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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on Dependability Issues with Ubiquitous Wireless Access ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

http://www.comsoc.org/dl/pcm/cfpwireless808.htm

+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Manuscript Due: 1 December 2007 +++++++++++++++++++++++++

Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of the number of wireless technologies available to access the Internet. While the emergence of these new technologies can enable truly ubiquitous Internet access, it also raises issues with the dependability of the Internet service delivered to users. Indeed, wireless Internet access is, when compared to traditional wired access solutions, more prone to security attacks and less predictable in terms of the Quality of Service (QoS) experienced by users. This poses serious challenges to the provisioning, in this context, of a dependable Internet service that meets the users’ requirements in terms of security, QoS, reliability and availability, among others.

In order to meet the above requirements on dependability, new solutions such as security and QoS mechanisms need to be designed for the wireless access. Several issues need to be addressed in the design of such dependable wireless solutions, including the following: (1) the open nature of radio communications provides serious exposure to security attacks; (2) the limited capacity and shared nature of the wireless medium complicates the provisioning of Quality of Service; (3) inherently unpredictable wireless channel characteristics make it hard to guarantee availability; (4) exploitation of resources due to selfish and malicious behavior is difficult to prevent; (5) the emergence of new paradigms, such as opportunistic spectrum usage and self-organizing networks, promise improvements but introduce new challenges to dependability.

This special issue will focus on recent research results on dependability issues with ubiquitous wireless access in the context of wireless technologies including WLAN, cellular and broadcast systems, ad-hoc and mesh networks, among others. Topics of interest include, although are not limited to, the following:

* Predictable shared medium access mechanisms * Techniques for identifying and controlling selfish users * Security mechanisms and protocols for the wireless access * Wireless Quality of Service provisioning * Countering Denial-of-service attacks in wireless networks * Metrics for measuring dependability * Privacy-aware dependable operation for wireless networks * Dependable opportunistic spectrum techniques * Dependability in self-organizing networks * Reliable and ubiquitous emergency services * Dependable services for mobile users

Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html. Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to Albert Banchs (banchs@it.uc3m.es) no later than 1 December 2007.

Manuscript Due: 1 December 2007 Acceptance Notification: 15 March 2008 Final Revised Manuscript Due: 15 May 2008 Publication: August 2008

Guest Editors: Prof. Albert Banchs, Univ. Carlos III Prof. Virgil Gligor, University of Maryland Prof. Daji Qiao, Iowa State University Dr. Dirk Westhoff, NEC Europe Ltd.

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