Wireless Sensor Networks

Recent development in wireless communication networks has enabled the large-scale deployment of low-cost, energy efficient, and multi-purpose wireless sensor networks. A lot of real-world applications have been already deployed and many of them will be based on wireless sensor networks. These applications include geographical monitoring, medical care, manufacturing, transportation, military, and surveillance systems. Due to the nature of wireless communication networks, many security challenges are faced when dealing and working with such technologies including eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle, spoofing, and DDoS. Security is the key issue for reliable critical applications in wireless sensor networks. Advances in design and prototype of security mechanisms in wireless sensor network systems for protecting the confidentiality, availability, and integrity are crucial for the success of sensor applications. Original contributions are solicited in all the relevant security issues in wireless sensor networks, including but not limited to: 

Protocols and architectures for wireless sensor networks.   

Key distribution and key management.   

Provably-secure cryptographic protocols.   

Public-key and symmetric-key cryptosystems, block ciphers, and hash functions.   

Network security protocols: DNS security, routing, naming, denial-of-service attacks, TCP/IP, secure multicast.   

Anonymity techniques.   

Trust mechanisms.   

Privacy.   

Security and usability.   

Automated analysis of protocols.   

Authentication mechanisms.   

Biometric-based security schemes.   

RFID.

Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Practical experiences from innovative real-world sensor network deployments and applications

Hands-on experiences with the integration of sensor networks and the Internet of Things

Middleware support for sensor networks

Programming and debugging sensor networks

Security, availability and dependability issues in sensor networks

Experiences with new sensor hardware and node/platform designs

Experiences with sensor hardware integration

Practical problems in implementing localization and time synchronization

Experiences with communication protocols

Practical medium access control protocols (MACs)

Topology control and routing protocols in sensor network deployments

Novel communication paradigms for wireless sensor networks

Mobility management in sensor applications and deployments

Fault-tolerance and troubleshooting sensor networks

Antenna design and experiences with signal propagation

Experiences regarding energy management and network lifetime

Experiences with energy harvesters and energy-sustainable designs

Deployment, installation, and configuration support

Management of large-scale sensor networks and sensing campaigns

Interconnection between IP and sensor networks

Interfacing with sensor networks using mobile computing devices

Large-scale open sensor data sets from real deployments

Integration of wireless sensor networks with smart city infrastructures

Smart infrastructure support with wireless sensing technology

Real-world use of WSN platforms in smart spaces and cyber-physical systems

Sensor networking for smart power grids