[Tccc] IJCNDS Special Issue on Scalable Wireless Networks

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Call For Papers

Special Issue on
"Scalable Wireless Networks"
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1179

International Journal of Communication Networks and
Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?
journalCODE=ijcnds

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Aims and Scope:
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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:
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Original, unpublished contributions addressing application and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:
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Paper submission due: October 1, 2009
Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2010
Camera-ready version due: March 1, 2010

Submissions:
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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 9 1/2" x 6 1/2" 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 by at least three experts
based on the
correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and
quality of
presentation through a peer review process.

Authors have to send a copy of the manuscript in the form of a PDF
file attached
to an e-mail with the subject "IJCNDS Special Issue on Scalable
Wireless Networks"
to the following:
Dr. Marcello Caleffi
Department of Biomedical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering
University of Naples Federico II
E-mail: marcello.caleffi@unina.it
With a copy to:
Editorial Office
E-mail: editorial@inderscience.com

Guest Editors:
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Luigi Paura and Marcello Caleffi, University of Naples Federico II

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Marcello Caleffi
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Biomedica,
Elettronica, e delle Telecomunicazioni (DIBET)
Università di Napoli "Federico II"
via Claudio 21 - 80125 Napoli (IT)
Tel +39-(0)81-7683810. Fax +39-(0)81-7683149

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