IJCNDS 2010 - Special Issue on "Scalable Wireless Networks" International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)

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Deadline: October 01, 2009 | Date: March 01, 2010

Venue/Country: Wroclaw, Poland

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

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International Journal of Communication Networks and

Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)

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Aims and Scope:

With the explosive proliferation of mobile communications and wireless

computing devices, the scalability property is becoming an increasingly

popular and important issue in wireless communication research, as it

has been recognized as one of the key features for supporting pervasive

networking scenarios.

The scalability concept involves several dimensions, like the node

number, the data load, the user/application number, etc, and it is the

basis to break up the cellular concept enriching it by multi-hop

communications. Nevertheless, many aspects of scalable wireless

communications are still open problems and, furthermore, some of the

scalable solutions for wireless networks proposed so far are based on

ideal assumptions not always justified in the practical applications.

The aim of this special issue is to bring together the state-of-the-art

research contributions that address the major opportunities and

challenges of scalable wireless communication and networking, with

emphasis on the design, the analysis and the evaluation of new

techniques and novel application scenarios.

Topics of Interest:

Original, unpublished contributions addressing application and

architectures, systems and protocols design, development and analysis,

in all areas related to scalable wireless networks are solicited.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- congestion, scheduling and admission control

- MAC and data link algorithms

- routing, broadcasting and multicasting protocols

- transport-layer protocols

- data transportation, dissemination, aggregation, replication and management

- resource allocation, discovery and management

- context and location-aware services

- power-aware architectures, algorithms and protocols design

- security and privacy

- Quality of Service (QoS) and fairness provisioning

- cross-layer design and optimization

- information theoretic aspects of large scale wireless networks

- innovative modulation and coding techniques

- wireless sensor networks

- mobile, mesh and vehicular ad hoc networks

- opportunism and cooperation for scalable communications

- scalable peer-to-peer and delay-tolerant networks

- modeling and simulation methodologies for large scale wireless networks

- practical issues, prototypes and test beds design to investigate scalability

- challenges arising from new technologies (UWB, MIMO, beam forming, Cognitive Radio, etc.)

Important dates:

Paper submission due: October 1, 2009

Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2010

Camera-ready version due: March 1, 2010

Submissions:

Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research,

unpublished and not currently under review by another conference or journal.

Papers previously appeared in proceedings of conferences could be submitted

to this special issue if they are substantially revised or improved from

their earlier versions with at least 30% of new materials.

The manuscripts should follow the template available on

http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=64.

A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for

submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31.

All submitted manuscripts will be judged based on the correctness,

originality, technical strength, significance and quality of presentation

through a double-blind peer review process.