WSN for Tracking and Localization
A special issue of Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (ISSN 2224-2708).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2016) | Viewed by 15006
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wireless sensor networks; parallel and distributed computing
Interests: artificial intelligence; wireless sensor networks; mobile computing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been growing tremendously in recent years. Target tracking and localization with WSNs has been a topic of interest in many applications. Target tracking through WSNs has a large spectrum of applications, such as surveillance, robot navigation, natural disaster relief, traffic monitoring, and pursuit evasion games. Localization has a wide variety of applications, such as inventory management, intrusion detection, road traffic monitoring, health monitoring, and reconnaissance.
Localization aims to determine the position of an object in space, and tracking seeks to identify the position of an object over time. Many algorithms and systems have been proposed and developed for tracking and localization with WSNs. There are still challenges to solving the complex tracking and location problems, exhibiting varying characteristics of the target to be tracked and localized, the environment where the target is tracked and localized, and the availability of sensor network technology.
This Special Issue solicits high-quality papers on recent advances in wireless sensor networks for tracking and localization.
Topics of Interest
This Special Issue covers topics including, but not limited to:
- Single target tracking
- Multiple target tracking
- Continuous target tracking
- Prediction based target tracking
- Range free localization
- Range based localization
- Collaborative localization and mapping
- Ad hoc or opportunistic localization and mapping
- Relay network localization
- Multi-static sonar localization and tracking
- Energy-efficient localization and tracking
- Novel applications of localization and tracking
- Survey of localization and tracking technologies
Dr. Hongchi Shi
Dr. Yi Shang
Dr. Xiao Chen
Guest Editor
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