CALL FOR PAPERS [in PDF]
Journal of Communications (JCM, ISSN 1796-2021)
Recent Advance on Distributed Sensor Systems & Applications

Applications are always the original driving force for researches, particularly in the Wireless Sensor Networks
(WSNs) area, which is highly utility-oriented. WSNs have emerged as a new information paradigm for distributed
real-time and embedded systems, where the energy consumption and the data process and storage capacity of
the sensor nodes must be taken into account. Example applications include environment monitoring,
emergency response, critical infrastructure protection, medical care, intelligent transportation, and smart
manufacturing. However, finding killer applications for WSNs is still a hard task that is heavily pursued.

This special issue aims at presenting innovative and significant research on the design, implementation, usage,
and evaluation of wireless sensor systems, applications, and novel techniques, especially in a distributed
environment. We seek papers that take a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level
components. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    •        Sensor networks applications, architectures, protocols, Tools, systems, and algorithms
    •        Real testbed measurement and performance analysis
    •        Operating systems and middleware for sensor networks
    •        Distributed networked sensing, actuation and control
    •        Energy harvesting technologies on power and energy management
    •        Wide-area sensing services and support for social networking
    •        Localization and time synchronization and QoS provisioning protocols
    •        Security and privacy in sensor networks
    •        Multimedia transmission (high resolution video etc)
    •        Inter-connection between distributed sensor systems
    •        Systems for context sensing and context awareness
    •        User interfaces/ User friendliness and usability issues for backend monitoring
    •        Collaborative in-network processing and data sharing
    •        Sensor devices and sensor circuits for distributed systems


Submission Guideline

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers. Submissions should follow the author guidelines
of Journal of Communications and the complete instructions for prospective authors can be found at http://www.
academypublisher.com/jcm/forauthors.html. For further questions or inquiries, please contact Dr. Lei Shu, E-
mail: lei.shu@ieee.org.


Important Dates

    Paper submission deadline               August 15, 2010
    Acceptance notification                      November 30, 2010
    Final manuscript due                           January 1, 2010
    Tentative publication date                  1st Quarter, 2011


Guest Editors

    Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan
    Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
    Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan
    Der-Jiunn Deng, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
    Lei Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China