Special Issue on Bio-Inspired Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks ISI Thomson Impact Factor (2012): 0.727 Call for Papers Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are gaining significant interest from academia and industry. Multihop wireless networks are self-organizing, self-healing with cost-effective deployment and maintenance; yet a lot needs to be done in terms of efficient and robust solutions. This special issue is dedicated to consider the technical and theoretical applications and challenges of bio-inspired networking and communication in WSN. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Adaptive security mechanismsScalable network architectureSelf-organizing systemsSelf-healing mechanismsEvolutionary algorithmsAnt colonization, swarm intelligence techniquesArtificial neural networks Artificial immune methodologies Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal�s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guideline/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/ijdsn/bim/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript Due: Friday, 17 January 2014 First Round of Reviews: Friday, 11 April 2014 Publication Date: Friday, 6 June 2014 Lead Guest Editor S. Khan, IIT, Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Guest Editors Jaime Lloret, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain Elsa Macias-L�pez, Department of Telematics Engineering, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University, Spain