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============================================================== Call for Papers
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Special Issue on
Wireless Mesh Networking: Theories, Protocols, and Systems
http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/mesh_cfp.htm
SUBMISSSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to: April 15, 2005. ==============================================================
Wireless mesh networking has become an indispensable technique for the next generation wireless networks. It is critical to large-scale wireless networks with no pre-existing infrastructure. It enables quick-and-easy extension of a local area network into a wide area. Prior efforts on wireless networks, especially multi-hop ad hoc networks, have led to significant research contributions that range from fundamental results on theoretical capacity bounds to various flavors of routing and transport protocols. However, the work is far from enough. The state-of-art is insufficient for deploying sizable wireless mesh networks. Important aspects such as network radio range, network capacity, scalability, manageability, and security remain open problems.
To address capacity and scaling concerns, researchers are experimenting with systems that use multiple radios, frequency-agile radios, directional and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas. Further, there are renewed interests in carrying out research on MAC protocols and cross-layer design that breaks the traditional networking layering norm. It is clear that such novel techniques are needed to increase system capacity, extend network range, and increase scale, if such networks are to become viable. Similarly, while there exist several security protocols for wireless networks, especially for IEEE 802.11 WLANs, it is still not clear how one can build a trustworthy network in a multi-hop ad hoc environment like wireless mesh networks. Finally, although new research results are published each year, progress on practical protocol implementation and system integration has lagged considerably. To ensure wireless mesh networks to be widely deployed, many research groups are starting to accumulate practical experience through building testbeds and deploying trial systems. In parallel to these efforts, several IEEE standard groups are also actively pursuing wireless mesh networking techniques.
This special issue is devoted to the research and development of practical, deployable, and low-cost wireless mesh networks. Papers from both industry and academia will be solicited through an open call-for-papers. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, -- Techniques for capacity and range extension -- Multi-radio, multi-spectral systems -- Cognitive and frequency-agile radios -- Multichannel MACs, MAC protocol for directional antennas and MIMO systems -- High-performance scalable single-channel MACs -- Programmable MACs -- Cross-layer design and optimization -- Trustworthy networks, privacy and security models -- Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems -- Mobility, power, and topology management -- Network management with zero-configuration -- Practical system architecture of wireless mesh networks -- Testbed and deployment experience -- Application and usage scenarios -- Emerging standards: IEEE 802.11s, IEEE 802.15.5, IEEE 802.16 mesh, IEEE 802.20 mesh
============================================================== SUBMISSION
Manuscript Due: April 15, 2005 Acceptance Notification: August 15, 2005 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2005 Publication: December, 2005
Prospective authors should follow the following guidelines to prepare their manuscripts: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html
Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to Xudong Wang (wxudong@ieee.org) no later than April 1, 2005.
============================================================== GUEST EDITORS
Xudong Wang Senior Staff Research Engineer Kiyon, Inc. La Jolla, CA 92037 Phone: +1 858-453-4708 Fax: +1 858-453-3647 Email: wxudong@ieee.org
Victor Bahl Senior Researcher and Manager Systems and Networking Group Microsoft Research Redmond, WA 98052 Phone: +1 425-706-1021 Fax: +1 425-936-7329 Email: bahl@microsoft.com
Jean-Pierre Hubaux Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland Phone: +41 21-693-2627 Fax: +41 21-693-6610 Email: Jean-Pierre.Hubaux@epfl.ch
Sunghyun Choi Assistant Professor Seoul National University Seoul, Korea Phone: +82 2-880-1753 Fax: +82 2-887-1753 Email: schoi@snu.ac.kr