[Tccc] IEEE Wireless Comm. SI on Multihop Cellular

Dr. Ying-Dar Lin ydlinatcs.nctu.edu.tw
Sat Jun 1 14:54:59 EDT 2013



 Call for Papers

IEEE Wireless Communications Feature Topic on
"Multi-hop Cellular: From Research to Systems, Standards, and Applications"  

It has been more than 10 years since the Multi-hop Cellular Networks (MCN) 
architecture was first proposed in the year 2000. Fundamental researches 
have demonstrated the benefits of MCN in terms of system capacity, service 
coverage, and network connectivity. The actual concept behind the MCN 
architecture could be regarded as relaying within a cell, or operating 
base stations or access points with ad-hoc or mesh networking. This concept 
also pushed standard bodies to consider their solutions embedded with mesh 
or ad-hoc architectures, such as IEEE 802.11s, IEEE 802.16j, and IEEE 
802.15.5. Now in the recent standards of 3GPP, ProSe (Proximity-based 
Services) and GCSE_LTE (Group Communication System Enablers for LTE) related 
working items also cover the device-to-device (D2D) communications with or 
without infrastructure. After many researches on protocols and architectures 
for IEEE series specifications have been done for Single-RAT (Radio Access 
Technology) MCN based on analytical models and simulations, other issues 
related to implementation, deployment and operations have emerged. From the 
3GPP aspect, many research issues are still pending. For Multi-RAT MCN, 
further researches have to be done in considering the RAT capabilities of 
devices. This feature topic would serve as a state-of-the-art snapshot in 
these exciting developments, including but not limited to:

- Design and deployment guidelines for MCN
- Implementation and test bed issues for MCN
- Power saving in MCN
- Cross-layer ID allocation and mapping in MCN
- Path switch between direct/infrastructure links in MCN
- Discovery and self-organization with ad-hoc networking in MCN
- Network management in MCN: privacy, security, routing, and mobility
- Resource management in MCN: single/multi radio access technology (RAT) and 
power control
- Group communications in MCN
- Multi-hop content sharing in MCN
- Ad-hoc networking at the edge of MCN for disaster relief or military 
operations
- New application scenarios in MCN: service models, security, charging, 
billing
- Bandwidth aggregation in multi-RAT MCN
- System capacity modeling and analysis for Multi-RAT MCN
- Cross-layer, cross-RAT collaborative algorithms in Multi-RAT MCN
- Network/RAT selection and multi-homing routing in Multi-RAT MCN

Submission
With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, 
prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications 
guidelines for authors that can be found at 
http://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag/paper-submission-guidelines.

Schedule
Manuscript Submission: January 15, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2014
Final Manuscript Due: July 1, 2014
Publication: October 2014

Guest Editors
Ying-Dar Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 
yd... at cs.nctu.edu.tw
Yu-Ching Hsu, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 
yuch... at itri.org.tw
Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA, 
mai... at eecs.ucf.edu
Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, tk... at sce.carleton.ca


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