-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: Special Journal Issue on Group Communications in Ad hoc Networks Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 23:12:33 -0400 From: Duc.Tran@notes.udayton.edu To: P2P@LISTSERV.UTK.EDU, manet@ietf.org, tccc@cs.columbia.edu

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Special Issue on Group Communications in Ad hoc Networks International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC)

http://academic.udayton.edu/DucTran/research/cfpIJWMC.htm

ISSN (PRINT): 1741-1084 ISSN (ONLINE): 1741-1092 Published by Inderscience Publishers

Important Dates Manuscript submission deadline: June 10th, 2004 Notification due date: September 10th, 2004 Camera-ready manuscript due date: November 1st, 2004 Publication: Issue 3, 2005

Guest Editors Dr. Duc A. Tran (duc.tran@notes.udayton.edu) Department of Computer Science University of Dayton 300 College Park Dayton, OH 45429

Dr. Deb A. Agarwal (daagarwal@lbl.gov) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road, MS 50B-2239 Berkeley, CA 94720

Dr. Mark D. Yarvis (mark.d.yarvis@intel.com) Intel Research and Development Intel Corporation, JF3-206 2111 N.E. 25th Ave. Hillsboro, OR 97124-5961

Subject Coverage

Since people frequently work beyond their office desk, it is expected that the next generation of communication networks will include rapid deployments of independent mobile users. With the emergence of wireless technologies such as IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth, mobile users are enabled to connect to each other directly and wirelessly without any networking infrastructure, such as the Internet or infrastructure-based wireless networks. Instead, users form mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). These networks are self-configurable and self-healable, and therefore easily adopted in a home environment and more cheaply deployed and maintained in a business environment.

While ad hoc networks are rapidly gaining in popularity, group communication technologies have already shown their importance in education, entertainment, business, military, and other industries. However, thus far those technologies have mainly been designed for use in the Internet. This special journal issue is focused on development of group communication solutions in ad hoc networks. This work is significant to many interesting applications. Examples are strategic collaboration among soldiers in a battlefield, collaborative data processing such as tracking and localization in sensor networks, collaborative intrusion detection among a group of distant surveillance cameras, to name just a few. Also relevant to ad hoc networks is the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P). P2P networks are commonly used in the Internet to enable services that leverage a collection of peer nodes rather than a single infrastructure server, making them resilient to the failure of an individual node. These properties are attractive for applications deployed in ad hoc wireless networks, which have similar requirements.

Research on group communications in ad hoc networks is still in its infancy. There are many open issues due to the deviation between resource, energy, and bandwidth availability of ad hoc networks and the quality of service required by group communication services. Areas of interest for this special journal issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Ad hoc networking architectures with inherent P2P communication support - Use of P2P technology for ad hoc network formation and management - Multicast routing in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks - Algorithms for reliable delivery and congestion control in ad hoc networks - Location and mobility management in ad hoc group communications - Algorithms for self-configuration, maintenance, and stabilization - Data management, operating system, and middleware for ad hoc group communications - Security and privacy in ad hoc group communications - Collaborative multimedia systems in ad hoc networks - Collaborative signal processing and information retrieval in ad hoc networks - Innovative applications of group communication in ad hoc networks

Paper Submission Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. Please submit full papers in PDF via email to one of the guest editors. Submitted papers must not be previously published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers will not exceed 6000 words or 15 single spaced pages in IEEE Transactions style. Hard copies should only be sent if electronic submission is not possible. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a selected panel of referees. Original artwork and a signed copy of the copyright release form will be required for all

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