CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet)
http://www.inderscience.com/ijsnet
Special Issue on:
Multimedia Data Applications in Wireless sensor networks

With recent technological advances in communication and computation, new Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications are growing. The emergence of low-energy and low-cost multimedia devices, such as microphones and cameras, has stimulated the development of the next generation WSN, known as Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN). WMSNs have brought unprecedented potentials especially for applications requiring ubiquitous access to the multimedia contents, such as still images, audio and video streams. The extra sensor capacity and various requirements of multimedia objects in-network processing also pose new and unique challenges. The challenges are crucial about how to energy-efficiently query, process, transfer, and store voluminous multimedia objects since most of the multimedia sensors are operated under limited battery powers. Additionally, relatively slow advancements in battery technologies make the energy constrain the fast progress in WMSNs.

This special issue will bring together those leading researchers and developers in fields of data and resource management, distributed storage techniques and energy efficiency to study the particular problems and challenges of wireless multimedia sensor networks. The purpose of the special session is therefore to foster communications between various communities including distributed database management communities, multimedia communication communities and sensor networks communities, and establish a common ground for advanced research and development in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks.
The published papers are expected to present high quality results on state-of-the-art algorithms, novel techniques and real applications associated with Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Multimedia in-network processing in WMSN
• Distributed source coding in WMSN
• Multimedia aggregation and fusion in WMSN
• Low-bit rate and energy-efficient multimedia source coding for WMSN
2. WMSN architectures and applications
• Scalable and flexible WMSN architecture
• WMSN design for supporting heterogeneous applications
• Multimedia sensor coverage
• Novel WMSN applications
• Experimental studies of WMSN
• WMSN modelling and performance analysis
3. Emerging WMSN technologies
• Hardware platform
• Physical layer technologies
• Energy harvesting technologies
4. Effective and energy-efficient protocols for WMSN
• Real-time and reliable multimedia streaming
• Routing and medium access control
• Topology control and synchronization protocols
• Energy efficient traffic management
• QoS provisioning protocols
5. Cross-layer design in WMSN
• Joint multimedia processing and communication
• Cooperative communication for multimedia delivery
• Effective cross-layer communication protocols
• Joint optimization for WMSN design
6. Data management for WMSN
• In-network and distributed storage techniques for WMSN
• Lightweight multimedia encoding techniques
• Collaborative in-network processing
• Energy-efficient DBMS for WMSN

Manuscript due: Nov 28, 2009;
Acceptance/rejection notification: March 31, 2010;
Final manuscript due: Jun 31, 2010;
Publication date: 4th Quarter of 2010.
Submitted papers should be original that are previously unpublished and not be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Please submit the manuscript as an e-mail attachment in PDF format to Dr. Jinli Cao at j.cao@latrobe.edu.au. All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page:(http://www.inderscience.com/www/authorguide.pdf ).

Dr. Jinli Cao
Department of Computer Science
La Trobe University , Melbourne VIC 3086
Tel: (613) 94793035; Fax: (613) 94793060
Email: j.cao@latrobe.edu.au

Professor Xiaohua Jia
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2788 9670; Fax: (852) 2788 8614
Email: csjia@cityu.edu.hk

Dr. Leon L. Shu
Digital Enterprise Research Institute
National University of Ireland, Ireland
E-mail: lei.shu@deri.org