-------- Original Message -------- Subject: CFP, deadline approaching - Special Issue on Cooperation in Wireless Networks - Springer, Wireless Personal Communications Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:37:43 +0200 From: Antonella Molinaro molinaro@deis.unical.it To: multicomm@comsoc.org

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This is a reminder that the submission deadline for the Special Issue on "Cooperation in Wireless Networks" Springer, Wireless Personal Communications, is rapidly approaching (*October 1st*).

The call for papers can be found at _http://kom.aau.dk/~ff/CfPCoNet.html

_SCOPE OF SPECIAL ISSUE Cooperation between devices in wireless networks has been identified as one of the key technology enablers required to facilitate next generation wireless communication systems. Much of the existing research in wireless networking assumes a communication between one sender and one or multiple receiver(s). For reasons of self-interest, users may however allow terminals to engage in cooperative behavior, resulting in improved overall network performance. For cooperation, terminals will connect to each other using a short range communication link and simultaneously being connected to the centralized access point. This configuration allows many forms of cooperation. For this special issue, we distinguish between altruism and cooperation by requiring that cooperation benefit each entity involved. From this perspective, pure relaying is an example of altruism and not cooperation. Cooperation is not limited to a single ISO/OSI protocol layer, but can be addressed across multiple protocol layers. The focus of this call is to solicit novel papers addressing cooperation over all protocol layers from physical to application layer.

SUBMISSION AND IMPORTANT DATES Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced) and not exceed twenty pages including figures and tables. Original papers should be send by submission deadline to *cooperation@kom.aau.dk

*Submission deadline 1st October 2005 Notification 15th January 2006 Final version 15th February 2006 Planed Issue 2nd half 2006

TOPICS OF INTEREST Original papers are invited in the area of cooperation in wireless networks. Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas of cooperative wireless networks: Architectural Principles Multi–Access Capability Network Coding Radio Access Technologies Cooperative Processing Resource Management Distributed Radio Cooperative Channel Coding Heterogenous Networks Terminal design Self–organizing networks Cognitive Networks Middle-Ware Grid–Computing Source coding for cooperation Cooperating Services

GUEST EDITORS Frank H.P. Fitzek, Aalborg University, Denmark, ff@kom.aau.dk Mischa Dohler, France Telecom R&D, mischa.dohler@francetelecom.com Ian Opperman, CWC, Oulu, Finland, ian@ee.oulu.fi Antonella Molinaro, University ”Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy, antmolin@ing.unirc.it Marcos Katz, SAMSUNG, Korea, marcos.katz@samsung.com Christian Bettstetter, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany, bettstetter@docomolab-euro.com