===================================================================== ======= Special Issue: "Cognitive Wireless Sensor Networks" ======= ====== International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks ====== =====================================================================
Detailed information about this Special Issue can be found at: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/si/280861/cfp/ Cognitive radio (CR) has attracted a large amount of interest in the telecommunications field. A CR is aware of its surrounding electromagnetic environment and uses that knowledge to improve its performance. A CR monitors the radio spectrum continuously and uses the available channels in the best possible way without interfering users (primary users) who originally own the channels. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have benefited from advances in processing capability, memory capacity, and battery technology to enable the deployment of inexpensive communication nodes. Current WSNs are deployed over unlicensed frequency band that faces an increased level of interference from various wireless systems. Cognitive WSNs (CWSNs) adopt dynamic spectrum access and cognitive communication from CR to improve spectrum utilization and network performance, while taking into account the energy and processing constrains inherent to WSN applications. CWSN is especially beneficial for WSN applications in building environments such as hospitals and residential homes, where transmission reliability, power management, and interference avoidance are critical issues. The main focus of this special issue is on manuscripts that report recent results in the application of CR concepts to WSN scenarios. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Dynamic spectrum management - Architectures, protocols, algorithms, and applications - Performance evaluations and simulations - Quality-of-Service (QoS) issues and network management - Field tests and pilot projects - Spectrum sensing - Energy efficiency issues - Relaying and routing - Interference management - Security issues Submission information: 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/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: Friday, 22 February 2013 First Round of Reviews: Friday, 17 May 2013 Publication Date: Friday, 12 July 2013 Lead Guest Editor: Carlos Pomalaza-Ráez, University of Oulu, Finland ([email protected]) Guest Editors: Chao Chen, Indiana UniversityPurdue University Fort Wayne, USA ([email protected]) Yunfei Chen, University of Warwick, UK ([email protected]) Güngör Vehbi Çagri, Bahcesehir University, Turkey ([email protected]) _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
