CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Communications Magazine
Feature Topic on Disaster Resilience in Communication Networks


*Aims and Scope*

Society's increasing dependence on communication networks, the Internet 
and their services is evident from the wide range of activities that use
electronic media, from entertainment to critical operations related to
commerce, finance and life care. Humanity relies on the Internet to 
access information, obtain services, manage finances, and communicate 
with others.
Businesses use the Internet to transact commerce with consumers and 
other businesses. Governments depend on communication networks for their 
daily operation and service delivery. The military depends on the Global 
Information Grid to execute network centric operations and warfare. 
Hence, in addition to transportation-infrastructure, power-generation, 
and distribution-grid
public/private networks, the Internet and other 
publicly accessible communication networks are today critical 
infrastructures upon which our lives and prosperity depend.

Given this dependence, vulnerabilities of communication networks and the
Internet can significantly impact our lives. The dependence on
communication networks and the Internet makes them an attractive target 
for attacks and intrusions attempting to either obtain information or 
disrupt service of individuals, businesses, government and military. 
These networks and services are also susceptible to accidents, faults or 
natural disasters that can disrupt service. Examples of natural 
disasters that compromised the network infrastructure are the hurricanes 
Sandy and Katrina.

In the face of these difficulties, the need for greater resilience has
been recognized for wireline and wireless networks and for the Internet.
Resilience has
classically been defined as the ability of the network to
provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of 
faults, accidents, attacks and natural disasters. This subject has 
attracted the attention of researchers, industry and governments around 
the world. Today, resilience can be considered an essential 
characteristic in the design and operation of networks to withstand the 
intrusions described above.
Furthermore, we must now expand resilience to include new requirements,
such as scalability, dynamic and opportunistic topologies, and global
interoperation and interdependence among networks.

This feature topic call-for-papers solicits recent, relevant works 
related to disaster resilience, especially in emerging networks. The 
main goal is to provide for the *IEEE Communications Magazine *an 
overview of the state-of-the-art of resilience, and to identify the new 
challenges from
emerging network infrastructures in terms of 
scalability, heterogeneity, and dynamicity. Works addressing resilience 
issues in the context of new communication technologies, such as 
software-defined networks, cognitive radio and emerging optical 
technologies are of particular interest.


*Topics*

Articles describing original research and development as well as survey
articles related to disaster resilience are solicited. The topics to be
covered by this feature topic include, but are not limited to:

* Disaster resilience for the following technologies:

    - LTE, LTE-A, 4G, Small Cells, femto-cells
    - Heterogeneous wireless networks
    - Access Networks
    - Flexible Optical Networks
    - Overlay and multi-layer networks
    - Virtualized Networks
    - Software-Defined Networks (SDN)
    - Datacenters, Cloud infrastructures, Networks for Big Data
    -
Smart Grids, M2M
    - Green networks

* Disaster resilience approaches coping with:

    - Mitigation and reconstruction of network infrastructure
    - Management for post disaster network infrastructure reconstruction
    - Network infrastructure adaptive capacity
    - Disaster risk reduction
    - Risk management and sustainability
    - Community and social engagement in providing communication
      infrastructure in disaster situation
    - Knowledge management and integration
    - Public policy and governance to build disaster resilient smart cities
    - Energy efficiency


*Submission Guidelines*

Articles should be tutorial in nature and written in a style 
comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Authors 
must follow the *IEEE Communications Magazine*’s guidelines for 
preparation of the manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective

authors can be found at
http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. It is very
important to note that the *IEEE Communications Magazine* strongly 
limits mathematical content, the number of figures and tables, and the 
number of references.  Paper length should not exceed 4,500 words.  All 
articles to be considered for publication must be submitted through the 
IEEE Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee) by 
the deadline.
Select “October 2014/Disaster Resilience” as the submission category.


*Important Dates*

Manuscript Submission Due: February 1, 2014
Acceptance Notification:   June 1, 2014
Final Manuscript Due:      August 1, 2014
Publication:               October 2014


*Guest Editors*

Michele
Nogueira, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Deep Medhi, University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA
Robert Doverspike, AT&T Labs Research, USA


*Further Information*
http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag1014.html


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