Algorithm and Theory for Robust Wireless Sensor Networks 2014

The special issue “Algorithm and Theory for Robust Wireless Sensor Networks” was published earlier in 2013. Based on the success of 2013's special issue, we are honored to be invited again to make this special issue (a new issue) as 2014's annual special issue, which means that it will become the first issue in a series of special issues which will be published each year in this journal. We hope that such a series can have a long-term impact and in time gather a wireless sensor network community around it.

The main focus of the series of these special issues from 2013 to 2014 is devoted to a deeper understanding of the fundamental protocols, algorithms, modeling, and analysis techniques for robust wireless sensor networks, which exhibit substantial vulnerability when compared to other networks. Recently there are so many papers developing new techniques in wireless sensor networks. However, we believe that the algorithmic and theoretical issues in the robust wireless sensor networks were not fully explored.

In this annual special issue, totally we have received 25 submissions, coming from different countries all around the globe in response to call for paper. We also invited some extended best papers from 2014 IET International Conference on Frontiers of Internet of Things (FIT), which was held in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on December 4–6, 2014. Each accepted article has been reviewed by at least three reviewers. In the end, nine articles are revised and selected for publishing in this annual special issue. We believe that the accepted papers present the most up-to-date progress in algorithms and theory for robust wireless sensor networks with respect to different networking problems.