[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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