-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE Network SI on Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing and Pervasive Services [extended firm deadline: Feb 15] Datum: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 01:17:53 +0800 Von: minchen2012 minchen2012@mail.hust.edu.cn Antwort an: minchen2012 minchen2012@hust.edu.cn An: tccc tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

Please circulate this CFP among your friends/colleagues and mailing lists you have access to, thanks a lot. ======================================================================== Submission Deadline: Feb 15, 2013 (extended firm deadline) Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2013 Publication: September 2013 IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Cloud-Assisted Mobile Computing and Pervasive Services ========================================================================

Advances in mobile communication networks and increasing deployments of mobile smart devices have brought rich mobile experiences to end users. However, further improvement of service quality and large deployment of mobile pervasive services are hampered by resource constraints of mobile devices and bandwidth limitations of wireless networks. Recently, mobile cloud computing is emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm to extend the capabilities of mobile devices and platforms, which, in turn, are changing the industrial production and people's daily life. Developments of innovative pervasive mobile s ervices, e.g., mobile video streaming, rich media dissemination, surveillance, e-gaming, e-health care, etc., can be greatly facilitated by mobile cloud computing platforms employing emerged and emerging technologies. For example, with the support of mobile cloud computing, Body Area Networks (BANs) can be greatly enhanced for the deployment of innovative healthcare monitoring applications with richer multimedia contents, more reliable service quality and more types of convergence services. Moreover, adopting the information-centric and content-centric networking concepts and techniques, BANs are evolving to enable a highly flexible and scalable infrastructure for mobile services assisted by cloud computing. Due to the intrinsically resource-constrained features of typical mobile devices as well as smart sensors, it is essential for the mobile cloud service provider to offer sufficient computational resources and storage capacity support for pervasive services, and also maintain a reliable and capable communication system among the devices. In addition, the dynamic mobile wireless channel environments with limited available bandwidth make it difficult for mobile users to provide consistent and ubiquitous services offered by cloud systems.

Scope of Contributions This special issue is to focus on the issues related to cloud-assisted mobile computing and pervasive services, but are not limited to:

Pervasive e-health, home monitoring, assisted living services by mobile cloud computing Flexible BAN architecture for supporting distributed cloud computing Improvement on mobile content/information-centric networks (CCN and ICN) by clouds Content and information collection and aggregation in pervasive services by clouds Efficient information dissemination in mobile service with cloud computing Mobile content-centric services integrated with Named Data Networks (NDN) Cloud-based mobile audio/video streaming techniques for BANs Scalable live broadcasting for mobile users supported by cloud computing Real-time interactive multimedia service for mobile cloud users Quality of Experience (QoE) studies and improvements for mobile cloud computing Dynamic allocation algorithms for smart devices connected to mobile cloud services New applications for cloud-supported mobile online gaming and other entertainments New convergence services supported by mobile cloud computing techniques Social body area networks combined with mobile cloud computing Mobile cognitive radio networks combined with cloud computing Security in cloud-assisted mobile computing and pervasive services

Manuscript Submission

With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/paper-submission-guidelines. Authors should submit their manuscripts through ScholarOne for IEEE Network Magazine. Choose "Special Issue ― CLOUD-ASSISTED MOBILE COMPUTING AND PERVASIVE SERVICES" from the drop down menu on the submission page.

Guest Editors Victor C.M. Leung (vleung@ece.ub.ca), University of British Columbia, Canada Min Chen (minchen@ieee.org), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Mohsen Guizani (mguizani@ieee.org), Qatar University, Qatar Branka Vucetic (branka.vucetic@sydney.edu.au), University of Sydney, Australia _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc