CFP: SPECIAL ISSUE ON MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS (MANETs): Standards, Research, Applications

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

International Journal of Wireless Information Networks

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS (MANETs)
Standards,Research, Applications

General

Wireless, multihop networks (known as ad hoc networks) are
emerging as a new promising field in wireless communications.
An ad hoc network consists of nodes which organize themselves
into a network by means of distributed algorithms. Thus, in a
wireless ad hoc network there is no need for pre existing
infrastructure and centralized control, allowing ad hoc networks
to be quickly deployed. This distributed nature of ad hoc networks,
however,demands sophisticated protocols, in order to cope with the
constantly shifting topology of the network. Furthermore, these
networks are energy and bandwidth constrained. Challenges to
be resolved before MANETs can be widely deployed are, among others,
the mobility of network nodes, access performance, clustering
techniques etc

Scope

With this special issue we intend to cover topics on the design,
modeling, performance,standardization efforts and field tests
concerning MANETs. We are seeking for both tutorial and research
papers, original, unpublished and not currently under review by
another conference or journal. Specific areas of interest include
but are not limited to:

· Network architectures and protocols
· Power efficient techniques
· Access techniques
· Routing and multicasting
· Transport protocols
· Clustering
· Qos in MANETs
· Bluetooth, Hiperlan and other standardization efforts
· Implementation and testbed results
· Interoperation with cellular networks/Internet etc
· Performance Evaluation/Comparison with other techniques (wmATM etc)
· Sensor networks


Deadlines

Manuscript due:  September 15  2001
Acceptance:      December   1  2001
Camera Ready:    January    1  2002
Publication:     April         2002

Guest Editors

Mario Gerla
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Dept. of Computer Science
Email: gerla@cs.ucla.edu

Niovi Pavlidou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: niovi@vergina.eng.auth.gr

Werner Mohr
Siemens SA, Munich
Email: Werner.Mohr@icn.siemens.de


Submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit electronically (ps or pdf) manuscripts
to Dr. N. Pavlidou (niovi@vergina.eng.auth.gr) by Sept. 15 2001.
Submissions should be limited to 20 double space pages excluding
figures, graphs and illustrations. If email is impossible then six
copies of the paper should be sent to:

Dr. Niovi Pavlidou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
P.O.Box 1641, 54006 Thessaloniki, GR

For more information visit the web page:
http://www.cwins.wpi.edu/journal.html/index.html


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Evangelos Papapetrou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Telecommunications Division
54006 Thessaloniki, Greece
Tel: +30 31 996380 Fax: +30 31 996285
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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