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CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue of Elsevier Computer Communications on "Adaptive Multicarrier Communications and Networks"

http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom

Scope ===== Authors are invited to submit detailed technical manuscripts reporting recent developments in the topics related to the special issue. Multicarrier communications is a very promising technique to deliver high data rate and combat delay spread over fading channel. OFDM-based multicarrier communications is used in the standards IEEE 802.11 WirelessLAN, IEEE 802.16 WirelessMAN, and 3GPP-LTE Group 4G. Adaptability is an inherent advantage of multicarrier communication systems. It can be either implemented in each layer in the protocol stack or realized through a cross-layer approach. The essential self-x attributes, i.e. self-configuration, self-management, self-healing, in enabling autonomic adaptability are in the early stage of research. In addition, there are a number of emerging technical, economical, and regulatory challenges when the multicarrier system is co-operating with unlicensed systems via a cognitive radio paradigm. This special issue is devoted to exploring how adaptive capability is employed from physical to network and application layers in multicarrier communications, networks, systems, and standards.

Some suggested topics include but are not limited to: ======================================================= . Adaptive coding and modulation . Adaptive signal processing techniques . Multicarrier CDMA/OFDMA . Multiuser interference in cellular systems . Self-configuration, self-management, and self-healing . Autonomic architectures and protocols . Cognitive and adaptive systems . Security and privacy management . Resource, Mobility and QoS provisioning . Cross-layer optimization . MAC and Network layer management . Adaptive multimedia transmission . Cooperation/Game theory for multiuser communications . Network reliability, dependability, and survivability . Network modeling and performance analysis . Multicarrier communications in Broadband Wireless Access, e.g. Cellular and WiMAX . Testbed, experiment, implementation, and applications

Submission Format: ===================== The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom. For more information, please contact the guest editors or Co-Editor-in-Chief, Mohammed Atiquzzaman (atiq@ou.edu )

Guest Editors: ================ Prof. Hsiao Hwa Chen National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Email: hshwchen@ieee.org

Prof. Symeon Papavassiliou National Technical University of Athens, Greece Email: papavass@mail.ntua.gr

Dr. Lingyang Song UniK, University of Oslo, Norway Email: lingyang@unik.no

Dr. Yan Zhang Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Email: yanzhang@ieee.org

Important Dates: ================= Paper submission: 01 April, 2008 Acceptance notification: 01 July, 2008 Final papers: 01 August, 2008 Publication: Fall 2008

Submission Guideline: ======================== All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select "Multicarrier Comm-Zhang" when they reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. The EES website is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom/

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