CR 2012 - Special Issue Advances in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

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Category CR 2012

Deadline: July 16, 2012 | Date: August 03, 2012

Venue/Country: Online, Online

Updated: 2012-05-17 22:52:57 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Cognitive radio (CR) is envisaged as an enabling technology to overcome the problem of spectrum scarcity and inefficient usage by opportunistically using portions of the wireless spectrum. CR networks, equipped with the intrinsic capabilities of cognitive radio, will provide an ultimate spectrum-aware communication paradigm in wireless communications. CR networks, however, impose unique challenges due to the high fluctuation in the available spectrum as well as diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements. In particular, in cognitive radio ad hoc networks (CRAHNs), the distributed multihop architecture, the dynamic network topology, and the time- and location-varying spectrum availability are some of the key distinguishing factors that raise unique issues in the network design.

The objective of this special issue is to bring together state of-the-art research contributions that address all aspects of CRAHNs. Original papers describing completed and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference are solicited. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

Capacity analysis and bounds for distributed CRAHNs

New theories, architectures, or models for wireless cognitive networks

End-to-end quality of service guarantees in CRAHNs

Spectrum sensing and management for CRAHNs

Cognitive medium access control and scheduling

Transport layer design, TCP extensions for CRAHNs

Joint route and spectrum allocation

Application scenarios and emerging markets over CRAHNs, such as environmental monitoring, smart grids, emergency responders, disaster recovery, high bandwidth multimedia communication, military deployment, and homeland security among others

Cooperation in CRAHNs

Optimized resource management and adaptive cross-layer design

Security challenges in CRAHNs

Game theory, economics of deployment, and machine learning

Experimental and testbed-based studies

Standards development for CRAHNs

Challenges and application limits faced by CRAHNs

Performance evaluation studies

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jece/guidelines/ . Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due 2012-07-16

Publication Date Friday, 3 August 2012

Lead Guest Editor

Haitao Zhao , College of Electronic Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Hunan Province, Changsha 410073, China

Guest Editors

Emiliano Garcia-Palacios , ECIT, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland Science Park, Queen's Road, Queen's Island, Belfast BT3 9DT, UK

Xiao Yu (Shelley) Wang , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1

Ghazanfar Ali Safdar , Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire LU1 3JU, UK