Towards Zero-Energy Distributed Sensing Systems

Call for Papers

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are one of the technological cornerstones for future applications in energy end-use efficiency, transport efficiency, environmental monitoring, and smart cities. Today the major challenges of using WSN in real deployment are energy-related issues to guarantee adequate lifetime of the platforms.

Innovative solutions in terms of onboard hardware for energy scavenging, energy adaptive algorithms, and power management policies of the nodes in the network are the ultimate frontiers, and they open the door to unlimited and uninterrupted operation (zero-energy networks).

We are interested in articles on the advances in distributed sensor networks with ultralow power capability and energy harvesting policies, as well as those that describe practical deployment and implementation experiences are solicited for submission. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Power management concepts for energy harvesting systems
• Middleware support and services supporting interoperability between zero-energy networks
• Network-wide and distributed energy management
• Analytic, simulation, and prototype-based approaches for distributed sensor performance/energy characterization
• Energy-aware network planning (e.g., routing, duty-cycle adaptation)
• Scaling laws and fundamental limits
• Power-aware scheduling, algorithms, and operating systems
• Energy and performance profiling
• Online accounting of energy consumption
• Energy harvesting prototypes
• Energy storage and buffers
• Design and optimization of distributed sensing infrastructures for reliable and real-time communication at zero energy cost
• Models of energy harvesters
• Standards and interoperability for energy efficient distributed sensing infrastructures
• Methods for energy intake prediction
• Real-world deployments and field tests
• Internet of battery, less things
• Low energy consumption solutions for sensor nodes and processors

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/ijdsn/tze/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Davide Brunelli, DISI, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

Guest Editors

• Aravind Kailas, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA
• Christian Renner, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany