-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] [CFP]Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine on "Wireless Communications in Networked Robotics" Datum: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:33:51 +0900 Von: Jung-Min Park millfron@yonsei.ac.kr An: TCCC tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

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Call for Papers

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

Special Issue on:

Wireless Communications in Networked Robotics

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Background:

Wireless communication has been a key driving force in recent years both in academia

and in industry. It has currently expanded to wireless multihop networks, which include

ad hoc radio networks, sensor networks, wireless mesh networks and mobile multihop

relay systems. With multihop capability, wireless communication can be combined with

cooperative communications and network coding, which has attracted even more researchers

to this field. In many wireless multihop networks, the merits of capacity enhancement

as well as coverage exceed the delay caused by multihop relay. Still, however, there are

unresolved issues that may not be necessarily technical; one question regards the real

motivation of a relay node that allows packet relay for the other transmitting nodes by

consuming its own energy. There is also a security issue in multihop communications,

in the sense that one's own data transmission is received by someone else in close

proximity.

On the other hand, in the networked robotics area, researchers try to realize group

behaviors found in small insects or animals, in order to control and coordinate a team

of robots. Especially, real-time wireless communication can help dynamic resource

management and self-organization for a team of cooperative robots. The multiple robots

communicate with each other, sharing the same mission, naturally through wireless

communications. In this respect, wireless communication is an excellent candidate for

inter-robot information exchange.

This special issue is an attempt to bridge these two dynamic areas. We welcome

submissions on all aspects of these themes, which include (but are not limited to)

the following topics:

- Communication architecture for collaborative robot systems

- Biologically inspired swarm robotics with networking functionality

- Multiple robot networking with mutihop- and cooperative communications

- Network coding and wireless relay technologies for cooperative robotics

- Applications of multi-robot network systems

- Ad hoc robot networks

- Cognitive communication technologies for inter-robot team work

- Exploiting robot mobility in wireless relay networks

- QoS support and resource management in networked robotics

- Wireless networks under node mobility

Manuscript Submission

With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective

contributors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines at

http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Submitted papers must be original

and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors

should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via email to slkim@yonsei.ac.kr.

Important Dates:

- Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2008

- Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2008

- Final manuscript Due: November 15, 2008

- Publication date: February, 2009

Guest Editors:

- Seong-Lyun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (slkim AT yonsei.ac.kr)

- Jean-Yves Le Boudec, EPFL, Switzerland (jean-yves.leboudec AT epfl.ch)

- Wolfram Burgard, Univ. Freiburg, Germany (burgard AT informatik.uni-freiburg.de)

- DaeEun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea (daeeun AT yonsei.ac.kr)

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