Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), that consist of thousands of
low-cost sensor nodes, have been used in many promising applications,
such as military surveillance, infrastructure protection, scientific
exploration and smart environments. Researchers in this area have
accumulated a large portfolio of network services and middleware,
effectively addressing a wide range of individual research problems.
However, because of the limited understanding on how to integrate
these components effectively, the sensor network community faces an
urgent and challenging question of how to build sensor network systems
efficiently. To address the challenge, this special issue of SIGBED
Review presents novel ideas on architecture-level services and
protocol interfaces, program abstractions, network function
decomposition, partitioning and tasking, high-level engineering of
sensor network protocols, and IP integration for wide-area sensor
networks.
We would like to thank all of the authors for choosing SIGBED Review
as a forum for the communication of their research results. We would
also like to thank the SIGBED Review Editors for their coordination.
Special Issue Editors:
Tian He and John A. Stankovic
The 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
(UbiComp'07)
Innsbruck, Austraia, Europe, September 16-19 2007
The 5th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked
Sensor Systems (SenSys 2007)
Sydney, Australia, November 6-9, 2007
The 7th International Conference on Information Processing in
Sensor Netowrks (IPSN'08)
St. Louis, Missouri, USA, April 22-24, 2008 Abstract due: October 26, 2007
Paper due: November 2, 2007
The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing
Systems (ICDCS
2008)
Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2008 Paper submission: November 15, 2007
The 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2007)
Tucson, Arizona, December 3-6, 2007
A State-Based Language for Sensor-Actuator Networks Anish Arora1,
Mohamed Gouda2,
Jason O. Hallstrom3,
Ted Herman4,
William M. Leal1, and
Nigamanth Sridhar5 1Ohio State University,
2University of Texas,
3Clemson University,
4University of Iowa,
5Cleveland State University
An Architecture for Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Networks Xiaofan Jiang1,
Jay Taneja1,
Jorge Ortiz1,
Arsalan Tavakoli1,
Prabal Dutta1,
Jaein Jeong1,
David Culler1,3,
Philip Levis2, and
Scott Shenker1 1Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences , UC Berkeley 2Department of Computer Science, Stanford University 3Arch Rock Corporation
A Declarative Sensornet Architecture Arsalan Tavakoli1,
David Chu1,
Joseph M. Hellerstein1,
Philip Levis2,
and Scott Shenker1 1UC Berkeley EECS Department,
2Stanford CS Department
