Call for Papers

SCOPE

The use of sensors is familiar to citizens as they are incorporated in many devices including smartphones, vehicles, appliances, smartwatches, among others. The use of sensor networks is spreading faster everyday, and some examples are their application in agriculture, health, energy, environment, industry, smart cities, etc. These sensors are usually part of a set of sensors, which are interconnected with each other, and usually with a coordinating (sink)  node. Depending on the application and the types of sensors that interact or from which information is collected, the links will be established using different standards depending on requirements: range, bandwidth, power consumption, etc.. Due to its configuration flexibility and lower deployment cost, wireless sensor networks have become the most popular.

Nevertheless, several issues and challenges must be faced by engineers to guarantee the highest QoS, as security, channel reliability, battery life, interoperability with other networks, etc. Sensor networks performance rely on several impacting factors which must be investigated: network architecture, operating system, hardware implementation, radio interface, protocols, sensors technology, which must be optimized to achieve the highest availability, reliability, throughput and power saving.

In these networks, each node may be equipped with a variety of sensors, such as acoustic, seismic, infrared, motion, biomedical and chemical sensors with higher level of information inference associated with identification, embedded signal processing and networking of the data.

This conference intends to be the meeting point of researchers and practitioners to share experiences and ideas on innovative developments in any aspect of sensor networks, including Hardware of Sensor Networks, Wireless Communication Protocols, Sensor Networks Software, Hardware and Architectures, Wireless Information Networks, Channel Characterization, Data Manipulation, Signal Processing, Localization and Object Tracking through Sensor Networks, Modelling and Simulation, Applications and Uses.

Papers describing original work are invited in any of the areas listed below. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the proceedings of SENSORNETS. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. There will be both oral and poster sessions. Special sessions, dedicated to case-studies and commercial presentations, as well as technical tutorials, dedicated to technical/scientific topics, are also envisaged.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

AREA 1: SENSOR NETWORKS AND ARCHITECTURES

• Wireless Network Protocols
• Wired and Wireless Sensor Systems: Signals, Transceivers, and Interfaces
• Communication Standards for WSN
• Wearable Computing and Body Area Networks
• Energy Efficiency and Energy Harvesting
• Power Management
• Ad Hoc Networks
• Network Performance
• Network Topologies
• Routing Techniques
• Connectivity and Communication
• Network Security Threats
• Static or Mobile Sensor Technology
• Software-Defined Sensor Networks
• Human-Computer Interfaces
• Scheduling, Tasking and Control

AREA 2: INTELLIGENT DATA ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING FOR SENSOR NETWORKS

• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Computational Intelligence
• Sensor Data Fusion & Deep Learning
• Collaborative Sensor Data Management
• Aggregation, Classification and Tracking
• Big Data
• Reasoning on Sensor Data
• Multi-Sensor Data Processing
• Data Collection
• Pervasive Computing
• Large Scale Systems
• Data Storage and Transmission
• Programming and Middleware
• Sensor Networks Operating Systems

AREA 3: SENSOR NETWORKS APPLICATIONS

• Internet of Things
• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Embedded Systems
• Smart Objects
• Smart Cities
• Smart Buildings and Home Monitoring
• Environment Monitoring
• Industrial Monitoring
• Animal and Object Tracking
• Precision Agriculture
• Decision Support
• Healthcare
• Defense and Security

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

PAPER SUBMISSION

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (consult SCITEPRESS Ethics of Publication)
It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending)
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Engineering Index (EI) and Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

SECRETARIAT

SENSORNETS Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: sensornets.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: http://www.sensornets.org

VENUE

The conference will be held at the Vienna University of Technology - Freihaus Building, Vienna, Austria.

TU Wien (TUW) is located in the heart of Europe, in a cosmopolitan city of great cultural diversity. For more than 200 years, TU Wien has been a place of research, teaching and learning in the service of progress. TU Wien is among the most successful technical universities in Europe and is Austria’s largest scientific-technical research and educational institution.

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