-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine SI on Device-to-Device (D2D) Communications with Social Awareness Datum: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:44:36 -0600 Von: Qing Yang qing.yang@CS.MONTANA.EDU Antwort an: Qing Yang qing.yang@CS.MONTANA.EDU An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

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 because it can offer a wide variety of advantages over the traditional cellular networks, e.g., higher throughput, efficient spectral usage, extended network coverage, improved energy efficiency, delay and fairness, etc.

Clearly, D2D is a promising technology and thus a major opportunity for cellular network operators. However, D2D communication is also complex in that many technical challenges have to be addressed before it could be widely adopted, such as quality of service (QoS) guarantee, interference management, channel allocation, communication session setup and management, upgrading of existing infrastructures, economic model and pricing, etc. In addition to these challenges, a major issue 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: December 1, 2015 -Initial Decision: February 10, 2016 -Revised Manuscript Due: March 15, 2016 -Notification of Acceptance: April 15, 2016 -Final Manuscript Due: May 10, 2016 -Publication Date: August 2016

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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

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