-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: Wiley ETT special issue Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:10:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Christian Bettstetter Christian.Bettstetter@ei.tum.de To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

Call for Papers

European Transactions on Telecommunications (Wiley) *Special Issue on Self-Organization in Mobile Networking*

http://kom.aau.dk/~ff/documents/cfp-ett-so.html http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/104087069

Current systems for mobile communication, such as GSM, UMTS, and IEEE 802.11, require manual configuration and central management both for deployment and operation. Such a paradigm will not be feasible any longer in a future world of ubiquitous networking, where wireless technologies will interconnect a tremendous number of everyday items and embedded devices (e.g., electronic papers, sensors). An important design aspect for future systems is to limit the administrative requirements, thus reducing the network deployment time, cutting the operational costs, and facilitating network management. In this context, the term "self-organizing communication networks" has been in the mind of researchers for some decades. During the last few years, the term has mainly been used to describe the nature of wireless multihop networks, so-called ad hoc networks. Although ad hoc networks are expected to play an important role in future systems, self-organization is more than "just" multihop communication. We invite original technical articles on self-organization in cellular, IP, ad hoc, and sensor networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Principles, paradigms, and building blocks for self-organization in mobile networks - Application of concepts for self-organization from natural and social sciences - Protocols and algorithms for self-organization of mobile networks, in particular for medium access control, resource management (radio, energy), clustering, routing, transport, and service discovery - Mobility and topology issues - Scalability issues - Applications, services, and middleware - Security, cooperation, and fairness

Submission Instructions:

Papers should have a length of no more than 15 pages (using 11 point font and about 35 lines per page). Please submit the paper electronically in PDF using the EDAS platform (http://edas.info). All submitted papers must not have been previously published and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere while they are under consideration.

The following deadlines will apply:

- Submission of manuscripts August 31, 2004 - Notification of acceptance October 30, 2004 - Submission of final manuscript December 15, 2004 - Publication March/April 2005 (Issue No. 2)

Guest Editors

- Christian Bettstetter, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany - Frank Fitzek, Aalborg Univ., Denmark - Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany - Guy Pujolle, University Paris VI, France - Paolo Santi, CNR, IIT, Pisa, Italy

Note: Papers for which a major revision is recommended will not be accepted for the special issue, but will be considered for publication in revised form in one of the regular issues of ETT.

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