Distributed Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks

Call for Papers

The past decade has seen the rapid convergence of mobile phones, distributed computational platforms, and wireless sensor networks. Rapid advances in wireless communications and data- driven applications have further fueled this convergence. As a result, these networks have evolved from disparate, heterogeneous networks to converged networks capable of meeting the demands of data-centric wireless services and applications. From smartphones to tablets, portable game consoles, and other “smart” devices, these represent an enormous but untapped distributed computational and sensing resource. Exploiting this diverse set of computational resources will require advances in adapting to the mobility, availability, and heterogeneity of distributed nodes.

The special issue will focus on the challenges arising out of mobility, existence of heterogeneous computing platforms, unpredictability in availability, adaptability to changing application needs, information sharing between sensor nodes, and other issues that affect the performance of such sensor networks. This special issue is being organized to provide a forum for international researchers to present their cutting- edge results this field, as well as to lay out their vision for the future. Special emphasis will be given to the technical and observational results obtained within the last five years. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Architectures, algorithms, and complexity issues in distributed mobile computation environments
• Resource sharing and load balancing of distributed computing on mobile or wireless sensor networks
• Managing resource constraints in a heterogeneous mobile environment
• Coordination of tasks on mobile sensor nodes
• Performance evaluation of distributed computing on mobile or wireless nodes
• Vehicular delay-tolerant network and trustworthy vehicular network in ITS
• Real-world applications of distributed computing in wireless networks in areas such as medical, military, manufacturing, transportation, safety, and environmental planning systems

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Lead Guest Editor

• Sesh Commuri, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 110 W. Boyd Street, DEH 432, Norman, OK 73019, USA

Guest Editors

• Mohammed Atiquzzaman, School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, 110 W. Boyd Street, DEH 150, Norman, OK 73019, USA
• Ron Barnes, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 110 W. Boyd Street, DEH 336, Norman, OK 73019, USA
• Dan Connors, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado at Denver, 1200 Larimer Street, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217, USA
• Maciej Zawodniok, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 133 Emerson Hall, 301 W. 16th Street, Rolla, MO 65409, USA