[Tccc] M2M Special Issue (deadline 1 Oct 2012)

Chonggang Wang cgwang833atyahoo.com
Tue Sep 25 12:26:45 EDT 2012



 Call for Papers :IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Special Issue on 
Machine-to-Machine Technologies & Architectures  

An unprecedented communication paradigm facilitating the connection between a 
prior unseen number of devices is currently gripping both industrial as well as 
academic communities. Referred to as machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, it 
is essentially composed of three key ingredients: 1) a wireless end-device, 2) 
an infrastructure-based or infrastructure-less wireless carrier network, and 3) 
the back-end server network. M2M systems bear very specific and unparalleled 
challenges in both research and development. Prime design drivers here are the 
need for virtually zero-outage, immediate-response and high-efficiency to 
support reliable, green, long-living and delay-constrained M2M applications. 
With no clear winner established so far, two orthogonal approaches have thus 
commenced to contend for the M2M market, i.e. 1) cellular solutions which rely 
on wide coverage (GSM, UMTS, LTE, LTE-A, etc.); and 2) purely embedded 
short-range solutions relying on
 cheap deployments (low-power Wi-Fi, ultralow-power Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc.). 
The aim of this special issue on machine-to-machine is to collect from 
industrial and academic players tutorials and surveys related to latest M2M 
technologies and architectures. Contributions on major developments and updates 
on M2M systems will be considered. Of great interest are currently being 
standardized, already standardized but also promising M2M technologies and 
architectures. 

The topics relevant to this special issue include but are not limited to:
 data centric approaches (M2M data fusion, aggregation, source coding, signal 
processing, etc.)
 protocol centric approaches (novel PHY, MAC and networking paradigms, etc.)
 technology centric approaches (cellular M2M technologies, capillary M2M 
technologies, etc.)
 architecture centric approaches (ETSI M2M, 3GPP MTC, WiMAX approaches, etc.)
 inter-system and heterogeneous approaches (M2M coexistence with other 
technologies, etc.)
 key functionalities (security, synchronization, virtualization, etc.)

Papers must be tailored to the problems of M2M and explicitly consider their 
constraints in terms of large number of nodes, short messages, resource 
constraints, etc. The editors maintain the right to reject papers they deem to 
be out of scope of this special issue. Only originally unpublished 
contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers 
should be formatted according to the IEEE-TTS guidelines 
(http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/authors.html). Authors should submit a 
PDF version of their complete manuscript via Manuscriptcentral 
(http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/comst-ieee) according to the timetable below.

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: 1 October 2012
Author Notification: January 2013
Final Manuscript: May 2013
Publication:  Q3 2013

Guest Editors:
Mischa Dohler  CTTC, Spain (mischa.dohler atcttc.es; supported by EXALTED)
Joerg Swetina  NEC Labs Europe, Germany (joerg.swetina at neclab.eu)
Angeliki Alexiou Univ. of Piraeus, Greece (alexiou atunipi.gr; supported by 
EXALTED)
Chonggang Wang Interdigital, USA (chonggang.wang atinterdigital.com)
Patricia Martigne Orange, France (patricia.martigne atorange.com)
Kan Zheng  BUPT, China (zkan atbupt.edu.cn)
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