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Call for papers - Dependable Wireless Sensor Networks
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Dependable Wireless Sensor Networks Guest Editors: Mohamed Eltoweissy and Mohamed Younis PUBLICATION: SUMMER 2005
SCOPE
The past few years have witnessed increased interest in the potential use of wireless sensor networks in applications such as smart environments, disaster management, habitat monitoring, combat field reconnaissance and security surveillance. Sensors in these applications are expected to be remotely deployed and to operate autonomously in unattended environments. While the initial view of the community was that sensor networks will play a complementary role that enhances the quality of these applications, recent research results have encouraged practitioners to envision an increased reliance on sensor networks. To realize their potential, dependable design and operation of sensor networks have to be ensured. Dependability is a property that indicates the ability of a system to deliver specified services to the user. Dependability can be specified in terms of attributes, which include reliability, availability, safety, maintainability and security. Dependability in wireless sensor networks is complicated by many factors including: (1) sensors are significantly constrained in the amount of available resources such as energy, storage and computation; (2) sensors are expected to be deployed in very large numbers in normal as well as forbidding environments; and (3) wireless sensor networks suffer from structural weakness and limited physical protection. Also, dependability requirements may vary according to a network’s mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such as field of deployment (e.g. hostile versus friendly), type of application (e.g. monitoring, tracking, data collection), mode of operation (e.g. normal, exception, post-event recovery), and time. This special issue of Computer Communications will report on recent research results on supporting dependability in wireless sensor networks. It is expected that non-conventional techniques more suited to wireless sensor networks may need to be employed. Also, in many cases trade-off would be necessary to ensure practicality by dynamically setting bounds on dependability. We solicit papers presenting original and unpublished work. Topics of interest include, although are not limited to, the following: • • • • • •
Fault-tolerant architectural and operation models • Robust routing of sensed data Predictable MAC medium access arbitration • Security architecture and protocols Quality of service provisioning • Metrics for measuring dependability Privacy-aware dependable operation • Novel applications of dependable sensor networks Specialized monitoring, evaluation, and testing setups and techniques Formal representation and verification of dependability properties
IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: Decision notification: Final manuscript due: Publishing date:
September 30, 2004 January 2005 February 2005 Summer 2005
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors should follow the Computer Communications manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/comcom. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to the Guest Editors:
Mohamed Eltoweissy
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech 7054 Haycock Rd, Falls Church, VA 22043, USA Voice: (703) 538-3751, Fax: (703) 538-8320 E-mail: [email protected]
Mohamed Younis
Department of Computer Science and Elect. Eng. University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 Voice: (410) 455-3968, FAX: (410) 455-3968 E-mail: [email protected]
Full details of submission or further information are available from the journal's web site (www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom), or from the General Editor, Jeremy Thompson ([email protected]).
CALL FOR PAPERS
communications
Dependable Wireless Sensor Networks Guest Editors: Mohamed Eltoweissy and Mohamed Younis PUBLICATION: SUMMER 2005
SCOPE
The past few years have witnessed increased interest in the potential use of wireless sensor networks in applications such as smart environments, disaster management, habitat monitoring, combat field reconnaissance and security surveillance. Sensors in these applications are expected to be remotely deployed and to operate autonomously in unattended environments. While the initial view of the community was that sensor networks will play a complementary role that enhances the quality of these applications, recent research results have encouraged practitioners to envision an increased reliance on sensor networks. To realize their potential, dependable design and operation of sensor networks have to be ensured. Dependability is a property that indicates the ability of a system to deliver specified services to the user. Dependability can be specified in terms of attributes, which include reliability, availability, safety, maintainability and security. Dependability in wireless sensor networks is complicated by many factors including: (1) sensors are significantly constrained in the amount of available resources such as energy, storage and computation; (2) sensors are expected to be deployed in very large numbers in normal as well as forbidding environments; and (3) wireless sensor networks suffer from structural weakness and limited physical protection. Also, dependability requirements may vary according to a network’s mission defined over a multi-dimensional context, such as field of deployment (e.g. hostile versus friendly), type of application (e.g. monitoring, tracking, data collection), mode of operation (e.g. normal, exception, post-event recovery), and time. This special issue of Computer Communications will report on recent research results on supporting dependability in wireless sensor networks. It is expected that non-conventional techniques more suited to wireless sensor networks may need to be employed. Also, in many cases trade-off would be necessary to ensure practicality by dynamically setting bounds on dependability. We solicit papers presenting original and unpublished work. Topics of interest include, although are not limited to, the following: • • • • • •
Fault-tolerant architectural and operation models • Robust routing of sensed data Predictable MAC medium access arbitration • Security architecture and protocols Quality of service provisioning • Metrics for measuring dependability Privacy-aware dependable operation • Novel applications of dependable sensor networks Specialized monitoring, evaluation, and testing setups and techniques Formal representation and verification of dependability properties
IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: Decision notification: Final manuscript due: Publishing date:
September 30, 2004 January 2005 February 2005 Summer 2005
PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors should follow the Computer Communications manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/comcom. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to the Guest Editors:
Mohamed Eltoweissy
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech 7054 Haycock Rd, Falls Church, VA 22043, USA Voice: (703) 538-3751, Fax: (703) 538-8320 E-mail: [email protected]
Mohamed Younis
Department of Computer Science and Elect. Eng. University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 Voice: (410) 455-3968, FAX: (410) 455-3968 E-mail: [email protected]
Full details of submission or further information are available from the journal's web site (www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom), or from the General Editor, Jeremy Thompson ([email protected]).