CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Computer
Networks (Elsevier) on
Future Advances in Military Communications Systems
& Technologies
Since the end of the Cold War there have been
numerous advances in the Telecommunications Technologies that support the
tactical operational support of modern military personnel. The requirement today
is for rapid deployment of military assets in remote parts of the world, often
in environmentally hostile geography. This places an ever-increasing dependence
on Information and Communications Technology to provide real-time fault-tolerant
QoS command, control and data management over fixed and freespace communications
transport infrastructures. The ability of the modern combatant to have an array
of 'on-board' sensor feeds to various components of the central command and
control stack using a combination of HF Radio, SATCOM, spread spectrum or IP
protocols places added pressure on the communications stack to provide an
fully integrated network management solution for the Digital
Battlefield.
Key services that need to be provided include: node
and network mobility (NEMO, MIP), request admission control, energy
efficient device operation (e.g. IP address management or DNS),
intelligent QoS-based network resource provisioning, error-free physical and
MAC-layer protocols and robust security. In all of these sub-level
communications technologies there is a challenge to provide more effective
topology transition and data management mechanisms in order that any
ad-hoc network can self-heal without impacting user data communications sessions
after exception condition events have been detected.
This special issue of Computer Networks is intended
to foster the dissemination of high quality research in Integrated
Mobility and Ad-hoc Networking in Military Networks (e.g. dealing with
geolocation, rapid deployment of real-time intelligence data gathering). In
recent years this has become an area of great interest with sessions at NOMS,
MILCOM, and IFIP/IEEE IM as well as papers in COMNET, IEEE and ACM Journals. It
is the objective of this special issue to publish papers presenting methodology,
performance, and methods for providing/increasing mobility and the ability
to configure an ah-hoc network at the necessary levels of QoS in support
of military operations. This performance can be shown by analysis, simulation or
implementation with preference being given to papers providing comparisons of
alternatives used via air, land and sea.
Only technical papers describing previously
unpublished, original, state-of-the-art research, and not currently under review
by another conference or journal will be considered. We solicit papers covering
a variety of topics related to Future Advances in Military Communications
Systems & Technologies including, but not limited to:
Mobility Management in Tactical Networks
Routing
Protocols for the Digital Battlefield
Supporting Mobility in Topology
Transition Networks
Address Allocation & Management in Hostile Networking
Environments
Security Architectures for Ad-Hoc
Networking
Tactical Self-organising Sensor Networks
QoS Resource
Provisioning for MANET
Emerging SATCOM systems and architectures
Physical
and MAC-Layer Protocols
Intelligent Agents for Network & Data
Management
Network Switching Architectures and Protocols
Modeling and
simulation of tactical communications systems
Real-time Fault Tolerant
Protocols
Quantum Key Distribution in SATCOM
Authors should follow the Computer Networks
(Elsevier) manuscript format described at http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/comnet.
Prospective authors should initially submit a PDF version of an Extended
Abstract of their proposed paper topic and relevant details (not to exceed three
pages) to Professor Gerard Parr at: gp.parr@ulster.ac.uk by Thursday
31st August 2003. On review of the extended abstracts complete manuscripts
will be invited according to the following timetable :-
Manuscript Due : Friday 31st
November 2003
Acceptance Notification : Friday 23rd February
2004
Final manuscript Due : Friday 16th May 2004
Publication
Date : October 2004
Guest Editors:
Professor Gerard
Parr
Chair in Telecommunications
Internet Technologies Research
Group
School of Computing and Information Engineering
University of Ulster
Coleraine
Campus
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom BT52 1SA
Tel: +44 (0) 28 70
324131
Fax: +44 (0) 28 70 324916
E.mail: gp.parr@ulster.ac.uk
Dr David Robinson
Senior
Engineer/Scientist
KIS COM MSIN
QinetiQ, Malvern, PC316
United
Kingdom
LTC Dr. Erdal Cayirci
Director of Combat Models
Operations Department
Turkish War Colleges
Yeni Levent, 80625
Istanbul
Turkey
Dr Jadranka Alilovic-Curgus
Research
Scientist
Boeing Research Laboratories
The Boeing Company
Seattle,
USA
Dr. David H. Hughes
Physicist
US Air Force
Research Laboratories /IFGC
525 Brooks Rd.
Rome, New York,
USA