[MCN'08] JSAC CFP: Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking

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JSAC CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on Mission Critical Networking

Mission-Critical Networking (MCN) refers to networking for
application domains where life or livelihood may be at risk. Typical
application domains for MCN include critical infrastructure
protection and operation, emergency and crisis intervention,
healthcare services, and military operations. Such networking is
essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex
world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity, emergent
behaviors, and the need for reliable and timely response. MCN should
comprise networking technology, infrastructures and services that
may alleviate the risk and directly enable and enhance connectivity
for mission-critical information exchange among diverse,
widely-dispersed, mobile users. A primary challenge to MCN is to
deploy and dynamically configure and evolve communication networks
that are dependable, autonomic, secure, adaptive, and rapidly
deployable to support critical missions and their priorities. In
order to operate effectively, the deployed networks should support
services such as location determination of both authorized and
unauthorized entities, quality-of-service aware audio and video
communication, emergency calling and alerting, and in-situ and
remote sensing and control in a secure and dependable manner. In
addition, efficient operation of such networks that typically
include numerous resource-constrained components may benefit from
cross-layer optimization, cognition, resource engineering, on-demand
federation, and service-oriented architecture. Also important is the
integration of MCN with the Internet to reduce cost of deployment
and maintenance and to enhance reachability and ubiquity. This
special issue of the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
solicits high quality technical contributions in mission-critical
networking including, but not limited to:

- Architecture and design of MCN and next-generation emergency calling
and alerting
- Rapidly and dynamically deployable services and networks
- Evolving "elastic" networking with decentralized and peer-to-peer
resource management and allocation
- Federation and policy management for heterogeneous networks and
protocols
- Trust, security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance
awareness and management for MCN
- Sensor and actuator networks for critical information gathering,
tracking and real-time control
- MCN traffic and mobility analysis
- Formal methodology for cognitive, autonomic, and context-aware
protocols and network management
- Spectrum management and access
- Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies

** Paper Submission

Manuscripts should describe original, previously unpublished work,
not currently under review. Argument justifying contribution specific
to the unique features of MCN must be provided. Prospective authors
should follow the IEEE JSAC manuscript format described in the
Information for Authors at:
http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html

Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to
mcn-jsac@criticalnet.org according to the following timetable:

- Manuscript submission: April 1, 2009
- First review notification: August 1, 2009
- Revised manuscript due: October 1, 2009
- Acceptance notification: November 1, 2009
- Final manuscript due: January 2, 2010
- Publication: June, 2010

** Guest Editors

- Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA
- Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland
- Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA
- Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt
- Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA
- Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA
- David Du, National Science Foundation and University of Minnesota, USA