Special Session on Industrial Wireless Networking

Wireless communication is very appealing for a broad range of automation applications, including industrial process monitoring and control, home and factory automation, environmental, building and structural monitoring and energy management. Wireless communications in the automation domain impose a number of research challenges, such as communication reliability, bandwidth management, latency issues and energy efficiency. In dynamic environments, very challenging research issues arrive when non-functional properties, such as real-time behavior and adaptability, must be enforced. We solicit technical papers describing original ideas, theory, methodology and experiences from the design, implementation and deployment of wireless systems for industrial automation.