Symmetry and Asymmetry in Wireless Sensor Networks
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 95
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wireless communications; wireless sensing theory; array signal processing; intelligent networked sensing and control; multi-dimensional pattern recognition; AI for intelligent transportation
Interests: array signal processing; phase unwrapping; wireless communication coding; wireless sensor networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, with the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, and 5G/6G, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are evolving from the traditional ‘data collecting–wireless transmitting’ to ‘intelligent sensing–autonomous decision-making’. They play a crucial role in smart cities, the industrial internet, medicine and health, energy and electricity, intelligent transportation, etc. However, an improvement in their functional level will inevitably aggravate the consumption of the limited underlying resources, as well as bringing about more serious imbalances between different types of functions or performance indicators, e.g., the resource allocation of communication and perception in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), the joint optimization of limited energy and wide-area coverage, the computing balance between massive data processing and real-time operation, the compatibility of cross-platform collaboration and protocol fragmentation, and the compromise of the time and space complexity of system parameter identification. At present, these thorny problems are being investigated by many scholars in various fields, and some promising solutions have been proposed, which have greatly improved the depth and breadth of the theory of intelligent WSNs.
In these studies, relevant theories and methods have always depended on symmetry, which is an intrinsic property of the WSNs. Symmetry helps to promote system architecture, algorithm design, and performance optimization. Symmetrical structure improves the connectivity and fault tolerance of WSNs, reduces the energy consumption of the routing protocol, and even enhances the security of the entire network.
We invite scholars, innovators, and designers to contribute original research work, insightful cases, and valuable ideas. Your contributions will help reshape the future landscape of WSNs from theory to technology. We welcome a variety of diverse and differentiated perspectives and discussions to be submitted to this Special Issue.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Symmetry/asymmetry protocol design in WSNs;
- Symmetry/asymmetry resource allocation in WSNs;
- Symmetry/asymmetry ISAC in WSNs;
- Symmetry/asymmetry sensing for connected and autonomous vehicles/drones;
- Symmetrical/asymmetrical sensor deployment for target detection and tracking;
- Symmetry/asymmetry mechanism for phase unwrapping and its applications;
- Symmetry/asymmetry methods for non-line-of-sight imaging in WSNs;
- Symmetry/asymmetry reconfigurable intelligent surface-aided sensing in WSNs;
- Symmetry/asymmetry privacy and security in WSNs;
- Symmetry/asymmetry computing in AI-strengthened WSNs.
Dr. Bobin Yao
Dr. Xiaoping Li
Dr. Bin Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wireless sensor networks
- multiple input multiple output system
- antenna arrays
- integrated sensing and communication
- phase unwrapping
- target detection and tracking
- non-line-of-sight imaging
- privacy and security
- artificial intelligence
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