In the current research inclination, hiring of biological solutions to solve and optimize different aspects of artificial systems' problems has been shaped into an important field with the name of bioinspired computing. The ultimate ideological convergence of scientists to this perfect creation of living beings from the one for finding the relevant traces of problems and their solutions is in fact moving to the best. Tough biological systems exhibit complex, intelligent, and organized behavior yet they are comprised of simple elements governed by simple rules. It is highly cost effective to hire the complex and in-networked processing-based simple rules in man-made systems. The real effort that comes in this synergistic solution is in finding the similar patterns of issues in artificial (man-made) and real (natural) creation and later their solutions. This invites the interdisciplinary research which is an essential driver for innovation.

Many complete research fields inspired by the constituents of biological system have been established, which have their key roles in optimizing the solution for various problems in nonbiological systems. Among these, a noticeable increase is observed in the interaction of wireless network devices and physical world in numerous ways at various scales from the global Internet down to micro- and nanodevices. Because of the multifaceted nature of these miniature devices solutions from various domains are hired to ameliorate the overall network performance. Wireless sensor network as one of the most emergent miniature technologies with long list of applications in various fabrics of life has been targeted to resolve various issues and to optimize the performance through the solutions of bioinspired domain.

This special issue aims to emphasize the latest achievements to identify the biological methodologies and their applications to technical solutions in the new research domain of wireless ad hoc and sensor network. The possible papers are likely to exploit connectionism, social behavior, and emergence of biological systems in various problem solving methods in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. It may also outline essential challenges, proof of the concept studies with direct and simulated comparison to technical solutions, and mathematical models of biological principles in the same domain.

This special issue also encapsulates all the techniques having the direct biological background, that is, animal learning stratagem as well as self-organizing methodologies that are analyzed and observed in molecular biology. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Adaptive, scalable systems protocols
Bioinspired network architectures and algorithms
Self-learning and self-governing algorithms
Self-healing systems and protocols
Security mechanisms
Communication systems based on self-organizing mechanisms
Network protocols and algorithms
Energy efficient congestion control techniques
Performance evaluation of bioinspired wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/js/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/js/adhoc/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due Friday, 14 November 2014
First Round of Reviews Friday, 6 February 2015
Publication Date Friday, 3 April 2015

Lead Guest Editor
Anand Paul, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

Guest Editors

Daniel Bo-Wei Chen, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Wanmin Wang, Peking University, Beijing, China