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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER

Title: Rechargeable Sensor Networks: Technology, Theory and Application
(to be published in 2013 by World Scientific Publishing)


Introduction
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With the rapidly growing applications of large-scale sensor networks, the need to uncover efficient energy source is becoming more and more compelling, in order to reduce cost and run sensor networks perpetually. Harvesting energy from ambient energy resources to power the electronic devices has been recognized as a promising solution to satisfy the long period requirement of unattended operation. Achieving sustainable network lifetime via battery-aware design brings forth a new frontier for energy optimization techniques, which experienced low-power hardware design at the early stage, evolved into power-aware design, and recently, battery-aware design. As a result, approaches of harvesting energy from sources of solar, vibration, temperature variations, wind, biochemical energy and passive human power, have been proposed as alternatives to replace the batteries on the electronic devices.

In practice, there is an increasing trend in integrating energy harvesting technology and wireless sensor network, instead of optimizing hardware design of energy harvesting and network protocols separately, in order to maximize the network performance. A variety of applications can be observed under development or in practical usage, e.g. surveillance system and personal healthcare. The advantages of different energy-harvesting approaches and their impacts on the overall performance of sensor networks should be systematically compared and analyzed, so as to make the rechargeable sensor networks more practical, efficient, and robust.


Recommended Topics (not limited to)
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Part 1: Energy harvesting technology

. An introduction to energy harvesting technology
. Solar-cell
. Wind
. Vibration
. Piezoelectric
. Inductive
. Photovoltaic
. Thermoelectric
. RFID
. WISP
. Other approaches of energy harvesting

Part 2: Protocol design of rechargeable sensor networks
. Energy management system
. Physical layer
. Network layer
. Transport layer
. Cross-layer optimization
. Game theoretic approaches
. Case studies, testbed and experiment
. Other protocol optimization related to rechargeable sensor networks

Part 3: Emerging applications of rechargeable network system

. Applications related to rechargeable network system, like
. Personal activity recognition
. Environmental monitoring
. Surveillances
. Etc


Important Dates
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You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal describing the topic of your chapter. The proposal should include the chapter organization, number of pages of the final manuscript and contact authors.
Deadline: Sept.30. 2012

Notification of proposal acceptance: Oct.30. 2012

Full chapter submission: Dec.30, 2012

Final version submission: March.30, 2013


Manuscript Submission
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Set as double-spaced; Estimated, each chapter should has about 35 pages with double-space format.


Contact
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Please make correspondence and paper submissions to bookedit.zju@gmail.com

Prof. Jiming Chen
Zhejiang University, China

Dr. Shibo He
Zhejiang University, China

Prof. Youxian Sun
Zhejiang University, China