Cellular/Mobile/Wireless Communications for Sensor Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Sensors have been around us, playing a key role in our lives. Biologically, we are gifted with five senses. These senses, along with our ability to communicate, make us human. Machines with built-in sensors are also commonplace. Taking these sensors, improving them, and making them grow in their varied applications is where we are in our endeavors and research on ‘sensor networks and actuators’. Such sensors are diverse in their functionality, characteristics, and applications. Connectivity is a key aspect of sensor networks be it inter-sensor, intra-sensor, or sensor to man/machine communications; and the applications that get enabled as a consequence. Energy considerations are paramount as the need to do more with less outstrips the supply of energy in almost all instances.

This Special Issue is an attempt to bring researchers across multiple domains together and build a source of information that will provide insights into the exciting world of sensors and their applications. This world, that awaits us, is rich in sensors on one hand and the services that they provide on the other. In many instances, these sensors may have human-like behavior. They may even be treated as an extension of human body and mind. Perhaps, communication-enabled sensors and systems along with ever-increasing computational capabilities will lead us to an environment where data is collected and analyzed with equal ease for most applications, howsoever demanding they may be.    

We invite authors to submit research papers and articles containing original and previously unpublished research results. Review articles on current state-of-the-art sensor networks and those of the future are also welcome. Though we have listed the topics of interest via certain keywords in the following, we urge the researchers and potential authors to interpret the topics in the broadest way possible. Sensors are all around us and so is the Internet. Blending them together opens an unbounded world of opportunity. We are also hoping to have research articles that are unbounded in imagination, though they may still be bounded by bandwidth, energy, time, and other resources and constraints.

Assoc. Prof. Hari Krishna Garg
Assoc. Prof. Chen-Khong Tham
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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• Smart living
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Cyber-physical systems
• Social networking
• Connected mobility and transportation systems
• Energy efficient communication protocols for sensor networks
• Energy harvesting
• Reliability, QoS and performance
• Security and privacy
• Intelligent sensor systems
• Fusion, decisions and communications
• Communications in unfriendly (heat, humidity, vibration, dust) environments
• Self-configurable communication systems and architectures
• Localization and location tracking
• Data analytics
• Hardware and software for sensor networks
• Communication technologies and systems for sensor networks of the future
• High/low speed sensor networks and applications
• Case studies and innovations
• Ad hoc sensor networks
• Bandwidth and resource-constrained communications