[Tccc] Wiley I. J. of Comm. Systems Special Issue CfP: Interdisciplinary and Cross-layer Design of Mobile Social Networks and Wireless Networks

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Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS)
Special Issue on
"Interdisciplinary and Cross-layer Design of Mobile Social Networks and Wireless Networks"

Social Networks have attracted billions of active users under major online social network systems
such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, DouBan, etc. Nowadays these social networks are increasingly
used on mobile devices thus rendering a new research field of mobile social networks. The marriage
of current wired-network-based social networks with mobile wireless networks triggers exciting new
research areas. For instance, knowing the network features such as throughput and delay can help
mobile social networks select a contact (e.g., a job advice centre) to which the network route has
the best performance. This leads to the so-called wireless-aware social networks and the problem
domain is within social networks. On the other hand, there is also social-aware or social inspired
wireless network research where the knowledge of social network users is exploited for the benefit
of wireless network design. Therefore, a cross-layer design that incorporates both the upper-layer
mobile social networks and the lower-layer wireless networks is needed. And this comprises the
thematic essence of this Special Issue.

This cross-layer design method calls for a novel interdisciplinary research thinking that embraces
not only these disciplines that are closely related to the field such as computer science, social
science and network/communication engineering but also other subjects such as biology, physics, etc. The goal of this SI is to solicit the state-of-the-art approaches and technical solutions that embark on the above interdisciplinary and cross-layer design methodologies to design and implement a better-performed mobile social network or wireless network. The topics of interest include, but limited to, the following:

Group 1: Network-aware Mobile Social Networks
*) Implications, opportunities and challenges of mobile social networks caused by mobile wireless networks
*) Network-aware modelling, design and development of mobile social networks
*) Network-aware social search, data collection, processing, ranking and recommendation
*) Network-aware middleware, framework for mobile social networks
*) Network-aware real-world applications, services, systems of mobile social networks
*) Experimental results or trials of network-aware mobile social networks
*) New aspects of security, privacy and trust in mobile wireless networks

Group 2: Wireless Networks that are aware of social network knowledge
*) Implications, opportunities and challenges of mobile wireless networks caused by social networks
*) Social-aware modelling of mobile wireless networks, planning, protocol design and deployment
*) Community based mobility model, handoff management
*) Applying social network theories into wireless network problem solving
*) Optimal and scalable distribution of dynamic content (such as news or traffic information) over mobile social networks
*) New social-aware/inspired wireless content distribution networks
*) Network security protocols/algorithms design using social data

Notes for Authors
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Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submitting papers can be found following the web link below:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117946196/grouphome/ForAuthors.html

Go to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijcs and select SI category when making paper submission.

Guest Editors:
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Dr. Kun Yang: University of Essex, UK. kunyang@essex.ac.uk
Prof. Xueqi Cheng: Institute of Computer Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, China. cxq@ict.ac.cn
Dr. Giovanni Pau: University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA gpau@cs.ucla.edu

Important Dates
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Manuscript Submission Due March 01, 2010
Acceptance Notification May 15, 2010
Final Manuscript Due June 15, 2010
Tentative Publication Date Early 2011

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