Special Issue on Research Advances and Standardization Activities in WLANs

Computer Communications
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-communications/call-for-papers/research-advances-standardization-activities-wlans/

Scope

A new generation of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) is going to make
its appearance in the upcoming years, with the IEEE 802.11aa (Robust Audio
Video Transport Streaming), IEEE 802.11ac (Very-high throughput < 6GHz),
IEEE 802.11af (TV White Spaces) and IEEE 802.11ad (Very-high throughput ~
60 GHz), as examples of the most expected ones. Nevertheless, all
next-generation standards will consider some of the most significant
advances on the wireless communication and
networking area in the last
decade, developed by a highly active community, in both academia and
industry.

This special issue requests papers that advance the state-of-the-art of the
recent and on-going IEEE 802.11 standards (i.e., IEEE 802.11p, IEEE
802.11s, IEEE 802.11aa, IEEE 802.11ac, IEEE 802.11ad, IEEE 802.11ae, IEEE
802.11ah, IEEE 802.11af, IEEE 802.11ai, etc.), as well as present
mechanisms and solutions, from MAC or above layers, that could be readily
transferred to the not-yet finished standards or their future amendments.
Please, note that pure PHY-layer papers are outside the scope of this
Special Issue, although cross-layer approaches are welcome.

In addition, there is special interest in those papers that provide new
theoretical and/or experimental insights on the performance of the new and
on-going IEEE 802.11 standards in real application scenarios, as well as
propose optimal parameter
configurations to make them work as much
efficiently as possible. Papers proposing, evaluating and comparing
disruptive approaches to the path followed by the IEEE 802.11 standards are
also very much appreciated.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Coexistence mechanisms between IEEE 802.11 and other wireless networks in
unlicensed bands.
Inter-Access point cooperative mechanisms.
Service discovery in WLANs.
Dynamic channel access mechanisms, including cognitive radio techniques and
channel bonding strategies.
Link-layer mechanisms to efficiently operate in the new spectrum bands
(below 1 GHz, TV White Spaces, 60 GHz band, etc.).
Multiple packet transmission and reception techniques.
Packet aggregation mechanisms.
Energy efficient link-layer protocols for multi-service WLANs with
heterogeneous QoS requirements.
Cross-layer Network/MAC techniques for multi-hop networking
and cooperative
relays.
Advanced relaying strategies for MIMO multicell systems.
Mobility support, vehicular networks and networks of mobile objects.
Multimedia home networking, HDTV and video distribution.
Integration of home and city Smart Grids (M2M communications) in WLANs.
Tentative Schedule
Submission deadline: September 15, 2012
Author notification: December 15, 2012
Revised paper due: January 31, 2013
Final author notification: March 15, 2013
Expected publication: 2nd quarter 2013

Guest-editors

Boris Bellalta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Alexey Vinel (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)
Periklis Chatzimisios (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Raffaele Bruno (IIT/CNR, Italy)
Chonggang Wang (InterDigital, USA)

Instructions for submission:

Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under
review by other journals or
conferences.
If the paper was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript should
be a substantial extension of the
conference paper. Authors are also required to submit their published
conference articles and a summary
document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. Papers
must be submitted through the
Computer Communications website at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom, where
guidelines for the manuscript
preparation can also be found. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly
identified for consideration by the
Special Issue, the authors should select "Special Issue: WLANs" when they
reach the “Article Type” step in the
submission process.

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