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Special Issue Call for Papers

Wiley Interscience - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Special Issue on "Architectures and Protocols for Wireless Mesh, Ad Hoc, and Sensor Networks"

During the last few years, we have witnessed a tremendous interest from academia, industry, and standardization bodies in wireless mesh, ad hoc and sensor networking. With several appealing characteristics, such as dynamic self-configuration, self-organization, self-healing, easy maintenance, and high scalability, wireless mesh networks have been prodded as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home, enterprise, and community networking. Wireless ad-hoc networks have also shown applications in a variety of situations, such as battlefields, disaster recovery/rescue operations, and entertainment. At the same time, wireless sensor networks are being deployed and actively researched for various forms of environmental monitoring, home automation, military, and civilian applications. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations from more than a decade's research effort in wireless networking, many research issues remain open in all protocol layers of wireless mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks. For example, the foreseen multi-channel, multi-radio, and multi-antenna hybrid architectures (infrastructure and ad hoc) have brought new challenges in the design of physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios are urging researchers to address enhanced quality of service support and various security issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh, ad hoc, and sensor networks. This special issue is dedicated to recent advances in architectures and protocols of wireless mesh, ad hoc, and sensor networks. Papers describing architectures, protocols, evaluation methods, and experimental studies are solicited in the following topics of interest (not limited to):

- Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh, ad hoc, and sensor networking - Cognitive Radio Networks - Quality of Services provisioning - MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) - Network deployment, localization, and synchronization protocols - Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols - Topology construction and maintenance - Cross layer optimization - Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols - Novel applications and coexisting of mesh, ad hoc, and networks - Vehicular ad hoc networks - Wireless sensor networks and applications to intelligent living and robotics - Test-bed, prototype, and practical systems

Guest Editors: Farid Naït-Abdesselam, University of Lille, France. Kwang Chang Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Ehab S. Elmallah, University of Alberta, Canada. Matthias Frank, University of Bonn, Germany.

Schedule: Manuscript submission deadline: May 15, 2009 Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2009 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2009 Publication of special issue: 2010

Submission Procedure: Papers should be submitted online via the journal's homepage at the URL below, under Online Submission . Each submission must be clearly identified as a submission for this special issue by entering the title in the Special Issue Title field, when requested. All submitted papers should be anonymous with no author(s) names, affiliations, acknowledgements, nor obvious references. Authors are also requested to submit a separate cover letter, which contains the paper title, the authors’ names, affiliations, up to five keywords, and a 200 word abstract.

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