[Tccc] IEEE Network Special Issue on "Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks"]

IEEE Network Special Issue on
"Advances in Vehicular Communications Networks"

Background
Vehicular communications are being applied to improve safety, decrease
fuel consumption, and increase the capacity of existing roadways. Both
vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications are used
to implement a number of promising applications such as local hazard
warning, efficient route planning and coordination of traffic flows.
Even truly cooperative and, therefore, extremely challenging
applications like cross traffic collision avoidance are being
considered.

In the last years a number of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
related projects and initiatives have been carried out (or will be
completed soon). In Europe, for example, the European Commission
initiated the eSafety Program to reduce the road fatalities by 50%
before 2010 and to improve traffic efficiency. These R&D projects have
created a solid technical basis for vehicular communications, and some
of them have also performed some preliminary experiences, from what some
important results have been obtained ("lessons learned"), as for example
the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) in the US as well as
several projects in Europe.

All the aforementioned research efforts and initiatives can be
considered as the 'phase 1' in the development of vehicular
communications networks. This phase represents an initial and very
important step towards the goals of improving road safety and traffic
efficiency, and providing Internet services to the vehicles. Important
achievements, architectural decisions and conclusions have been the
outcome of this 'phase 1', such as the development of wireless physical
and MAC protocols suited for the vehicular environment (e.g. IEEE
802.11p), new network architectures (some of them not based on classical
TCP/IP), etc.

We are now witnessing the 'phase 2' of research and development in
vehicular communications networks, a new phase in which standardization
and field trials will play a key role, as well as the refinement and
extension of the network architectures and protocols defined in the
'phase 1'.

Scope and Contributions
The goal of this special issue is to share the research developments and
efforts of this new phase ('phase 2') in the vehicular communications
area. Paper submissions are invited on the following topics:

* Overview of state-of-the-art for vehicular communication
technologies and open challenges.
* Network protocols for cooperative vehicular communications, such as
geonetworking (geographical routing and addressing).
* Networking aspects for use of 2G/3G cellular systems for vehicular
communications.
* New system architectures enabling the provision of safety, traffic
efficiency and infotainment services in vehicular scenarios.
* Security, location privacy and reliability issues.
* Integration of IP protocols into the vehicular scenario.
* Standardization for vehicular communications worldwide,
interoperability and harmonization issues.
* Field operational tests (FOTs) for cooperative systems employing
vehicular communications networks.
* Regulatory aspects.

Submission
Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style
comprehensible to readers outside the speciality of the article.
Prospective authors must prepare their article in accordance with the
IEEE Network guidelines to authors, see
http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/info/authors.html. Authors should
submit their manuscript to the guest editors according to the schedule
below (authors are encouraged to notify at least 15 days before
deadline, their intention to submit a paper indicating title, abstract,
authors and keywords).

All submissions will be reviewed based on technical merit and
relevance.

Schedule for Submission
Manuscript submission: July 15, 2009
Acceptance notification: September 15, 2009
Final manuscript due: November 1, 2009
Publication date: January 2010

Guest Editors
Dr. Carlos J. Bernardos (corresponding editor)
Associate Professor, Department of Telematics Engineering
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Leganes, Spain
cjbc@it.uc3m.es

Dr. Andreas Festag
NEC Europe Ltd. - NEC Laboratories Europe
Network Research Division
Heidelberg, Germany
festag@nw.neclab.eu

Dr. Nicholas F. Maxemchuk
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
New York, USA
and
Chief Researcher
IMDEA Networks
Madrid, Spain
nick@ee.columbia.edu

Dr. Carolina Pinart Gilberga
Telefónica I+D
Head of the Networked Vehicles Division
Madrid, Spain
cpg@tid.es

Dr. Christian Weiß
Daimler AG
Group Research and Advanced Engineering
Manager Vehicle-Centric Communication
Sindelfingen, Germany
Christian.A.Weiss@daimler.com

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[Tccc] CFP - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems: Special Issue on Exploiting Wireless Communication Technologies in Vehicular Transportation Networks]

CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Special Issue on Exploiting Wireless Communication Technologies in
Vehicular Transportation Networks

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Deadline: July 31, 2009
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Scope:
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Since the advent of Intelligent Transportation Systems, research on the
use of information for real-time transportation system management has
been much conducted. The recent advances in wireless and sensor
technologies have rapidly promoted the seamless integration of
information of various types from transportation networks to benefit
drivers and provide a wide array of transportation-oriented services.
These advances in information technology and wireless communications
have enabled innovative and cost-effective mobile services and
applications for traffic networks. It is envisioned that inter-vehicle
and infrastructure-to-vehicle communications would become technically
practical in the near future, resulting in an operational "internet on
the road". Due to its interdisciplinary nature, this area has sparked a
great deal of interest among researchers in wireless communication,
transportation and traffic engineering, vehicular technologies, network
operational research, etc. In addition, the area has gained significant
traction with both public agencies and private industry. The goal of
this special issue is to bring together the recent advances in vehicular
infrastructure integration (VII) and vehicle to vehicle communications
(V2V) paradigms that aim to develop efficient information dissemination
systems to significantly improve traffic management, safety, and control.

Topics: The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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• Vehicle to vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications
technologies
• Vehicle mobility management with communications
• Vehicular network modeling and performance analysis
• Algorithms and protocols addressing the integration of communication
and transportation layers
• Security and Privacy Issues of VII and V2V systems
• VII and V2V simulation, implementation, and field testing
• VII and V2V applications to road safety

Submission Format and Review Guidelines:
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High-quality papers are solicited and will undergo the normal
peer-review procedure of the journal for inclusion in the Special Issue.
Manuscripts should be submitted before the deadline at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/t-its/ by selecting the manuscript type
"Special Issue on VII and V2V".

Important Dates:
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Submission of Manuscripts: 31 July 2009
Peer-Review Results: 31 October 2009
Final Accepted Paper: 31 December 2009
Special Issue Publication: 2010

Guest Editors:
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Professor Satish Ukkusuri
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
E-mail: ukkuss@rpi.edu

Professor Chunxiao (Tricia) Chigan
Michigan Tech.
Email: cchigan@mtu.edu

Dr. Yibing Wang
Monash University
E-mail: yibing.wang@eng.monash,edu.au

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Michigan Tech.
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[Mycolleagues] WoWMoM 2009 - CfP - Industrial Track

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WoWMoM 2009
10th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless,
Mobile and Multimedia Networks
15-19 June 2009, Kos, Greece
http://www.ieee-wowmom.org
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Call For Papers -- Industrial Track

Important dates:
* Paper submission deadline: 15 March 2009 (HARD DEADLINE)
* Acceptance notification: 29 March 2009
* Camera-ready copy deadline: 11 April 2009

IEEE WoWMoM 2009 is soliciting original and previously unpublished
research papers from industry researchers and professionals for a
one-day Industry Session. Specific topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

* Conversational Mobile Multimedia
* (Personal) Mobile Broadcast Delivery and Applications
* Mobile broadcast implementation issues (including, but not limited to,
DVB-H, MBMS, DMB, ATSC-M/H, MediaFLO, etc.)
* Mobile P2P distribution of real-time Multimedia
* Scalable Media architectures for mobile networks
* Social Multimedia and co-creation
* 3D Video modeling and applications
* Context-based real-time media
* Semantic description and scene context extraction of real-time media
* Multimodal sensing and context.

The Industry Session track is intended to specially highlight system
experiences and proofs-of-concept in the areas above. Like regular
papers, the Industry Session papers will undergo a review process by an
International TPC and will appear in the conference proceedings.
However, the selection criteria for Industry Session papers are slightly
different. In particular, papers should describe applications,
prototypes or experiences of clear industry relevance. Papers with
narrow algorithmic focus or only high-level design details are
discouraged. A key goal of this session is to present systems-oriented
research that exposes the academic and research communities to real-life
issues and problems being faced in industry. Accordingly, papers will be
evaluated, less on the novelty of specific algorithmic content, but by
the originality and general applicability of insights that can be
inferred from the authors' implementation experience.

Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines given in
http://www.ics.forth.gr/wowmom09/papersubmission.html and submitted by
the authors to BOTH the Industry Chairs by midnight US Pacific Time of
15 March 2009.

Industry Chairs:
Igor D.D. Curcio (Nokia Research Center), E-mail: igor.curcio@nokia.com
Kumar Ramaswamy (Thomson), E-mail: kumar.ramaswamy@thomson.net

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[Tccc] CFP: IEEE ICNP 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
ICNP 2009
17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
October 13-16, 2009
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009

ICNP, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols is the
premier conference covering all aspects of network protocols. ICNP will
be held in its seventeenth year at Princeton, New Jersey from October
13-16th, 2009. Papers with significant research contributions on network
protocols are solicited for submission. Papers related to all aspects of
network protocols including design, implementation, analysis,
performance and specification are relevant. Papers must not be
previously published nor under review in any other conference or
journal. Only original papers that have not been published previously or
submitted for publication and under review by another conference or
journal elsewhere can be submitted. Papers containing plagiarized
material will be subject to the IEEE Plagiarism policy and will be
rejected without review. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Protocol design, implementation, testing and analysis.
* Measurement studies of protocol performance.
* Protocols for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks.
* Protocols for peer-to-peer networks.
* Protocols for specific functions such as routing, flow/congestion
control, network management.
* Protocols for security, survivability and fault-tolerance.

Papers must be directly relevant to protocols. Papers on general
networking where protocols are only a secondary focus will be considered
only if they are of exceptionally high quality.

Papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. The identity of
authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind
reviewing, the authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the
paper. Bibliographic references should protect the authors' anonymity.
Papers should adhere to the IEEE format and should not be more than 10
pages. The font size should not be smaller than 10pt. Further
instructions will be posted on the ICNP website
(http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009).

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to register for the
conference and the paper must be presented at the conference in order
for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: April 10, 2009 8:59 P.M. EDT
Paper Submission: April 17, 2009 8:59 P.M. EDT (Hard Deadline)
Notification of Acceptance: July 28, 2009
Camera Ready Version Due: September 4, 2009

Organizing Committee:
Steering Committee:
David Lee (Chair) Ohio State University, USA
Ken Calvert (Vice Chair) University of Kentucky, USA
Kevin Almeroth University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Mostafa Ammar Georgia Tech, USA
Sonia Fahmy Purdue University, USA
Mohamed Gouda University of Texas, Austin, USA
Teruo Higashino Osaka University, Japan
Krishan Sabnani Bell Labs Research, USA

Advisory Board:
Simon Lam University of Texas, Austin, USA
Mike T. Liu Ohio State University, USA
Raymond Miller University of Maryland, USA

General Chairs:
K.K. Ramakrishnan AT & T Labs Research, USA
Henning Schulzrinne Columbia University, USA

Program Chairs:
Timothy Griffin University of Cambridge, UK
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy University of California, Riverside, USA

For more details, visit the conference webpage:
http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009

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[Tccc] Call for papers: ICNP 2009

[Sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.]

CALL FOR PAPERS
ICNP 2009
17th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
October 13-16, 2009
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009

ICNP, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols is the
premier conference covering all aspects of network protocols. ICNP will
be held in its seventeenth year at Princeton, New Jersey from October
13-16th, 2009. Papers with significant research contributions on network
protocols are solicited for submission. Papers related to all aspects of
network protocols including design, implementation, analysis,
performance and specification are relevant. Papers must not be
previously published nor under review in any other conference or
journal. Only original papers that have not been published previously or
submitted for publication and under review by another conference or
journal elsewhere can be submitted. Papers containing plagiarized
material will be subject to the IEEE Plagiarism policy and will be
rejected without review. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Protocol design, implementation, testing and analysis.
• Measurement studies of protocol performance.
• Protocols for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks.
• Protocols for peer-to-peer networks.
• Protocols for specific functions such as routing, flow/congestion
control, network management.
• Protocols for security, survivability and fault-tolerance.

Papers must be directly relevant to protocols. Papers on general
networking where protocols are only a secondary focus will be considered
only if they are of exceptionally high quality.

Papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. The identity of
authors and referees will not be revealed to each other. To ensure blind
reviewing, the authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the
paper. Bibliographic references should protect the authors' anonymity.
Papers should adhere to the IEEE format and should not be more than 10
pages. The font size should not be smaller than 10 pt. Further
instructions will be posted on the ICNP website
(http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009).

Authors of accepted papers will be expected to register for the
conference and the paper must be presented at the conference in order
for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: April 10, 2009 8:59 P.M. EDT
Paper Submission: April 17, 2009 8:59 P.M. EDT (Hard Deadline)
Notification of Acceptance: July 28, 2009
Camera Ready Version Due: September 4, 2009

Organizing Committee:

Executive Committee:
David Lee Ohio State University, USA (Chair)
Mostafa Ammar Georgia Tech. USA
Ken Calvert University of Kentucky, USA
Teruo Higashino Osaka University, Japan
Raymond Miller University of Maryland, USA

General Chairs:
K.K. Ramakrishnan AT&T Labs Research, USA
Henning Schulzrinne Columbia University, USA

Program Chairs:
Timothy Griffin University of Cambridge, U.K.
Srikanth V. Krishnamurthy University of California, Riverside, USA

For more details, visit the conference webpage:
http://www.ieee-icnp.org/2009

Regards,
Xiaoming Fu
IEEE ICNP'08 Publicity Chair

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[Tccc] CFP: Mascots 2009

MASCOTS 2009
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems

September 21-23, 2009
South Kensington Campus, Imperial College London, UK

http://mascots2009.doc.ic.ac.uk/

The MASCOTS conference is a well-established international forum for
state-of-the-art research on measurement, modelling and performance
analysis of computer systems and communication networks. The 17th annual
meeting of MASCOTS will be held at the South Kensington Campus of
Imperial College London, UK. The conference will bring together
academics and industry practitioners to present and discuss their latest
research results. The technical programme for the 3-day conference will
include keynote talks, refereed papers, and posters.

The fourth International workshop on Practical Applications of
Stochastic Modelling (PASM) will be held jointly with MASCOTS, on
September 24:

http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/nigel.thomas/PASM09.html

We encourage researchers world-wide to submit both theoretical and
practical results of significance which have not been published
elsewhere. The conference proceedings for MASCOTS 2009 will be published
by the IEEE Computer Society.

PAPERS

MASCOTS 2009 seeks original technical papers describing research in the
areas of computer systems and network performance evaluation. The scope
of the symposium includes, but is not limited to:

Computer Architecture
Distributed/Parallel Systems
Computer Networks
Heterogeneous Systems
Industrial Practice and Experience
Internetworking Protocols
Multi-core Systems
Multimedia Systems
Performance Evaluation Methodologies
Pervasive Web and Mobility
Sensor Networks
Software and Operating Systems
Storage Systems
Web-based Systems
Wireless Networks

Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and
references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font
size no less than 10 point. All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least
three members of the program committee. We will not accept any paper
which, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already
been published or accepted for publication in any other conference or
journal. Accepted papers for MASCOTS 2009 will appear in the conference
proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society. Authors of
highly-ranked papers may be invited to submit extended versions of their
work to appropriate IEEE or ACM journals.

POSTERS
Posters provide a forum for late-breaking or preliminary research
results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to
present and demonstrate their recent work, and to obtain feedback from
their peers in an informal setting. Material submitted as a full paper
may also be submitted as a poster paper; if the full papers is accepted
the poster will not be considered. Poster paper submissions may be up to
two pages in length, excluding references, formatted as described in the
submission page. Accepted poster papers will be allocated up to three
pages in the conference proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
March 27, 2009 – Abstract submission
April 3, 2009 – Paper submission
April 30, 2009 – Poster Submission
May 20, 2009 – Acceptance Notification
June 10, 2009 – Camera Ready Submission

SUBMISSION
Authors should submit manuscripts by the above deadlines by following
the instructions on the conference web site.

ORGANISERS

Conference General Chairs
Tony Field
Imperial College London, UK

George Riley
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Program Chairs
James M. Conrad
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

William Knottenbelt
Imperial College London, UK

Proceedings Chair
Jeremy Bradley
Imperial College London, UK

Publicity Chair
Helen Karatza
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Local Arrangements Chairs
Nicholas Dingle
Uli Harder
Imperial College London, UK

Programme Committee
Ismail Ari (HP Labs)
Marta Beltran (Rey Juan Carlos University)
Jeremy Bradley (Imperial College London)
Fabian Bustamante (Northwestern University)
Ken Christensen (University of South Florida)
Lucia Cloth (University of Twente)
Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University)
Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary)
Stephen Gilmore (University of Edinburgh)
Garth Goodson (Network Appliance)
Kanchi Gopinath (Indian Institute of Science)
Marco Gribaudo (University of Turin)
Peter Harrison (Imperial College London)
Felix Hernandez-Campos (Google)
Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh)
Andras Horvath (University of Turin)
Stephen Jarvis (University of Warwick)
Nikolai Joukov (IBM)
Bharat Joshi (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Helen Karatza (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki)
Peter King (Heriot-Watt University)
Pieter Kritzinger (University of Cape Town)
Zongpeng Li (University of Calgary)
Ellen Liu (University of Manitoba)
Catalina Llado (University of the Balearic Islands)
Darrell Long (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Anirban Mahanti (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
Daniel Menasce (George Mason University)
Ethan Miller (University of California at Santa Cruz)
David Nicol (UIUC)
Jianping Pan (University of Victoria)
Dave Parker (University of Oxford)
Naresh Patel (Network Appliance)
Alma Riska (Seagate)
Bianca Schroeder (University of Toronto)
Thomas Schwarz (Santa Clara University)
Kai Shen (University of Rochester)
Mark Squillante (IBM)
Nigel Thomas (University of Newcastle)
Kishor Trivedi (Duke University)
Rob van der Mei (CWI Amsterdam)
Aad van Moorsel (University of Newcastle)
Adam Wierman (Cal Tech)
John Wilkes (Google)
Carey Williamson (University of Calgary)
Andrew Willis (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Soraya Zertal (University of Versailles)
Xiaoyun Zhu (HP Labs)

Steering Committee
Dharma Agrawal (U. of Cincinnati, USA)
Kallol Bagchi (U. of Texas at El Paso, USA)
Thomas Braunl (U. of Western Australia, Australia)
Giovanni Chiola (Universitat di Genova, Italy)
Doug DeGroot (U. of Leiden, Netherlands)
Patrick Dowd (U. of Maryland, USA)
Jozo Dujmovic (San Francisco State U., USA)
David Finkel (Worcester Polytechnic Inst., USA)
Richard Fujimoto (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA)
Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College, UK)
Darrell Long (U. of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Marco Marsan (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
George Riley (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA)
Herb Schwetman (Mesquite Inc., USA)
Kishor Trivedi (Duke U., USA)
Jean Walrand (U. of California at Berkeley, USA)

LOCATION
Imperial College's South Kensington campus is located in the heart of
the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a quiet and green part of
the capital, yet close to several of London's major cultural landmarks.
Imperial is next door to the Natural History Museum, the Royal Albert
Hall, the Albert Memorial, the Science museum and the Victoria and
Albert museum. Hyde Park, Kensington Palace and Harrods are a short walk
away. London's other major attractions, including Buckingham Palace, the
Palace of Westminster, the West End and Covent Garden can be reached in
a few minutes by bus, tube (metro) or taxi.

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[Mycolleagues] Mobile Networks & Applications SI - Advances and Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

Dear Colleagues,
(Sorry for the cross posting!)

*Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET)*

*Special Issue on Advances and Applications in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks*

* *

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) using all kinds of wireless
technologies has recently received considerable attention. The goal of
this special issue is to explore the development of wireless vehicular
ad hoc network technologies about communication, networking, and
applications. A good communication protocol design can achieve highly
reliable, highly scalable, and high performance. In aspect of
networking, there are many challenges that how to offer quality of
service, build high performance routing, provide mobility management,
and create secure vehicular ad hoc networks. VANET safety applications
include safety warnings and collision avoidance. This is imperious to
improve the non-safety applications and reduce the occurrence of
collision. VANETs present a highly active field of research,
development, standardization and field trials. Throughout the world,
there are many national/international projects in government, industry,
and academia devoted to VANETs, for example consortia like VSC (US),
C2CCC (Europe) and InternetITS (Japan), standardization efforts like
IEEE 802.11p (WAVE) and field trials like the large-scale Vehicle
Infrastructure Integration Program (VII) in the US. The special issue
solicits high-quality theoretical as well as practical works on a broad
range of issues important to the communication, networking, and
applications for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Topics of interest
include but are not limited to following:

- Safety and non-safety applications

- Roadside-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle communication

- Communication protocol design

- Channel modeling

- Modulation and coding

- Power control and scalability issues

- Multi-channel organization and operation

- Security issues and countermeasures

- Privacy issues

- Network management

- Routing protocol and mobility management

- Simulation frameworks & real-world testbeds

*_Guest Editors_**__*

*Prof. Han-Chieh Chao *

*National Ilan University**, Taiwan** *

*hcc@niu.edu.tw*

*Prof. Yuh-Shyan Chen*

*National Taipei University**, Taiwan** *

*yschen@csie.ntpu.edu.tw*

*Prof. Yueh Min Huang*

*National Cheng Kung University** Taiwan***

*huang@mail.ncku.edu.tw***

* *

*_Schedule: _*

Manuscript submission deadline: November 1, 2008

Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2009

Submission of final revised paper: April 1, 2009

Publication of special issue: 3^rd or 4^th Quarter, 2009 (Tentative)

*_Submission Procedure: _*

Authors should follow the MONET Journal manuscript format described
bellow at the journal site: http://www.springerlink.com/content/101750/.
Manuscripts should be submitted on line through
http://www.editorialmanager.com/mone/. A copy of the manuscript should
also be emailed to the guest editors (hcc@niu.edu.tw
<mailto:hcc@niu.edu.tw> or yschen@mail.ntpu.edu.tw
<mailto:yschen@mail.ntpu.edu.tw> or huang@mail.ncku.edu.tw) as pdf files.