-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Last CFP Special issue IEEE TPDS on 'Localized communication and topology protocols for ad hoc networks' Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:25:24 +0100 From: David Simplot-Ryl David.Simplot@lifl.fr To: manet@ietf.org, tccc@cs.columbia.edu, seworld@cs.colorado.edu, tinyos@Millennium.Berkeley.EDU CC: arp@cines.fr, alp-diffusion@univ-lille1.fr

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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Localized communication and topology protocols for ad hoc networks IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Special Issue April Issue of 2006

IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Systems seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Localized Communication and Topology Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks scheduled to appear in the April issue of 2006.

This special issue covers comprehensively the algorithmic issues in the "hot" area of ad hoc and sensor networking. It concentrates on the network layer problems which can be divided into two groups: data communication, and topology control problems. In data communication problems, such as routing, quality-of-service routing, geocasting, multicasting, and broadcasting, the primary goal is to fulfill a given communication task successfully between nodes in ad hoc network. The secondary task is to minimize the communication overhead and power consumption by battery operated nodes. Topology control problems are further subdivided into neighbour discovery and network organization problems. In the neighbour discovery problem, the problem is to detect neighboring nodes located within transmission radius. In the network organization problem, each node should decide what communication links to establish with neighbouring nodes (an example is Bluetooth scatternet formation problem), and what power management schemes to adopt (examples are "sleep" period operations and adjusting transmission radii). Sensor networks are currently recognized as one of the priority research areas and research activities are booming recently. The applications of sensor networks are envisioned primarily for monitoring the environment (e.g. motion detection, chemicals, temperature) or as embedded systems (e.g. biomedical sensor engineering). This special issue will also review ongoing research on this "hot" topic, including problems such as: physical properties, sensor training, security through intelligent node cooperation, medium access, sensor area coverage with random and deterministic placement, object location, sensor position determination, energy efficient broadcasting and activity scheduling, routing, connectivity, data dissemination and gathering, sensor centric quality of routing, path exposure, tree reconfiguration, topology construction, and transport layer.

The main paradigm shift is to apply localized schemes as opposed to existing protocols requiring global information. Localized algorithms are distributed algorithms where simple local node behaviour achieves a desired global objective. Localized protocols provide scalable solutions, that is, solutions for wireless networks with an arbitrary number of nodes, which is the main goal of this plan. Sensor and rooftop/mesh networks, for instance, have hundreds or thousands of nodes.

Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them by clicking on http://www.computer.org/tpds/author_new.htm. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript.

Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. Please feel free to contact the Peer Review Supervisor, Suzanne Werner at swerner@computer.org or the guest editors.

Important dates:

Submission Deadline: February 15, 2005 Reviews Completed: March 29, 2005 Major Revisions Due (if Needed): May 30, 2005 Reviews of Revisions Completed (if Needed): July 14, 2005 Minor Revisions Due (if Needed): August 15, 2005 Notification of Final Acceptance: August 23, 2005 Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: September 9, 2005

GUEST EDITORS

Stephan Olariu Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA olariu@cs.odu.edu http://www.cs.odu.edu/~olariu

David Simplot-Ryl IRCICA/LIFL, University of Lille, INRIA Futurs, France simplot@lifl.fr http://www.lifl.fr/~simplot

Ivan Stojmenovic SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada ivan@site.uottawa.ca http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~ivan

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