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Exploring Electronics and Cooperation in Wireless Sensor Networks: IoT, Blockchain, and 5G Technologies

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2024 | Viewed by 1497

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Antonio J. Jara

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1. Institute of Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), 3960 Sierre, Switzerland
2. HOP Ubiquitous S.L. (Libelium Murcia), Ceutí 30562, Spain
Interests: Internet of Things; security; smart cities
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for our upcoming Special Issue on "Exploring Electronics and Cooperation in Wireless Sensor Networks: IoT, Blockchain, and 5G Technologies". This event aims to bring together researchers, engineers, industry experts, and academics to share their insights and cutting-edge research on the advancements in electronics and wireless sensor networks, with a particular focus on the integration of IoT, blockchain, and 5G technologies.

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to an unprecedented expansion of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The fusion of IoT with blockchain and 5G technologies has the potential to revolutionize WSNs by enabling secure, efficient, and high-speed communication between various devices, as well as improving data processing capabilities. This Special Issue seeks to explore how these disruptive technologies can work in synergy to overcome the challenges faced by WSNs and enhance their functionality.

We invite authors to submit original research papers, review articles, case studies, and technical reports covering a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

  • Electronics and hardware design for WSNs in the IoT era;
  • Blockchain technology and its applications in WSNs;
  • 5G networks and their impact on WSN performance and capabilities;
  • The integration of IoT, blockchain, and 5G technologies for enhanced WSN cooperation;
  • Energy-efficient communication protocols for IoT-enabled WSNs;
  • Security, privacy, and trust issues in IoT-based WSNs with blockchain and 5G integration;
  • Data management, analytics, and decision-making in IoT, blockchain, and 5G-enabled WSNs;
  • Interoperability and standardization in IoT, blockchain, and 5G-based WSNs;
  • Scalability and resource management in cooperative WSNs leveraging IoT, blockchain, and 5G technologies;
  • Real-world applications, case studies, and implementation challenges of IoT, blockchain, and 5G in WSNs

Dr. Antonio J. Jara
Guest Editor

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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. Electronics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • Internet of Things
  • WSNs
  • blockchain
  • 5G
  • electronics

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An Efficient SS-MAC Protocol for IEEE 802.15.4-Based WSNs of Cluster Tree Topology
by Suoping Li, Youyi Yuan and Guodong Pan
Electronics 2024, 13(13), 2520; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13132520 - 27 Jun 2024
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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard have important applications in many fields, such as the Internet of Things and smart cities because of their low energy consumption. Hybrid carrier sense multiple access/time division multiple access (CSMA/TDMA) is the key [...] Read more.
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard have important applications in many fields, such as the Internet of Things and smart cities because of their low energy consumption. Hybrid carrier sense multiple access/time division multiple access (CSMA/TDMA) is the key technique to reduce energy consumption in the standard, but it also increases packet delay and reduces network throughput. Although the cluster tree topology is a typical topology defined by the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, there are few efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols specifically for this type of topology. To this end, we present an improved hybrid CSMA/TDMA MAC protocol based on a sharable slot algorithm for WSNs with cluster tree topology, called sharable slot-based MAC (SS-MAC). By designing the operating mechanism and frame structure, improving the hybrid CSMA/TDMA and channel-hopping techniques of IEEE 802.15.4 MAC, and introducing a sharable slot algorithm to wake up tree nodes asynchronously as well as a short address strategy to identify member nodes, the proposed protocol improves packet delay and throughput under the premise of low collision and low node energy consumption. Moreover, we derive mathematical expressions of the parameters of the sharable slot algorithm and evaluate the energy consumption, throughput and packet delay of the SS-MAC based on the queue modeling of packet arrivals. Numerical simulations verify that the proposed MAC protocol outperforms the other three existing MAC protocols, namely, IEEE 802.15.4 MAC, SSMA and LELLMAC, in terms of energy consumption, throughput and packet delay. Full article
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Urban Delay-Tolerant Multicast Using Uncontrolled Mobile Relay
by Bartosz Musznicki and Piotr Zwierzykowski
Electronics 2024, 13(3), 510; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13030510 - 25 Jan 2024
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The development of network functionalities in the urban environment is accompanied by the emergence of new publicly available data sources. They are the basis of the introduced research architecture and environment which are used to investigate the new multicast algorithms proposed in this [...] Read more.
The development of network functionalities in the urban environment is accompanied by the emergence of new publicly available data sources. They are the basis of the introduced research architecture and environment which are used to investigate the new multicast algorithms proposed in this paper. These message-oriented algorithms are primarily intended to meet the needs of opportunistic routing in heterogeneous urban sensor networks. Although, due to their generalized and protocol-agnostic design, they can be of use in other network applications and research areas. Uncontrolled mobile relay devices are the key elements of the presented delay-tolerant multicast framework. Multicast structures are modeled in four Polish cities based on open data on the location of public transportation vehicles and elements of urban infrastructure. Over 16,000 graphs were built and analyzed. It has been shown that the use of uncontrolled mobile relay enables the construction of time-spanning time-changing multicast structures. Their features are determined by the topology of a given city area, the distribution of destination nodes, as well as the number and the routes of mobile relay nodes. The efficacy and efficiency of the algorithms depend on the radio range of the nodes, maximum time span of forwarded messages, and network structure knowledge availability. Full article
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