Wireless Sensor Networks: Recent Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Topics
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 240
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wireless sensor networks; autonomous vehicle networks; cyber-physical systems; Internet of Things; applied cryptography; physical security; computational geometry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Sensors entitled “Wireless Sensor Networks: Recent Trends, Challenges, and Future Research Topics” will focus on the analysis, design, implementation, and deployment of wireless sensor networks. Its purpose is to provide researchers and practitioners with an assessment of this exciting technology, along with the challenges posed during the development of energy-efficient, reliable, and fault-tolerant sensing networks and systems for healthcare, agriculture, environmental, industry, and military fields. The biggest challenge in the design of wireless sensor networks is the inherent constraints imposed on the sensors' storage, processing, sensing, and communication capabilities, and particularly, their severely limited power supplies, which make them unreliable. In this regard, research papers should focus on the design and development of optimized algorithms and protocols for building energy-efficient sensing networks and systems, while considering various issues related to sensor location management, sensor deployment, time-varying network features, network scalability, network fault tolerance, sensor heterogeneity, autonomous and purposeful sensor mobility, and dimensionality (i.e., two-dimensional vs. three-dimensional sensor deployment). In addition, research papers should focus on wireless sensor networks. Specifically, research papers, reviews, or survey papers should focus on architecture and experimentation; deployment and coverage; task allocation and mission assignment; detection, localization, and tracking; data dissemination and fusion; topology control and routing; privacy and security; mission-critical applications and cyber-physical systems; Internet of Things; crowdsensing and smart cities; wearable computing; wireless charging and energy transfer; robotics; and autonomous (or driverless) vehicles. These topics span the lifecycle of wireless sensor networks from sensor deployment to data collection and analysis. This Special Issue will be a useful and valuable resource to researchers and practitioners who are interested in wireless sensor networks.
Prof. Dr. Habib Ammari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- architecture and experimentation
- deployment and coverage
- task allocation and mission assignment
- detection, localization, and tracking
- data dissemination and fusion
- topology control and routing
- privacy and security
- mission-critical applications and cyber-physical systems
- Internet of Things
- crowdsensing and smart cities
- wearable computing
- wireless charging and energy transfer
- robotics
- autonomous (or driverless/self-driving) vehicles
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: Security control of cyber-physical systems under cyber attacks A Survey
Authors: Jun Shen
Affiliation: Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
