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| CALL FOR PAPERS |

| IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON |

| Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks: |

| Scalability, Flexibility, and Interoperability |

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Over the past decade, we have witnessed the tremendous growth in the

number of networked wireless devices, in the types of wireless and

mobile applications, and in the total amount of traffic from and

towards these devices. In the foreseeable future, it is expected

that such a trend will continue with an unprecedented increasing rate.

For instance, with the recent deployment of the fourth-generation (4G)

cellular network, mobile data traffic rate over cellular networks had

exceeded 2 Exabytes per month world-wide by the end of 2014. Recent

studies also suggest that the mobile traffic rate could be increased

10-fold by 2019. Besides the ever-increasing mobile applications over

cellular networks, many other wireless applications are emerging,

including smart grid, vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), cyber-physical

system (CPS), and more generally, Internet of Things (IoT). Clearly,

to accommodate the fast growing demands, future wireless networks must

be scalable.

For the aforementioned existing and emerging wireless applications, it

has been well-known that they have diverse quality-of-service (QoS)

requirements: from low data rate IoT monitoring applications to high

data rate content streaming applications, from delay sensitive

real-time monitoring in smart grid and safety control in vehicular

CPS to delay-tolerant IoT applications. Therefore, it has been very

challenging to design and develop practical wireless networks and

systems to facilitate different application demands efficiently. To

address these challenges, researchers and developers in both academia

and industry have put significant efforts to design various wireless

networks. For example, in the past few years, the architecture of the

fifth-generation (5G) cellular network has attracted significant

attention, several future Internet architectures (FIAs) have also been

proposed and investigated, and various architectures have been

developed for smart grid, VANET, IoT, etc. Naturally, it becomes very

important to investigate two issues: first, how we can flexibly deploy

or configure a specific type of wireless network, and secondly, if we

have multiple co-existing wireless networks, how we can enable the

interoperation among them.

In the literature, the importance of scalability, flexibility, and

interoperability has been recognized and there are some existing

studies already. However, despite the importance of these efforts,

there are still many challenging issues to be addressed. For example,

how to effectively accommodate more than 1 trillion networked devices

world-wide in the next 10 years? How to efficiently provision services

in future wireless networks such that a given system can be flexibly

programmed to optimize the performance of certain applications? How to

facilitate the interoperation of heterogeneous wireless networks and

systems? To understand and solve these key issues, we organize this

special issue in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine focusing on the

scalability, flexibility, and interoperability in the design of

architecture for future wireless networks. The special issue covers

topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Architecture for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT)

- Flexible architecture for applications with diverse data rates

- Flexible architecture for systems and applications with diverse mobility requirements

- Flexible cognitive radio and spectrum access

- Interoperability between future Internet and wireless networks

- Interoperability among diverse wireless networks

- Namespace management in heterogeneous wireless networks

- Routing in large-scale multihop wireless network

- Security design on wireless scalability, flexibility, and interoperability

- Scalable cooperative communications and network coding

- Scalable data-centric wireless network architecture

- Scalable energy efficiency wireless network

- Scalable social-aware wireless network architecture

- Standards for scalable, flexible, and interoperable wireless networks

- Wireless network for large-scale cyber-physical-system

SUBMISSIONS

Authors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines

regarding manuscript content and format. For details, please refer

to the "Author Guidelines" at the IEEE Wireless Communications Web

site at http://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag/author-guidelines. All

papers must be submitted electronically via the IEEE Wireless

Communications manuscript submission system at

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. All papers will be reviewed

by at least three (3) reviewers for their technical merit, scope, and

relevance to the CFP.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Manuscript Submission: May 1, 2016

- Notification of Acceptance: July 1, 2016

- Revised Manuscript Due: August 1, 2016

- Final Decision: September 1, 2016

- Final Manuscript Due: October 1, 2016

- Publication: December 2016

GUEST EDITORS

Kejie Lu

University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, USA

kejie.lu@upr.edu

Shucheng (Will) Liu

Huawei Technologies, China

liushucheng@huawei.com

Kostas Pentikousis

EICT, Germany

k.pentikousis@eict.de

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