CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of International Journal of Network Management on
Quality of Service Management in Emerging Wireless Networks
http://paws.kettering.edu/~cwu/qos-si-ijnm.html
Publication: Fall 2011
Quality of service of wireless networks refers to the collective service
performances with respect to the user expectation and the network
configuration. Over the years, the wireless networks have not only expanded
in their sizes, such as geographical area and number of nodes, but also in
the variety of services, users, and deployment environments. Small mobile
devices, such as smart phones, that allow instantaneous high speed
information access and data processing have radically changed the way of our
living.
Moreover, the development of ad-hoc networks allows the easy formation of
wireless networks for information sharing and data gathering. Due to
various factors, wireless networks are constantly changing. For example, the
service pattern, workload, available resources (power supply, bandwidth,
beacons,
nodes etc.) are not fixed. Therefore, it is important to be able to access
and manage the quality of services for ensuring the optimal performance of
the networks. There are basically two aspects to QoS study in wireless
networks. One aspect is accessing and diagnosing the status of the networks
and evaluating the current level of service quality. The other aspect is to
study the network design to handle the changing factors of the networks so
that the quality of service is optimized under the constraint of the
available resources and service pattern. The quality of service management
and diagnosis of a network is closely related to wide range of fundamental
issues such as network topology, routing protocols, resource allocation,
communication layer, and working environments etc. The contributed papers
will study both practical and theoretical models and algorithms for
ensuring the high quality of service in wireless networks and the approaches
for
quality of service evaluation and diagnosis.
This special issue of the International Journal of Network Management is
seeking new and unpublished contributions addressing issues in Quality
of Service Management in Emerging Wireless Networks including, but not
limited to:
* Fault diagnosis
* Diagnosis middleware
* Reconfigurable networks
* Performance evaluation
* QoS evaluation model
* Self-healing networks
* Adaptable resource management
* Network simulation platforms
* QoS-oriented network planning
* QoS-based routing protocols
* Data management
* Mobility management
* Security and privacy
Papers describing current research and practice are solicited.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions: January 1st, 2011
Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2011
Camera ready: June 1st, 2011
Publication of special issue: Fall, 2011
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Papers submitted to this journal for possible publication must be
original and must not be under consideration for publication in
any other journals. Submissions of both in-depth research papers and
review/application-oriented papers are encouraged.
Manuscripts for the special issue should be emailed to the guest editors (
emails shown below) in PDF format with the email subject "QoS Management
Special Issue - Paper Submission".
GUEST EDITORs:
Yu Wang
Department of Computer Science
Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
Email: yu.wang@uncc.edu
Changhua Wu
Department of Computer Science
Kettering University
Flint, MI 48084,USA
Email: cwu@kettering.edu
Xiaowen Chu
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Email: chxw@comp.hkbu.edu.hk
Further information on the journal, including author guidelines, are
Available at the journal homepage:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1190
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