Dear Colleagues,

WSNs have revolutionized different areas of economy and daily life, being one of the enabling technologies of IoT (Internet of Things) and IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) systems. This has been the case in areas such as environmental monitoring, the development of smart buildings and smart cities, automation in Industry 4.0, agriculture, etc. In turn, this technology involves different fundamental fields for its development and application, such as signal processing, embedded systems, networking and protocols, information management, programmable control, energy optimization, and distributed algorithms.

However, the potential of this technology and its success make the requirements of new applications increasingly challenging. Improvements in bandwidth, latency, reliability, and security are essential to meet these new requirements.

This Special Issue calls for high-quality, original, up-to-date research papers related to wireless sensor and actuator networks. Papers describing scientific methods and technologies that improve efficiency, productivity, quality, scalability, mobility, reliability, control, and energy in all areas of WSNs and WSANs are welcome. Submissions of scientific results from experts in both academia and industry worldwide are strongly encouraged. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected based on both their quality and their relevance to this Special Issue. Contributions may include, but are not limited to:

• Modeling and analysis
• Routing
• Simulation
• Energy
• Applications and implementations
• Mobility
• Programmability
• Scheduling
• End-to-end control
• Time sensitive networking
• Testbed experimentation
• Industrial and social use cases
• Ultra-high reliability
• AI/ML-assisted algorithms for enhanced networking
• WSN bootstraping

Dr. Javier Silvestre-Blanes
Dr. Esteban Municio
Dr. Kunmean Hou
Guest Editors

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• wireless sensor networks
• wireless sensor/actuator networks
• Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and their evolution to IIoE (Industrial Internet of Everything)
• energy efficiency and transfer
• routing using machine learning (ML) techniques and protocols
• WSAN and edge computing
• device heterogeneity
• self-organizing WSANs (SOWSANs) and self-sustaining WSANs (SSWSANs)
• scalability to support a large number of spread devices
• WSN and big data analytics
• Internet of nano-Things