From sudhir.dixit@nokia.com Tue Dec 21 21:44:52 2004 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 15:16:53 -0500 From: sudhir.dixit@nokia.com To: wwrf-steeringboard@wireless-world-research.org, vision-committee@wireless-world-research.org, sig3@wireless-world-research.org Cc: sarma@netlab.nec.de Subject: [WWRF-SIG3] Call for Papers for a Feature Topic in IEEE Communications Magazine [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Dear Colleagues, You are invited to submit papers for consideration for publication in the IEEE Communication Magazine on the Feature Topic, "Advances in Self-Organizing Networks," to be published in the July 2005 issue. The CFP can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/cfpcommag705a1.htm. It is also being copied below. All submissions will be peer reviewed per the normal publication policy of the magazine. Wishing you and your family a most joyous Holiday Season and best wishes for a prosperous and Happy New Year. Regards, Sudhir Dixit and Amardeo Sarma +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Papers - IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic: Advances in Self-Organizing Networks The size of the Internet continues to grow unabated, especially with the rapid adoption of the mobile and fixed wireless connecting a myriad of devices and sensors at homes and businesses. All this will certainly add to the spatio-temporal complexity of the network topology and dynamics, increasing the burden on network administrators and users. Although much work has been done in ad hoc networking in self-configuration, multi-hop routing, etc, they all rely on the traditional networking protocols in computer networks at short ranges. A fresh look is needed to design and develop self-organizing networks that will enable minimize human intervention as much as possible. In addition, applied self-organisation must be reliable, trustworthy and robust to be accepted as a viable paradigm.The major objective of the feature topic is to expose the networking research and development community to the latest breakthroughs in the field of self-organizing networks. Papers will provide an insight into how self-organization can bring order into an ever-growing and increasingly chaotic Internet, as well as directing and stimulating future research in the area. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): * Aspects of complexity in the Internet being considered by physicists, mathematicians, biologists, chaos theorists, economists, dynamical systems theorists, game theorists, telecommunications experts * Application of "small-world" and "scale-free" to self-organizing communication networks * Laboratory implementations and examples * Automatic connection to available networks, including self-organization of multiple radio interfaces * Self-configuration of attached devices and networks * Adaptive and self-organizing ambient aware applications, services, and middleware * Security and trust in self-organizing networks * Reliability and robustness of self-organizing networks * Self-organization based on policies * Robust software and hardware technologies for reliable self-organization * Self-organization and reconfiguration of the transport network to meet the individual and collective needs of applications and services * Self-adaptation following change, both normal and disruptive or catastrophic * Automatic adaptation of protocols and software to meet the desired goals and objectives * Relationship and automatic handling of local and global information Prospective authors should email their manuscripts as a postscript or pdf attachment to the guest editors by January 31, 2005. (Please see http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html for the author's guidelines.) The following is the timetable for this feature topic publication: Manuscript Submission January 31, 2005 Acceptance Notification March 31, 2005 Final Manuscript Due April 15, 2005 Publication Date July 2005 Guest Editors: Sudhir Dixit and Amardeo Sarma Nokia Research Center NEC Europe Ltd., Network Laboratories 5 Wayside Road Kurfürstenanlage 36 Burlington, MA 01803 69115 Heidelberg, Germany sudhir.dixit@nokia.com sarma@netlab.nec.de sudhir.dixit@ieee.org