[Tccc] CFP IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
Laura Galluccio
lgalluccio
Mon Jan 16 03:56:17 EST 2012
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Call for Papers
IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Special Issue on
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS at the NANOSCALE
Submission deadline: February 1, 2012
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In the recent years, nanotechnologies advanced and rapidly developed due to their numerous potential applications, in
particular in healthcare and medical scenarios. The potentialities in the use of nanoscale devices rely also on the
interdisciplinary nature of the competences required going from material science, to micro-biology, bio-chemistry, just to
name a few. While research led to improve capabilities of individual nanoscale devices, two aspects, which deserve
attention and have been only slightly addressed, are wireless nanodevices communications and networking. Integrating
advanced communication and networking capabilities to nanoscale devices, can dramatically improve the provided
functionality and open new opportunities for nanotechnology applications. Example applications are not only limited to
healthcare, but can also be extended to food and water quality control, air pollution monitoring, nuclear, biological and
chemical defense.
However, unlike conventional communication systems, communicating at the wireless nanoscale brings along new
challenges. For example, new frequency bands have to be utilized ? in the order of the Terahertz ? due to the nanoscale
size of nanomachines and, thus, their antennas; also nanonetworks require a large set of functions to be performed
including addressing, information propagation, medium access control. However, traditional solutions may not be applied
due to very strict constraints in terms of computing and communication capabilities characterizing nanomachines. These
challenges can only be addressed through new communication paradigms. The aim of this special issue is to collect high
quality research papers on both theoretical and practical aspects of Wireless Communications at the Nanoscale. The
special issue will also collect comprehensive survey papers, where topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Architectures, topologies, and algorithms for wireless nanoscale communications and nanonetworks
* Modeling and analysis of wireless nanocommunications
* Wireless nanoscale communications with nanoptics and nanophotonics
* Information theoretical approaches to wireless nanoscale communications
* Nanocomponents/structures for wireless communications (e.g., graphene, nanoribbons, carbon nanotubes (CNT))
* Wireless nanoscale ad hoc and sensor networks
* Wireless quantum communication networks
* Applications for wireless nanoscale communications
* New wireless nanoscale communication paradigms
* Energy models for wireless nanocommunications
* Protocols for wireless electromagnetic/molecular communications
Submission Instructions and Important Dates:
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Authors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the manuscript and
submit it via Manuscript Central at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. Articles should have no more than 4500
words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and the abstract should have no more than 250 words. With regard to both content
and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications
guidelines for authors that can be found at: http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/info/sub_guidelines.html.
Submission Deadline: February 1, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2012
Final Manuscripts Due: July 1, 2012
Publication Date: October, 2012
Guest Editors:
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Laura GALLUCCIO (laura.galluccio at dieei.unict.it)
University of Catania, Italy
Ozgur B. AKAN (akan at ku.edu.tr)
Koc University, Turkey
Sasitharan BALASUBRAMANIAM (sasib at tssg.org)
Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland.
Raghupathy SIVAKUMAR (siva at ece.gatech.edu)
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Dr. Laura Galluccio, Ph. D.
University of Catania
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica ed Informatica
V.le A. Doria 6
95125 Catania, Italy
laura.galluccio at dieei.unict.it
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