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Journal of Communications (JCM, ISSN 1796-2021)
http://www.academypublisher.com/jcm/si/

Special Issue on Seamless Mobility in Wireless Networks

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2010

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The advances in wireless technologies and mobile devices have enabled
the realization of a wide range of wireless networking opportunities.
The coexistence of wireless heterogeneous networks has been widely
recognized, and it has become more and more common that new mobile
devices get equipped with multiple and heterogeneous wireless interfaces.
Furthermore, the recent advances in software-defined and cognitive radio
technologies promise even more diversity and heterogeneity. This brings
about a lot of opportunities and challenges for mobile wireless networking.

With the emerging wireless technologies, mobility has more generic meaning
than just node movement as in the traditional sense. It also means that
when the operational environment changes (such as frequency and power),
a node or the network adapts to the environmental changes, which requires
the cognitive capability. On one hand, it is of critical importance that
seamless, low latency and transparent services are provided to the users,
via potentially multiple heterogeneous wireless technologies or opportunistic
spectrum access involved during the course of node movement or environmental
changes. Environment cognizance, spectrum-aware mobility management, and
vertical handoff become critical components in the solution space. On the
other hand, host and network mobility also affects the performance of
network protocols significantly, while at the same time allows opportunistic
interconnections of heterogeneous networks, which in turn makes mobility
adaptability an important design issue. This asks the design of wireless
architectures, protocols, spectrum management, and mobility management
mechanisms to be revisited.

The Special Issue on Seamless Mobility in Wireless Networks welcomes
original submissions from both researchers and practitioners that explore
recent advances in architecture, system, protocol, modeling, and testbed
design, as well as emerging applications and standards to enable seamless
mobility and transparency in wireless networks. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:

- Architecture, system, and protocol design for seamless roaming support
in wireless networks

- Spectrum cognition and agility associated with mobility

- Vertical handoff and seamless integration of heterogeneous networks

- Location tracking, positioning, and address management

- Mobility modeling and theoretical/experimental validation

- Mobility impact on routing, resource/power/QoS management

- Adaptive and resilient protocols for seamless mobility support at all layers,
as well as cross-layer approaches

- Security and privacy issues under mobility and network access

- Emerging standards and applications on mobility

- Simulation/testbed tools and experimental measurements


Important Dates:
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Submission Deadline : July 15, 2010
Author Notification : September 15, 2010
Final Manuscript Due : October 15, 2010
Publication Date : January 2011


Guest Editor:
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Subir Das, Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

Jing Deng, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Mario Gerla, University of California at Los Angeles

Nada Gomie, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Jason H. Li, Intelligent Automation, Inc.

Jiang (Linda) Xie, University of North Carolina at Charlotte