<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:13px"><b><span class="">Wireless</span> <span class="">Sensor</span> and <span class="">Actuator</span> <span class="">Networks</span></b><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><i style="color:rgb(147,78,78);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(147,78,78);text-decoration:none">Electronics</a></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px"> (ISSN 2079-9292)</span><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><span class="">Wireless</span> <span class="">sensor</span> and <span class="">actuator</span> <span class="">networks</span> (WSANs) are becoming the emerging <span class="">networking</span> infrastructure for cyber-physical systems as WSANs offer numerous advantages beyond traditional communication <span class="">networks</span>. A <span class="">wireless</span> <span class="">sensor</span> and <span class="">actuator </span><span class="">network</span> is the integration of embedded computing devices, <span class="">sensors</span>, <span class="">actuators</span>, and <span class="">wireless</span> communication mechanisms. WSANs operate in a closed “sense-think-act” loop of environmental data gathered by <span class="">sensors</span>, then processed by embedded computing devices to issue decisions, and wirelessly transferred <span class="">actuators</span> to make changes to the environments. The closed loop enables WSANs to sense and perceive, interact, and manipulate the physical world directly without human operation, providing great potential for our daily-life applications.</span><br></div><div style="font-size:13px"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px">The aim of this Special Issue is to gather the most recent research results of <span class="">wireless</span> <span class="">sensor</span> and <span class="">actuator</span> <span class="">networks</span>. We invite all papers with theoretical and experimental contributions within, but not limited to, the following topics:</p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:16px"><li style="margin-left:15px">Current state of the art of WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">System design and integration in WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Embedded hardware and software for WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Sensory data gathering and processing in WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Signal processing in WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Throughput optimization of WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Delay and jitter of WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Routing protocols of WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Energy maximization of WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Mobility in WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Deployment and exploration of WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Reliability of WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Information security in WSANs<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px">Applications in WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Constrained optimization of WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Soft-computing techniques applied for WSANs</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Control engineering applied for WSANs</li></ul><div>Instructions for submission: <a href="http://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/wsan" target="_blank">http://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/wsan</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Trung<br></div><div><a href="http://www.morelab.org">www.morelab.org</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>