-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [TCCC-ANNOUNCE] CFP Deadline Approaching: IEEE Communications Magazine FT - Enabling mobile and wireless technologies for smart cities Datum: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 07:06:24 -0500 Von: Ejaz Ahmed imejaz@GMAIL.COM Antwort an: Ejaz Ahmed imejaz@GMAIL.COM An: tccc-announce@COMSOC.ORG

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below information related to our feature topic ''Enabling Mobile and Wireless Technologies for Smart Cities” in the IEEE Communications Magazine. Kindly consider submitting your relevant work to this feature topic.

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FEATURE TOPIC: ENABLING MOBILE AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES FOR SMART CITIES URL: http://www.comsoc.org/commag/cfp/enabling-mobile-and-wireless-technologies-s...

CALL FOR PAPERS

Due to advancements in communication and computing technologies, smart cities have become main innovation agenda of research organizations, technology vendors, and governments. To make a city smart, a strong communication infrastructure is required for connecting smart objects, people, and sensors together. Smart city communication involves multiple aggregation and access networks that can be either public or private. The rapid progress in smart cities research is posing enormous challenges in terms of significance, scope, and problem domain. Smart cities rely on wireless and mobile technologies for providing services such as healthcare assistance, security and safety, real-time traffic monitoring, and managing the environment, to name a few. Such applications have been a main driving force in development of smart cities. These mobile and wireless technologies enable several new services that result into better decision making and actions made by enterprises and governments.! Without the appropriate communication networks, it is really difficult for a city to facilitate its citizens in sustainable, efficient, and safer manner/environment. Considering the significance of mobile and wireless technologies for realizing the vision of smart cities, there is a need for conducting research to further investigate the standardization efforts and explore different issues/challenges in the wireless technologies, mobile computing and smart environments. This FT focuses on the crossroads between scientists, industry practitioners, and researchers from different domains in the wireless technologies, mobile computing and smart environments. We envision to provide a platform for researchers to further explore the domain and explore the challenges. In this FT, we invite researchers from academia, industry, and government to discuss challenging ideas, novel research contributions, demonstration results, and standardization efforts on enabling mobile and wireless technologies for smart cities.

FOCUS FOR THE FT

In this FT we would like to try to answer some (or all) of the following questions: How mobile and wireless technologies can improve the performance and services provided by smart cities? How to evaluate the impact of mobile and wireless technologies on smart cities services? What are the key mobile and wireless technological challenges that hinder the development of smart cities? How to standardize the wireless interfaces of devices for communication in smart cities?

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Resource and network management in smart cities • Quality of Service mechanisms for wireless networks in smart cities • Integration and co-existence of technologies and networks for smart cities • Inter​-​operability between heterogeneous networks of smart cities • Topology and mobility management in smart cities • Energy-aware wireless protocols and algorithms for smart cities • Sensing technologies and applications for smart cities • Wireless networks for smart city surveillance and management • Experimental network measurements and characterization for smart cities data traffic • Security and privacy concerns in smart cities

SUBMISSIONS

Articles should be tutorial in nature, with the intended audience being all members of the global communications technology community. They should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Mathematical equations should not be used (in justified cases up to three simple equations may be allowed). In general, however, mathematics should be avoided; instead, references to papers containing the relevant mathematics should be provided. Articles should not exceed 4500 words (from introduction through conclusions, excluding figures, tables and captions). Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. The number of references is recommended not to exceed 15. Complete guidelines for preparation of the manuscripts are posted at http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines. Please send a PDF (preferred) or MSWORD formatted paper via Manuscript Central (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee). Register or lo! g in, and go to Author Center. Follow the instructions there. Select "December 2016/Enabling Mobile and Wireless Technologies for Smart Cities" as the Feature Topic category for your submission.

IMPORTANT DATES

Manuscript Submission: 29th February 2016 Decision Notification: 30th June 2016 Final Manuscript Submission: 15th September 2016 Expected Publication Date: December 2016

GUEST EDITORS

Ejaz Ahmed University of Malaya, Malaysia imejaz@gmail.com

Muhammad Imran King Saud University, Saudi Arabia dr.m.imran@ieee.org

Mohsen Guizani Qatar University, Qatar mguizani@ieee.org

Ammar Rayes Cisco Systems, USA rayes@cisco.com

Jaime Lloret Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain jlloret@dcom.upv.es

Guangjie Han Hohai University, China hanguangjie@ieee.org

Wael Guibene Intel Labs, Ireland wael.guibene@intel.com

​Kind Regards, Ejaz Ahmed Associate Technical Editor, IEEE Com. Mag., Associate Editor, Wiley WCMC, ​Senior Researcher, High Impact Research Project, Centre for Mobile Cloud Computing Research (C4MCCR), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Email IDs: imejaz@gmail.com, ejazahmed@ieee.org Twitter ID: @imejazahmed Personal Website: www.ejazahmed.com

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