Guest editorial

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Huang, T.-C. and Guo, M. (2007), "Guest editorial", International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 3 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijpcc.2007.36103caa.001

Guest editorial

Guest editorial

Guest Editors Tsung-Chuan Huang Received his PhD in electrical engineering from National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, in 1989. From August 1993 to 1994, he visited Center for Supercomputing Research and Development of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as a visiting scholar. Dr Huang is currently a professor of Department of Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. He has served as a program vice-chair and a program committee member for many international conferences, and now is in the editorial board of International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications. His research interests include parallelizing compiler, high performance computer architecture, parallel processing, algorithm, mobile computing, and wireless, ad hoc and sensor networks.

Minyi Guo Received his PhD degree in computer science from University of Tsukuba, Japan. Before 2000, Dr Guo had been a research scientist of NEC Corp., Japan. He is now a chair professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He was also a visiting professor of Georgia State University, USA, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Hong Kong, National Sun Yet-Sen University in Taiwan, China, University of Waterloo, Canada and University of New South Wales, Australia. He is also a professor of The University of Aizu, Japan. Guo has published more than 130 research papers in international journals and conferences. Dr Guo has served as general chair, program committee or organizing committee chair for many international conferences. He is the founder of International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA), and International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC). He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Embedded Systems. He is also in editorial board of International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, Journal of Embedded Computing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing, and International Journal of Computer and Applications. Guo's research interests include parallel and distributed processing, parallelizing compilers, pervasive computing, embedded software optimization, molecular computing and software engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the ACM, IPSJ and IEICE.

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are formed by a collection of potentially mobile devices equipped with wireless communication and networking capacity without the support of any fixed infrastructure. Such devices can communicate with each other no matter they are within their radio transmission range or not. Since their emergence in the 1970s, MANETs have been an extensive research topic in the past decade. Being characterized by their frequent and unpredictable topology changes, numerous problems and challenges exist in this field.

With the advances of hardware and wireless network technologies, low-cost, low-power, multifunctional miniature sensor devices have been created in the recent years. Sensor networks are usually self-organized ad hoc networks consisting of a number of these nodes. They provide access to information anywhere, anytime by disseminating, processing, and gathering data in the geographical areas of interest. Sensor networks are in many ways similar to the MANETs, but generally they involve little spatial mobility and are more resource constrained and with more number of nodes.

This special issue includes seven best papers selected from the workshop on wireless, ad hoc, and sensor networks, which was held at National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, in July 29 and August 1-2, 2005. Even the seven papers had been strictly sifted from the 73 submitted papers to the workshop; they were reviewed further by one more external reviewer to ensure the quality of presentation in the special issue.

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all authors for their valuable contributions and to all referees for their cooperation in completing the hard work and putting in the long hours to review each paper in a timely and processional way.

Tsung-Chuan Huang and Minyi GuoGuest Editors