Call for Papers
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Cooperative Networking
Challenges and Applications
Cooperative networking has received significant attention recently as an
emerging network design strategy for future wireless networks. In
cooperative networking, individual network nodes can cooperate to implement
network goals in a coordinated way, and the cooperation can take place in a
cross-layer fashion. Successful cooperative networking can prompt the
development of advanced wireless networks to cost-effectively provide
multimedia services and applications such as telecommuting, video
conferencing, interactive media, real-time Internet games, etc., anytime,
anywhere. However, the impact and challenges of cooperative networking on
the cross-layer design beyond cooperative transmissions are not
well-understood yet. Some fundamental aspects requiring immediate studies
include: theoretical tools to guide the design of cooperative networking
systems, effective incentive mechanisms for cooperation, new protocol
design for cooperative networking, and compatible deployment of cooperative
networking over the existing infrastructure.
This special issue aims at reporting the state-of-the-art research and
development on cooperative networking. Original, unpublished contributions
and invited articles, reflecting various aspects of cooperative networking
are encouraged. The topics of interest for the special issue include, but
are not limited to:
* MAC/link layer issues such as adaptive access connection and scheduling;
* Cooperative routing at the network layer, transport layer issues such as
multi-homing transport layer protocols, end-to-end flow and congestion
control;
* Application layer such as peer-to-peer system design over cooperative
networks;
* Cross layer design and optimization, and heterogeneous QoS provisioning;
* Topology control and mobility management;
* Resource management;
* Security support to complement/enhance cooperative networking;
* Information theoretic aspects, asymptotic performance analysis, coding
schemes and scaling law;
* System modeling and experimental study such as those in cellular network,
vehicular network, femtocell, and ad hoc/mesh network;
* System level topics such as incentive for cooperation, and economics
issues related to cooperative networks.
Prospective authors should prepare their manuscripts in accordance with the
IEEE J-SAC format described at
http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html
Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to
http://www.edas.info. The timetable is as follows:
* Manuscript submission: February 1, 2011
* First reviews complete: June 1, 2011
* Second reviews complete/all acceptance letters sent: August 1, 2011
* Materials to publisher: October 1, 2011
* Publication: 1st Quarter 2012
The Guest Editors for this issue are:
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Qian Zhang, qianzh@cse.ust.hk
P.R. Kumar, prkumar@uiuc.edu
Are Hjxrungnes, arehj@unik.no
Zhu Han, zhan2@mail.uh.edu
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