-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] CFP: SI for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Datum: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 22:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Von: Lin Cai cai@ECE.UVic.CA An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine User Cooperation for Wireless Networks

As the wireless communication channel is shared in nature, user cooperation is a key enabling tool to exploit the spatial multiplexing and diversity gains to improve spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks. User cooperation can take many forms, including the physical layer cooperative communications, the link layer cooperative and cognitive medium access, the network layer cooperative routing and load balancing, the collaborative end-to-end congestion control, and the cooperative peer-to-peer services, etc. The development and optimization of cooperation technologies requires inter-disciplinary efforts, from advanced signal processing and communication to network protocol design and optimization. It also sparks theoretical breakthroughs in topology control, nonlinear optimization, signal processing and complex networks, and stimulates practical advances in mobile communications and networking technologies, devices and platforms. This special issue is to dissemina! te the state-of-the-art results in this fast-moving research area, and to bring together experts from different disciplines, with the goal of fostering interactions among them to promote further research interests and activities to develop new user cooperation technologies for wireless networks. Specifically, this special issue targets (but is not limited to) the following aspects: - Topology control for user cooperation - Cooperative and topology-aware communications and relay - Cooperative and cognitive medium access control and scheduling - Cooperation and coordination among heterogeneous wireless networks - Cooperative routing - Collaborative end-to-end congestion control - User cooperation in peer-to-peer systems - Cross-layer design and optimization for user cooperation - Security support and incentive schemes to encourage user cooperation - Cooperative mobile social networking - Testbed and prototype for cooperative networks

Authors should submit manuscripts electronically in PDF format with a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, authors with affiliations, and a 250-word abstract via email to Lin Cai (cai@ece.uvic.ca). To enforce the double blind reviewing policy, authors' names and affiliations can only appear in the separate cover letter. The "Subject field" of the email must contain "IEEE WCM UCWN Paper". Articles should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and the abstract should have no more than 250 words. With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines that can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html.

Important dates: Manuscript Submission: October 1, 2011 Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: March 1, 2012 Publication: June 2012

Guest Editors: Dr. Lin Cai, University of Victoria (Canada) Dr. Romano Fantacci, University of Florence (Italy) Dr. Nei Kato, Tohoku University (Japan) Dr. Pan Li, Mississippi State University (USA) _______________________________________________ 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