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EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special Issue on Fairness in Radio Resource Management for Wireless Networks.

Call for Papers (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/si/fair-rrm.html)

Radio resource management (RRM) techniques (such as admission control, scheduling, sub-carrier allocation, channel assignment, power allocation, and rate control) are essential for maximizing the resource utilization and providing quality of service (QoS) in wireless networks. In many cases, the performance metrics (e.g., overall throughput) can be optimized if opportunistic algorithms are employed. However, opportunistic RRM techniques always favor advantaged users who have good channel conditions and/or low interference levels. The problem becomes even worse when the wireless terminals have low mobility since the channel conditions become slowly varying (or even static), which might lead to long-term unfairness.

The problem of fair resource allocation is more challenging in multihop wireless networks (e.g., mesh and multihop cellular networks). The performance fairness can be introduced as one of the QoS requirements (e.g., as a condition on the minimum throughput per user). Fair RRM schemes might penalize advantaged users; hence, there should be a tradeoff between the overall system performance and the fairness requirements.

We are soliciting high-quality unpublished research papers addressing the problem of fairness of RRM techniques in wireless communication systems. Topics include (but are not limited to):

ò Fairness of scheduling schemes in wireless networks ò Tradeoff between maximizing the overall throughput and achieving throughput fairness ò RRM fairness: problem definition and solution techniques ò Fairness performance in emerging wireless systems (WiMAX, ad hoc networks, mesh networks, etc.) ò Cross-layer RRM design with fairness ò Short-term and long-term fairness requirements ò Adaptive RRM to support fairness ò Fairness in cooperative wireless communications ò Issues and approaches for achieving fairness in multihop wireless networks ò RRM framework and QoS architecture ò Complexity and scalability issues ò Experimental and implementation results and issues ò Fairness in multiple-antenna transmission/reception systems ò Fairness in end-to-end QoS provisioning

Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/.

Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due July 1, 2008 First Round of Reviews October 1, 2008 Publication Date January 1, 2009

Guest Editors

Mohamed Hossam Ahmed, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. JohnÆs, NF, Canada A1B 3V6; mhahmed@engr.mun.ca

Alagan Anpalagan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 2C5; alagan@ee.ryerson.ca

Kwang-Cheng Chen, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; chenkc@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw

Zhu Han, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Boise State University Boise, Idaho, USA; zhuhan@boisestate.edu

EkramHossain, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba,Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2; ekram@ee.umanitoba.ca

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