Wide Area Networks for Environmental Monitoring and Large-Scale Surveying Applications

Dear Colleagues,

As we move towards an increasingly digital world, the use of wireless communications for data acquisition in large-scale applications becomes paramount as a means for eliminating the use of wired links or cables. Some scenarios include but are not limited to the Internet of Things (IoT), meteorology, agriculture, disaster management and prevention, seismic exploration, industrial monitoring, and urban planning. While the literature may have addressed low-rate applications, there is a strong need for novel solutions that can meet more stringent requirements. Wireless networks for environmental monitoring, surveying applications, and wide-area IoT networks continue to grow in size and density. As sensors and acquisition equipment become more sophisticated, data traffic is expected to increase as well. For instance, seismic exploration requires real-time data delivery on an order of several gigabits per second, across a network of thousands of sensors that are deployed across very large areas. Naturally, the next generation of wireless communication networks will have to adapt and meet stricter requirements with respect to latency, throughput, and power consumption, while accounting for robust security. Furthermore, certain critical applications require the positions of the sensors to be estimated as well, in a manner that is robust against over-the-air spoofing attacks.

This Special Issue seeks to attract research articles catering to the analysis and design of novel wireless communication networks that can meet the demands of large-scale environmental monitoring and surveying applications. Each application or use-case may be associated with its own set of requirements, based on which wireless systems may be designed and optimized to enhance performance. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Wide area networks for environmental monitoring and large-scale surveying applications;
• Wide-area Internet-of-Things scenarios;
• Critical networks for industrial monitoring;
• Wireless geophone networks for seismic activity monitoring;
• Quality of service and performance optimization;
• Data compression schemes;
• Location estimation algorithms;
• Secure data communication and location estimation;
• Apparatus and sensors for wireless acquisition.

Dr. Varun Amar Reddy
Prof. Dr. Khaled Elleithy
Guest Editors

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• wide-area networks
• Internet of Things
• location estimation
• data compression
• quality of service
• wireless geophone networks
• secure data communication
• secure location estimation