efforts world-wide, and is seen as the next step beyond the Internet, with a range of different application domains, including but not limited to smart cities, the smart grid, smart healthcare, smart transportation, etc. Realizing this vision requires progress in a number of research domains, ranging from (Radio-Frequency IDentification) RFID and (wireless) sensor networks via distributed processing, cloud computing and content-based routing, to concepts of self-organizing networking, semantic technologies, and real-time big-data analytics.
For this Special Issue, we are interested in papers that emphasize the potential contributions and challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in realizing the IoT vision. We especially encourage research papers in the following areas:
- Experience with deploying WSN for one of the IoT application domains, case studies and testbeds
- Data management: real-time collection and analysis of sensor data
- Scalability of WSN to city scale and beyond
- Unique WSN challenges in the IoT
- Self-configuration/software-defined WSN
- Seamless integration of WSN into a global information network
- Network architecture, deployment/requirement, data storage, etc.
- Sensor networking protocols for IoT
- WSN security for IoT
- Energy management
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kunz
Prof. Dr. Marc St-Hilaire
Guest Editor
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