2010-05-13

[Tccc] Ad Hoc Networks Journal - Special Issue on MODELS AND ALGORITHMS FOR WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal

Special Issue on

MODELS AND ALGORITHMS FOR WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS

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GUEST EDITORS

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Matteo Cesana

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

cesana@elet.polimi.it

Xiaojun Lin

Purdue University, US

linx@ecn.purdue.edu

Ness Shroff

Ohio State University, US

shroff@ece.osu.edu

Qian Zhang

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

qianzh@cse.ust.hk

SCOPE

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The increasing demand of wire-free connectivity has been driving the
development of new and easy-to-deploy wireless networking solutions. Within
this field, Wireless Mesh networks (WMNs) are envisioned to provide an
effective solution for several services and applications domains, such as
community networks and municipal networks. On the other hand, WMN
deployments pose several challenges to the network designers and operators.
First, WMNs often feature large scales in terms of the number of network
devices, users, and services to be supported, and in terms of their
geographical dimensions. Further, communication support in WMNs is carried
out through the "cooperation" of wireless devices in a multi-hop manner, and
it requires different algorithms and protocols (medium access control,
routing, transport) that interact in a nontrivial manner. The network
designers and operators often do not have complete control over the
environment, and hence WMNs must be able to self-configure and adapt to
unpredictable changes automatically. Such distinctive features and
intrinsic complexity of WMNs call for a deeper understanding on the
fundamental principles governing these networks. To this extent, the design,
analysis and deployment of WMNs require quantitative methods to
plan/optimize the network structure, to assess the network performances
(e.g., in terms of, throughput, delay and energy consumption), as well as to
steer the design of low-complexity centralized/distributed algorithms and
communication protocols.

The purpose of this special issue is to collect papers on cutting-edge
research about the theoretical foundations of wireless mesh networking.
Contributions are solicited within the two broad fields of performance
evaluation and algorithm design for WMNs. The submitted paper must have a
consistent analytical and theoretical flavor. Experimental contributions
fall outside the scope of the special issue. Contributions with experimental
performance evaluation only fall outside the scope of the special issue.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

+ Throughput, capacity, and delay analysis for WMNs

+ Geometric and non-geometric models and bounds for WMNs

+ Spatial Stochastic Models for WMNs

+ Information theoretic analysis for WMNs

+ Scaling Laws for WMNs

+ Optimization models/algorithms for planning and radio resource management
in WMNs

+ Power-aware and energy-efficient algorithms for WMNs

+ Centralized/Distributed algorithms for Radio Resource Management in WMNs

+ Centralized and Distributed algorithms for network management

+ Traffic Models in WMNs

+ Complexity analysis of algorithms for WMNs

+ Clustering and cooperative strategies for WMNs

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

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The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original
research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals
or conferences. All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be
submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES) located at:
http://ees.elsevier.com/adhoc/

Please follow the Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) journal manuscript format
described at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc

To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into
the special issue, it is important that authors select "Special Issue: WMNs
Modeling" when they reach the "Article Type".

IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission deadline: August 30, 2010

Acceptance notification: November 20, 2010

Final Papers: December 30, 2010

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