Dear Authors, Editorial Advisory Board Members, and Subject Area Editors,
In this, our fourth year of existence, we have made remarkable progress by publishing quality papers from all over the world. The scope of this journal is to provide a comprehensive and balanced perspective on distributed sensor networks with a strong emphasis on technology transition into innovative real word applications. Today's current knowledge that is available to federal agencies would certainly be enhanced by collaboration with universities allowing us to solve many new practical problems.
We seek techniques, tools, and case studies which go beyond a laboratory setup. Our aim is to draw as many manuscripts as possible in areas of interest to the sensor network community, including but not limited to Manufacturing, Automation, Communication, and Information on Computer Technologies including Cyberspace, Internet, and Distributed Sensor Technologies. The highlights of this journal are now listed under the Science and Engineering Citation Index.
In the third year of our existence the journal received 24 papers during the 2006–2007 year with a 20% publication acceptance rate, 40% of those papers going through major revisions, and others declined for publication. The third year has been quite phenomenal with high quality papers and two special issues (One on Heterogeneous Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks and the other on Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing). The average turn-around time from submission to publication was 6 months, demonstrating an excellent refereeing and review process. Each submission has gone through the review process to guarantee quality and technology innovation.
During a meeting of the Area Editors at the International Conference on Innovations and Commercial Applications of Distributive Sensor Networks, held on October 16–17, 2006 in Crystal City, Washington DC. It was decided to add four new area editors to this journal to minimize the paper backlog. We were privileged to find 4 new editors with exceptional qualifications. The new editors are:
Guohong Cao — received his BS degree from Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China. He received the MS degree and PhD degree in computer science from the Ohio State University in 1997 and 1999 respectively. Since then, he has been with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests are wireless networks and mobile computing. He has published over one hundred papers in the areas of sensor networks, wireless network security, data dissemination, resource management, and distributed fault-tolerant computing. He has served on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and has served on the program committee of many conferences. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2001.
Chin-Tser Huang — received the B.S. degree in computer science and information engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1993, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 2003 and is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include network security, wireless and mobile networks, network protocol design and verification, and distributed systems. He is the director of the Secure Protocol Implementation and Development (SPID) Laboratory at the University of South Carolina. He is the author (along with Mohamed Gouda) of the book “Hop Integrity in the Internet,” published by Springer in 2005. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, IEEE, and ACM.
Mahmut Kandemir — is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Pennsylvania State University. He is a member of the Microsystems Design Lab. Dr. Kandemir's research interests are in embedded systems, programming languages, compilers, power-aware computing, dependable computing, and input/output systems, and he is the author of about 200 research papers in these areas. He has graduated 4 Ph.D. and 5 masters students so far, and is currently supervising 9 Ph.D. students. He has served in the program committees of 40 conferences and workshops. His research is funded by NSF, DARPA, and SRC. He is a recipient of NSF Career Award and the Penn State Engineering Society Outstanding Research Award.
Yuan Xue — received her B.S. in Computer Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 1998 and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002, and 2005. Currently she is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University. She is a recipient of the Vodafone fellowship. Her research interests include wireless and sensor networks, peer-to-peer and overlay systems, QoS support, and network security. She is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
In summary, we encourage all of you and your colleagues to submit your best papers to this journal. We would also appreciate your posting and distributing copies of this journal to the scientific/engineering community. Finally, please write to us with any suggestions that you may have to improve the visibility/quality of the journal.
Yours truly,
