-------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht -------- Von: Muhammad Khalil Afzal muhammad.khalil.afzal@GMAIL.COM Gesendet: 3. Oktober 2017 08:06:00 MESZ An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP: Springer JAIHC, Special Issues on "Cross-layer Design Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Future Intelligent Heterogeneous Networks"

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Special Issues on "Cross-layer Design Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Future Intelligent Heterogeneous Networks" Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (JAIHC), Springer

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The concept and operations of data communication are based on the integration of various heterogeneous wireless networks such as mobile communication networks (3G/4G/LTE/5G), wireless sensor networks (WSNs), wireless local area networks (WLANs), wireless mesh networks (WMNs), wireless body area networks (WBANs), etc.. These wireless networks are providing backbone of future generation communication technologies. Unique characteristics of wireless networks such as mobility, high error rates, and multipath propagations bring the new challenges to traditional TCP/IP-based protocol stack which was developed mainly for wired networks. The unexpected packet losses in wireless networks significantly degrade the networks’ performances. On the other hand, quality of service (QoS) is another challenge for the wireless networks which enable users to share multimedia data while moving in real time. For the efficient and controlled communications in the future generation networks, it is very important to design and develop smart and state-of-the-art algorithms. Even though the protocol architecture traditionally follows strict layering principle, the lack of coordination among the layers rather limits the performances of wireless networks. The optimization cross over various key network parameters including energy efficiency, mobility management, security, cooperation, and quality of service (QoS) is essential issue for the future wireless networks and the solution of it might be cross-layer design. The core idea of the cross- layer design is not only to maintain the functionalities associated to the conventional original layers, but also to allow coordination, integration, and joint optimization of protocols. The goal of this special issue is to solicit the state-of-the-art and novel protocols and methodologies that embark on cross-layer design, issue and opportunities for future intelligent heterogeneous wireless networks.

Topics of interest in this special issue include, but are not limited to:

+ Cross-layer design for physical, MAC and routing protocols + Cross-layer design for energy efficient MAC and routing. + Cross-layer design for mobility management. + Cross-layer design for QoS provisioning. + Cross-layer design for security and cooperation. + Cross-layer congestion control and scheduling schemes. + Cross-layer design and optimization in Internet of Things (IoTs) and smart grid. + Cross-layer strategies for wireless multimedia communications. + Cross-layer error and delay control. + Cross-layer optimization for energy, network lifetime, and capacity. + Complexity and scalability issues in cross-layer design. + Performance optimization for cross-layer design of wireless networks. + Cross-layer adaptation for energy minimization in wireless networks. + Application layer adaptation-based on cross-layer notifications. + Design, implementation and test-bed/experimental results.

Important Date Submission Due Date: Nov 30, 2017 First acceptance Notification: Feb 1, 2018 Revised manuscript due: March 1, 2018 Final acceptance Notification: May 1, 2018 Final version due: June 1, 2018 Intended publication date: Third Quarter of 2018

Online Submission

Authors should submit their manuscripts online. Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing times and shortens overall publication times. Please follow the hyperlink “Submit online” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen. During the online submission phase, as the first step, authors have to choose as “Article Type” the entry “S.I. Cross-layer Design Issues, Challenges and Opportunities for Future Intelligent Heterogeneous Networks”.

Guest Editors Details

Dr. Muhammad Khalil Afzal COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Email: khalilafzal@ciitwah.edu.pk

Dr. Wazir Zada Khan Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Email: wazirzadakhan@jazanu.edu.sa

Dr. Tariq Umer COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Email: t_umer@yahoo.com

Dr. Byung-Seo Kim Department of Computer and Information Engineering, Hongik University, South Korea Email: jsnbs@hongik.ac.kr

Dr. Shui Yu School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Australia Email: shui.yu@deakin.edu.au

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