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Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012
Acceptance Notification: February 1, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: April 1, 2013
Publication: June 2013
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
Special Issue on Mobile Cloud Computing
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Latest advances in mobile communication networks and increasing penetration of smart phones are transforming the mobile Internet and empowering end users with rich mobile experience. However, the limited computing and information/energy storage capabilities of mobile devices are hampering their abilities to support increasingly sophisticated applications demanded by users. The emerging cloud computing technology offers a natural solution to extend the limited capabilities of mobile devices. The resulting new paradigm of mobile cloud computing is being embraced by researchers and practitioners as an exciting new way to extend the capabilities of mobile devices and mobile platforms, which has the potential for profound impacts on the business environment and people's daily life.
Empowered by mobile cloud computing, previously infeasible mobile applications are finding their ways into mobile devices. These emerging applications range from mobile storage and synchronization, fast content delivery, audio/video streaming, to interactive rich media services. Nevertheless, the implementation and wide deployment of these applications are complicated by various technical challenges across different layers in wireless networks. For example, there is a need to better understand the gaps between the quality of service (QoS) requirements of cloud-based applications and the variable performance of wireless networks due to the dynamic channel environments, and to develop novel solutions to overcome these gaps. Moreover, the design and operations of mobile cloud computing should also be sensitive to the limited energy supply in the mobile devices and system-wide energy conservation in general. As a result, advanced cognitive and adaptive techniques are highly deman
ded for mobile cloud computing. Moreover, new perspectives can be taken by both academic researchers and practitioners to demystify the technical challenges and propose ground-breaking solutions.
Scope of Contributions
This special issue aims to explore recent advances and disseminate state-of-the-art research on designing, building, and deploying novel services and technologies to enable Mobile Cloud Computing. Original, unpublished contributions and survey/tutorial type articles will be considered for the special issue. The topics of interest for the special issue include, but are not limited to:
Multi-technology and multi-device access to mobile cloud computing
Cognitive and ubiqutous access control for mobile cloud computing
Access and communication schemes for cloud computing in mobile environment
Flexible architecture of mobile technologies for supporting cloud computing
Cloud computing to enable mobile rich media
Cloud-based mobile audio/video streaming techniques
Cloud-assisted 3D/multiview rending for mobile devices
Cloud-based real-time interactive multimedia service for mobile users
Performance evaluation of rich media service supported by mobile cloud computing
Quality of Experience (QoE) studies and improvements for mobile cloud computing
Green Mobile Cloud Computing
Dynamic allocation alogrithms of computing load and networking load for mobile devices
Energy-efficient multimedia service in mobile cloud computing
Energy consumption measurement and profiling of mobile devices for cloud computing
Power efficiency in datacenter management for mobile cloud applications
Next-generation Mobile Cloud Computing Services and Applications
New applications for cloud-supported mobile online gaming and other entertainments.
Scalable live broadcasting for mobile users supported by cloud computing
New convergence services supported by mobile cloud computing techniques (e.g., monitoring, transportation, smart grid, healthcare, etc.)
Social networking services and mobile cloud computing
Security and privacy issues in mobile cloud computing
Cloud-based Ubiquitous Networking
Cloud-based support of device and user mobility
Cloud-based multi-technology access management
Cloud-based radio resource management in wireless networks
Cloud-based radio link optimization techniques
Manuscript Submission
Authors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the manuscript. For further details, please refer to "Submission Guidelines" in IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine website at: http://dl.comsoc.org/pci/. Papers must be submitted in an all-in-one PDF format to Manuscript Central http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. A paper should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and its abstract should have no more than 250 words. Any submission that fails to comply the guidelines will be rejected without review.

Guest Editors
Victor C.M. Leung (vleung@ece.ub.ca), University of British Columbia, Canada
Yonggang Wen (ygwen@ntu.edu.sg), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Min Chen (minchen@ieee.org), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Chunming Rong (chunming.rong@uis.no), University of Stavanger, Norway