Wireless Machine-to-Machine Networks

Jianhua He 1 and Yan Zhang 2 and Zhong Fan 3 and Hsiao-Hwa Chen 4 and Lin Bai 5 1, School of Electronics and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK 2, Simula Research Laboratory, Fornebu, 1325 Lysaker, Norway 3, Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Bristol BS1 4ND, UK 4, Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City 70101, Taiwan 5, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China Received 30 October 2012; Accepted 30 October 2012 This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The thirteen papers included in this special issue presented the latest research on both protocol design and theoretic analysis for wireless M2M networks, which are based on various wireless communication technologies (e.g., cellular networks, wireless sensor networks, DSRC, and IEEE 802.15.4).