id: 05696145 dt: j an: 05696145 au: Cantoni, Virginio; Lombardi, Luca; Lombardi, Paolo ti: Future scenarios of parallel computing: distributed sensor networks. so: J. Vis. Lang. Comput. 18, No. 5, 484-491 (2007). py: 2007 pu: Elsevier Science (Academic Press), London la: EN cc: ut: wireless sensor networks; massively parallel processing; MEMS; motes; distributed sensor networks ci: li: doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2007.08.007 ab: Summary: Over the past few years, motivated by the accelerating technological convergence of sensing, computing and communications, there has been a growing interest in potential and technological challenges of Wireless Sensor Network. This paper will introduce a wide range of current basic research lines dealing with ad hoc networks of spatially distributed systems, data rate requirements and constraints, real-time fusion and registration of data from distributed sensors, cooperative control, hypothesis generation, and network consensus filtering. This technical domain has matured to the point where a number of industrial products and systems have appeared. The presentation will also describe the state of the art regarding current and soon-to-appear applications. rv: