IEEE Communications Magazine Series on MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
(Publication Date: Periodically)

CALL FOR PAPERS
The next generation of wireless cellular networks will transform mobile communications, from a mere supplier of generic high-speed data connectivity to a flexible provider of super-fast, highly reliable and low-latency communications that are capable of supporting diversified service categories. In order to fulfill the (often stringent) requirements of those services, mobile network designers are required to deploy novel high-performance technologies and solutions at all levels.

The IEEE Communications Magazine’s Mobile Communications and Networks Series selects and publishes in-depth, cutting-edge tutorial articles on state-of-the-art technologies and solutions for mobile wireless systems and networks.

The Series emphasizes novel but practical solutions and emerging topics of interest to industry, academia and government. Articles must be written in clear and concise language and should be suitable for a broad readership, i.e., design engineers, engineering managers, industrial/academic researchers, students, and others. A rigorous peer-review process ensures that only the highest quality articles that fully adhere to the IEEE Communications Magazine publications guidelines are accepted and published.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in all topics within the scope of this Series including, but not limited to, the following:

- Mobile Wireless Systems and Their Architecture:

    Mobile cellular systems of 4th & 5th generation, IEEE 802.11 WLAN (Wi-Fi®), Bluetooth, WWAN
    Mobile ad hoc networks – topology control, neighborhood discovery, networking protocols, security
    Dynamic spectrum access networks – cognitive radios, spectrum sharing techniques, standards, and protocols
    Mobile communication in extreme environments – congestions, disruptions, disconnections, delay tolerant and opportunistic networking approaches
    Non-terrestrial mobile networks (e.g., based on high-altitude platforms and/or satellites)
    Millimeter wave (mmWave) air interfaces, networks and protocols
    Mobile devices – architectures, applications, performance, energy, and security
    Full duplex communications – hardware architectures, interference cancellation, medium access control and networking protocols
    Air-interface architectural aspects such as framing, waveforms and their numerologies, duplexing, multiple access, synchronization, beam-forming, multi-point transmission
    Carrier aggregation and multi-cell connectivity, multi-Radio Access Technology (RAT) connectivity
    Coexistence of multiple radio technologies, joint operation in licensed/unlicensed bands
    Air interfaces and infrastructure for networks of resource-constrained and autonomous wireless devices – applications, protocols, operation and performance
    Spatial location and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies
    Radio navigation networks (GPS, Glonass, Galileo, BDS)

- Mobile Networking Procedures and Algorithms:

    Signal processing and coding techniques for mobile applications (e.g. speech/video coding, haptic codecs, coding for augmented/virtual reality applications)
    Wireless networking protocols, including encryption and error protection
    Multi-antenna techniques: MIMO precoding, massive MIMO, beam-forming, beam acquisition and tracking/maintenance
    Network slicing & orchestration impact on the lower layers of wireless networks
    Channel estimation
    Radio resource management
    Mobility procedures
    Learning algorithms for mobile wireless systems
    Mobile network security, including secure learning systems
    Physical layer security

- Performance Evaluation, Testing and Measurement:

    Mobile communication channels characterization and modeling
    Test and measurement of wireless systems and air interfaces
    Mobile network security monitoring and telemetry
    Mobile link/system/network test-beds and demonstrators, field trials
    Simulation and modeling of mobile networks – applications, protocols, handoffs

- Emerging Topics:

    Mobile edge computing (MEC)
    Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT)
    Terahertz communications
    Cyber-Physical Networks

A complete list of topics and the submission guidelines are available at https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-communications-magazine/cfp/mobile-communications-and-networks

SERIES EDITORS
Tom Alexander, Uplevel Systems, Inc.
talex1962@gmail.com
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
wmazurczyk@tele.pw.edu.pl
Amitabh Mishra, Johns Hopkins University
amitabh@cs.jhu.edu
Alberto Perotti, Huawei Technologies
alberto.perotti@ieee.org
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