Routing in Aerial, Underground, and Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Thanks to both the remarkable benefits that the usage of their sensor nodes offers and the continuously growing range of their applications, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are generally recognized as one of the most important scientific domains. Routing, that is, the steering of sensed data from their sources to their destinations, is certainly one of the primary processes for the operation of WSNs. On the other hand, routing is not only subject to various performance criteria, but also obstructed due to both the limited resources of the sensor nodes and the inherent restrictions of wireless communications. This is why numerous research efforts are continuously being developed in order to cope with problems of this kind. Traditionally, most of these research works refer to terrestrial WSNs.

Recent technological advances have aided the development of sensors that are able to monitor ambient conditions in non-terrestrial environments. Consequently, the challenge to develop WSNs capable of supporting human activities in underground, underwater, and aerial fields of interest has been triggered. However, the soil, aquatic, and aerial media are associated with additional restrictions and issues, which the methodologies proposed for terrestrial routing in WSNs are inadequate to fully cope with. Consequently, new research is needed.

This Special Issue aims to accommodate articles related to the state-of-the-art, standards, experimentations, implementations, applications, new research proposals, and industrial case studies of routing algorithms and protocols for underground, underwater, and aerial WSNs. Invited papers have to be original and neither published nor under review in any other conference or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Wireless sensor networks
• Aerial wireless sensor networks
• Underground wireless sensor networks
• Underwater wireless sensor networks
• Energy efficient routing
• Data aggregation routing
• Query based routing
• Coherent /Non-Coherent routing
• Negotiation based routing
• Proactive routing
• Reactive routing
• Artificial Intelligence based routing
• Hierarchy based routing
• Zone based routing
• Location based routing
• Routing with mobile agents
• Multipath routing
• Query based routing
• Secure routing
• Multi-objective optimization routing

Prof. Dr. Dionisis Kandris
Prof. Dr. Sotiris Nikoletseas
Guest Editors

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