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Special Issue on
Mobile Cloud
Computing
IEEE Wireless Communications
Magazine
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 demanded 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 Original, unpublished contributions and survey/tutorial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.
Important Dates
Submission Deadline:
November 1, 2012
Acceptance Notification: February 1,
2013
Final Manuscript Due: April 1, 2013
Publication:
June 2013
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