[Tccc] CFP: Electrical and Computer Engineering, SI on Femtocell and Relay Networks, Deadline Extended to April 9, 2012

Honghai Zhang honghaiz
Thu Mar 15 12:07:18 EDT 2012


Call for papers for a special issue of
Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
devoted to
Femtocell and Relay Networks

Guest Editors:
Honghai Zhang, NEC Labs America, Princeton, NJ 08520, USA
Chonggang Wang, InterDigital Communications, King of Prussia, PA 19406, USA
Hwangnam Kim, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Republic of Korea
Jiangzhou Wang, University of Kent, Kent CT2 7NZ, UK

Introduction
Mobile wireless data traffic is expected to grow exponentially in the next
few years as smart phones and tablets continue to proliferate and generate
increasing amount of traffic. Various technologies are proposed to boost
the wireless networking capacity. Among them, femtocell and relays are the
most promising and natural way of increasing wireless networking capacity
by shortening the distance between transmitters and receivers. These type
of small-cell networks have drawn much attention in both industry and
research communities and have been recognized as an integral technology for
4G mobile networks. Nevertheless, many unplanned femtocells and relay nodes
impose significant challenges on broadband wireless networks such as
interference mitigation, load balancing, and self-organization.This special
issue aims to bring together novel academic and industrial research
contributions in this area. We solicit original work in femtocell and
relay-based mobile broadband wireless networks.

Topics
Interference analysis, avoidance, and cancellation
Dynamic resource allocation and scheduling
Spectrum sharing and load balancing
Self-organization, self-configuration, and self-healing
Power saving and energy conservation
Efficient caching mechanisms
Wireless video transmission
Cross-layer design
Mobility management and handoff
Cognitive and collaborative communications
Measurement, prototyping, and implementation
Performance analysis and simulations
Novel network protocols and architectures
Security issues
Cooperation and synchronization between macrocells and femtocells and among
femtocells
Multiantenna/MIMO relaysUser-centric wireless networking

Paper Submission
Submissions of both in-depth research papers and review papers are
encouraged.Before submission authors should carefully read over the
journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jece/guidelines/. Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
journal Manuscript Tracking System at
http://mts.hindawi.com/author/submit/jece/ (after login, select the special
issue on Femtocell and Relay Networks).

Extended Deadline: April 9th, 2012.



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