[Tccc] CFP: Springer's PPNA Special Issue on Machine to Machine Communications, Submission due by Nov. 15

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Tue Nov 8 07:37:54 EST 2011


Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (SCIE indexed)
Special Issue Call for Papers
The Green, Reliability and Security of Machine-to-Machine Communications

Machine-to-machine communications is an emerging technology that 
realizes a system of networks, wireless or wired, possibly distributed 
across the world, for transmitting events captured by low-end machines 
such as sensors and smart meters to high-end applications and/or 
personal appliances, where the events are translated into meaningful 
information. It embraces several major research fields including 
wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, smart grid and RFID, and 
enables future ubiquitous computing environment. Unlike current 
world-scale human-centric 3G wireless networks, M2M communication 
network is characterized by the absence of direct human intervention and 
the rapid increase in size and is therefore imposed with unique 
requirements.

With ever-decreasing cost of deployment of M2M communication devices and 
access to public wireless data networks, and thanks to its potential to 
support a large number of ubiquitous characteristics and achieving 
better cost efficiency, M2M communications has quickly become a market-
changing force for a wide variety of real-time monitoring applications, 
such as remote e-healthcare, smart homes, utility management, 
environmental monitoring and industrial automation. However, the 
flourishing of M2M communications still hinges on fully understanding 
and managing the existing GRS challenges: Green (i.e., energy 
efficiency), Reliability and Security.

The objective of this special issue is to bring together state-
of-the-art contributions on the GRS aspects of M2M communications. It 
aims to provide an environment conducive of cross-fertilization between 
researchers from different areas spanning wireless sensor networks, 
vehicular networks, smart grid and RFID, all relevant, in one way or 
another to the advance and realization of M2M communication paradigm. 
Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of M2M 
communications.

Possible topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to 
the following:
* GRS in wireless sensor, actuator and robot networks 
* GRS in vehicular networks and intelligent transportation systems
* GRS in smart grid
* GRS in RFID technologies
* GRS in interworking for M2M communication
* GRS modeling for M2M communication
* GRS in emerging M2M applications

IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2011
* Notification to authors:?? March 1, 2012
* Revisions:???????????????? April 15, 2012
* Data of Publication:?????? 2012

PAPER SUBMISSION
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has 
neither appeared in, nor under consideration by, other journals.
Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Peer-to-Peer 
Networking and Applications a web-enabled online manuscript submission 
and review system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track 
the review process of their manuscript. This online system offers easy 
and straightforward long-in and submission procedures, and supports a 
wide range of submission file formats. Manuscripts should be submitted 
to: http://PPNA.edmgr.com. Choose ?The GRS of M2M Communications? as the 
article type.

To avoid delays, authors of submissions that, in the opinion of the 
editors, fall out of scope of this issue will be notified promptly.??? 

GUEST EDITORS
Dr. Xu Li, INRIA Lille ? Nord Europe, France 
Dr. Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada 
Dr. Nathalie Mitton, INRIA Lille ? Nord Europe, France 
Dr. Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA 




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