CALL FOR PAPERS

In recent years, high data rate applications have become more and more popular
in cellular network, e.g. video calls, interactive gaming, and mobile
social networking.
To efficiently facilitate more high data rate services among nearby users
and devices, device-to-device (D2D) communication has been proposed and has
attracted significant attention in both the academia and the industry.

A major issue in D2D communication is to understand the impact of the
social networks.
Since mobile devices are typically used and carried by people, a
natural question
one may ask is: “What are the benefits of considering human’s
social relations in D2D communication?” For example, when a person is at
work, he might exploit his social connections to nearby co-workers to
improve the quality of D2D communications, e.g., by asking the most trustful
user/device to relay his
network traffic. When there is no trustworthy
friend in the vicinity, he might negotiate with nearby users/strangers to
achieve cooperative D2D communication by offering
relay assistance to each other. Such mutually beneficial actions will also
help expand this person’s social network.

Topics of interests include (but are not limited to) the following
categories:

-Social-aware device discovery in D2D technology
-LTE-A SAE architecture for social-aware D2D technology
-Social-aware security mechanism for D2D networks
-Social-aware D2D for public safety
-Social-aware D2D for vehicular communication
-Social-aware/application-ware frequency reuse and spectrum sharing for D2D
 communication
-Social-aware protocols for D2D communication
-Social-aware/application-ware power and interference management
-Social aware resource allocation and optimization for D2D
-Social-aware neighbor discovery
and link maintenance
-Crowdsourcing in D2D networks
-Trust and reputations in D2D networks
-Cognitive and cooperative D2D communication
-Social-aware routing protocols for multi-hop D2D networks
-Social-aware apps for D2D communication
-E-health with D2D communication

IMPORTANT DATES

-Manuscript Submission: Jan 1, 2016
-Initial Decision: February 15, 2016
-Revised Manuscript Due: March 15, 2016
-Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2016
-Final Manuscript Due: May 10, 2016
-Publication Date: August 2016

SUBMISSION

Prospective authors should prepare their submissions in accordance
with the rules specified in the Information for Authors of the IEEE
Wireless Communications guidelines
(http://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag/author-guidelines). Authors should
submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript
to
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. The timetable is as follows

GUEST EDITORS

Qing Yang
Montana State University
qing.yang@cs.montana.edu

Kejie Lu
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

Vincenzo Mancuso
IMDEA Networks

Chan-Hyun Youn
KAIST

-- 
Qing Yang, Ph.D.
RightNow Technologies Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 59717
Tel: (406) 994-3547


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