[Tccc] CfP Special Issue PIK on “Mobile Ad-hoc-Networks”

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Call for Paper
Special Issue PIK (*) on Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
PIK IV/2009 (*)

(*) more information on PIK magazine see bottom of e-mail

Scope of the Special Issue
Recently, mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) researchers show a large
interest in application and application-oriented protocol research.
While the basic organization of routing has been addressed since a
couple of years, more recent activities include auto-configuration,
security and data privacy, integration into hybrid networks, or
efficient use of various resources, such as bandwidth, energy, or
memory. Furthermore, the focus is shifted towards specific environments
like vehicular networks, mesh networks, or wireless sensor networks.
Whereas research on generic MANETs always struggled with unclear
operational conditions, a myriad of protocols and applications is
designed in these specialized areas. However, the goal still must be to
generalize these approaches to provide for broader ranges of MANETs.

It is the goal of this special issue to present approaches and solutions
in a wide variety of MANET-related domains in order to enable this
generalization and transfer ideas between the different areas.

Therefore, this special issue of the PIK magazine covers ongoing
research on the lower radio transmission layer all the way up to the
application layer relevant in MANETs. Furthermore, dedicated application
scenarios, such as vehicle-to-vehicle communications, disaster recovery
or emergency services are of high interest.

Tutorial-style articles in these fields are also solicited, if they
provide a structured introduction and overview of state-of-the-art
technologies, mechanisms, or architectures.

Areas of Interest
Contributions in the following areas are of specific interest but are
not limited to:
• Multi-hop wireless networks
• Infrastructure-less networks
• Mesh networks
• Inter-Vehicular-Communication (IVC, V2X, C2X)
• Wireless sensor networks
• Underwater sensor networks
• Use of cognitive radio
• Use of software defined radio
• Ad-hoc Networking architectures and protocols
• Applications and application scenarios for ad-hoc networks (e.g.
disaster recovery, emergency services, ..)
• Routing mechanisms
• Scalability and simulations
• Energy efficiency
• QoS for ad-hoc networks
• Self-configuration and self-organization in ad-hoc networks
• Auto-configuration and addressing
• Security, privacy, and data protection in ad-hoc networks
• Software platforms (middleware) for mobile applications
• Location-based services and their deployment
• Context management for ad-hoc services
• Pricing models and accounting schemes for commercial ad-hoc services
• Management mechanisms of ad-hoc networks

Important Information
Authors should send their submissions (German or English language) in
PDF format only and by e-mail to Matthias Frank
(matthew@cs.uni-bonn.de). The submission should not exceed 6 pages (one
page of the PIK format equals approximately 6000 characters excluding
figures).

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. In case of an acceptance, the
final and camera-ready version of the article has to take into account
all comments of those reviews received.

Important Dates
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: July 6, 2009
Final Version: September 30, 2009
Publication: PIK issue IV/2009 (publication early January 2010)

Guest Editors
Matthias Frank, Universität Bonn, Germany: <matthew@cs.uni-bonn.de>
Frank Kargl, Universität Ulm, Germany: <frank.kargl@uni-ulm.de>
Burkhard Stiller, Universität Zürich, Switzerland: <stiller@ifi.uzh.ch>

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(*) more information on PIK magazine:

PIK (= German „Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation")
is an English and German speaking periodic magazine appearing four times
a year, published by the section KuVS (= German "Kommunikation und
Verteilte Systeme", http://www.kuvs.de/) of the German Gesellschaft für
Informatik e.V. (http://www.gi-ev.de/english/at-a-glance.html), which is
associated to the ACM German Chapter.

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