-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Tccc] Extension: SI for IEEE Wireless Comm., new deadline Sept. 10 Datum: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:55:45 -0700 (PDT) Von: Lin Cai cai@ECE.UVic.CA An: tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu

Given the power outage, flooding, and university shut down caused by the hurricane Irene that hit the east coast of US, the deadline of this special issue is postponed to September 10, 2011.

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine “User Cooperation in Wireless Networks”

*** Important dates *** Manuscript Submission: September 10, 2011 Notification of acceptance: January 1, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: February 1, 2012 Publication: April 2012

*** Submit to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm ***

As the wireless communication channel is shared in nature, user cooperation is a key enabling tool to exploit the spatial multiplexing and diversity gains to improve spectrum and energy efficiency of wireless networks. User cooperation can take many forms, including the physical layer cooperative communications, the link layer cooperative and cognitive medium access, the network layer cooperative routing and load balancing, the collaborative end-to-end congestion control, and the cooperative peer-to-peer services, etc. The development and optimization of cooperation technologies requires inter-disciplinary efforts, from advanced signal processing and communication to network protocol design and optimization. It also sparks theoretical breakthroughs in topology control, nonlinear optimization, signal processing and complex networks, and stimulates practical advances in mobile communications and networking technologies, devices and platforms. This special issue is to disseminate the state-of-the-art results in this fast-moving research area, and to bring together experts from different disciplines, with the goal of fostering interactions among them to promote further research interests and activities to develop new user cooperation technologies for wireless networks. Specifically, this special issue targets (but is not limited to) the following aspects: - Topology control for user cooperation - Cooperative communications and relay - Cooperative and cognitive medium access control and scheduling - Cooperation and coordination among heterogeneous wireless networks - Cooperative routing - Collaborative end-to-end congestion control - User cooperation in peer-to-peer systems - Cross-layer design and optimization for user cooperation - Security support and incentive schemes to encourage user cooperation - Cooperative mobile social networking - Testbed, prototype, and standardization activities for cooperative networks

Authors should submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF format to the manuscript center at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. (Please select "User Cooperation in Wireless Networks" for "Manuscript Type".) Articles should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and the abstract should have no more than 250 words. With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines for authors that can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html.

Important dates: Manuscript Submission: September 10, 2011 Notification of acceptance: January 1, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: February 1, 2012 Publication: April 2012

Guest Editors: Dr. Lin Cai, University of Victoria (Canada) Dr. Nei Kato, Tohoku University (Japan) Dr. Pan Li, Mississippi State University (USA) Dr. Romano Fantacci, University of Florence (Italy)