Call for Book Chapters - Emerging Wireless Networks, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, USA

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Book Title: Emerging Wireless Networks: Concepts, Techniques and
Applications
(To be published by Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group
http://www.crcpress.com/)

Introduction:
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Nowadays, mobile and wireless communications become a commodity and we have
experienced an explosive increasing in wireless data applications, such as
real-time multimedia services (e.g., VoIP, video streaming). In recent
years, we have assisted to the emerging diversity of wireless systems,
architectures and standards. The popular emerging wireless networks include
3G (e.g., UMTS/HSPA, EV-DO), LTE/SAE, WiMAX, WiFi, mobile ad hoc networks
(MANETs), wireless mesh networks (WMNs) and wireless sensor networks (WSNs).

However, the interworking of these diverse technologies as well as the
efficient delivery value-added applications and services over these emerging
wireless systems lead to challenging issues (e.g., security, mobility
management, architectures, QoS provisioning, resource allocation). To solve
these different issues related to heterogeneity of wireless access
technologies and networks, researchers, engineers and SDOs have been putting
various efforts and coming up with innovative ideas in term of novel
protocols, architectures and algorithms. Requirements of next-generation or
emerging wireless networks open even more new opportunities for many
interesting and comprehensive research topics targeting at concepts,
methodologies, and techniques to support advanced mobile value-added
services. Clearly, the development of new mechanisms, protocols, algorithms,
applications, architectures, and systems will have a significant impact for
the successful deployment of emerging wireless networks.

The objective of this book is to serve as a comprehensive technical guide
and reference material for practitioners, engineers, scientists and
researchers providing them with the state-of-the-art of research work and
recent advancements in different aspects of emerging wireless technologies.
We solicit contributions that address protocols design, architectures,
algorithms aspects, implementation issues and deployment of emerging
wireless technologies and practical use cases.

Recommended Topics (not limited to):
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following focus
areas:
- QoS architecture, algorithms and provisioning
- Handoff and mobility management
- IP-based mobility management
- Radio resource management
- Cognitive radio networks and spectrum assignment
- Wireless network planning and deployment
- Multimedia over mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) networks
- Scalability and manageability of wireless network architectures
- Cross-layer design, modeling and optimization
- Mobile networks modeling and simulation
- Implementation, deployment and management of security systems
- IP multimedia system operations and management over wireless
- Autonomous management of IMS architectures
- UMTS/HSPA, EV-DO, LTE, WiMAX, WiFi interworking
- Need and requirements of Beyond 3G and 4G networks
- Challenges and opportunities for 4G wireless networks
- Multi-access network and multi-technologies management
- Access authentication, privacy and security models in mobile environments
- Security architectures for next-generation converged wireless networks
- Lawful interception and mandatory data retention for mobile networks
- End-to-end IP multimedia services over wireless networks
- Video, real-time streaming in wireless multimedia communications
- Performance analysis, modeling, simulation and experiment of wireless
networks
- Testbed, prototype, practical systems and architectures
- Standardization activities, specifications and enhancements in the
emerging standards
- Case studies and market analysis related to emerging wireless systems

Important Dates:
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Submission of chapter proposal: July 31, 2009
Notification of proposal acceptance: September 15, 2009
Full chapter submission: January 15, 2010
Final notification of acceptance: March 15, 2010
Camera ready copy submission: April 30, 2010
Publication date: Last quarter of 2010 (tentative)

Manuscript Submission Guidelines:
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Interested authors are invited to submit chapter proposal (1-3 pages)
describing clearly the topic covered. The proposal should include the
chapter organization, number of pages of the final manuscript and contact
address of the corresponding author. Technical contributions describing
original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review anywhere,
are solicited. All submitted chapters will undergo a double-blind peer
review.

Upon acceptance of chapter proposals, authors will be sent document
preparation guidelines. The authors may be requested to modify the contents
of the chapters if deemed necessary in order to maintain the consistency of
the entire book and to include the most up-to-date information about each
topic.

Contact:
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For any inquiries and chapter proposal submission, please contact co-editors
to:

Dr. Christian Makaya
Telcordia Technologies
Email: ewnetbook<AT>gmail.com

Prof. Samuel Pierre
Ecole Polyetchnique de Montreal
Email: samuel.pierre<AT>polymtl.ca
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