Guest Editorial - Special Session: Information Processing and Data Management in Wireless sensor Networks

The rapid progress of wireless communication and embedded micro-sensing MEMS technologies has made wireless sensor networks possible. A wireless sensor network normally comes a large area with many inexpensive, tiny sensor nodes, each capable of collecting, processing, and storing environmental information, and communicating with neighboring nodes. In the past, sensors are connected by wired lines. Nowadays, ad hoc networking technologies can much simplify the network formation task. Installation and configura- tion of a wireless sensor network are thus effortless. Many applications of wireless sensor networks have been proposed, including field data collection, remote monitoring and control, smart home, factory automation, security, etc.