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Special Issue on
Cooperative and Cognitive
paradigms for Green HetNets
IEEE Wireless Communications
Magazine
Special issue on "Cooperative and
Cognitive paradigms for Green HetNets" The world is becoming an
energy conscious society having a profound impact on today's digital
revolution. One of the biggest impediments of future wireless
communications systems is the need to limit the energy consumption of
battery-driven devices so as to prolong the operational times and to
avoid active cooling. In fact, without new approaches for energy
saving, there is a significant threat that 4G mobile users will be
searching for power outlets rather than network access, and becoming
once again bound to the pre-historic world of fixed line
communications. If we are to maintain market sustainability, then
there is a clear need for prolonged battery lifetime: the word mobile
is taken as de facto, in that users have the freedom to roam around
and be connected to the best available technology at any time;
however, if preventive measures are not taken to conserve energy,
then users could be restricted to the nearest power supply falling
victim to the so called "Energy Trap". Green Terminals for the future
network have the aim to avoid falling victim to the energy trap of 4G
mobile systems in HetNets by investigating and demonstrating energy
saving technologies for multi-standard wireless mobile devices,
exploiting the combination of cognitive radio and cooperative
strategies while still maintaining the required performance in terms
of data rate and QoS to support active applications. The joint
application of these two technologies in HetNets has led towards new
paradigms in network design and deployment for energy saving,
providing a stepping stone towards economic and environmental
sustainability for the future. This notion is further extended by
investigating lightweight security approaches, which are a pivotal
requirement when the wireless link goes beyond the trusted circle of
users and involves a foreign proxy device that requires new ways of
managing confidentiality, integrity and authentication.
Scope of Contributions
This special issue
includes different aspects on green HetNets ranging from radio
protocols to energy efficient networking topologies, and lightweight
security. This special issue will bring together academic and
industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges
and recent results related to cognitive radios and cooperative
strategies for energy savings on the mobile terminal side, as well as
on the network side. This special issue focuses on the state-ofthe-
art research and development in various aspects of cooperative and
cognitive radio technologies for saving energy for next generation
HetNets. 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:
- Energy-efficient cooperative and cognitive
communication
- Context awareness and signalling for
energy saving strategies
- Short range energy efficient
communication
- Cooperative relaying for energy
saving
- Energy efficient reconfigurable radios and
software defined radios
- Energy-efficient cooperation in
homogeneous and heterogeneous networks
- Experimental
testbeds and results for energy efficient communication
techniques
- Standardization and regulatory aspects
and activities for energy efficient communication
- Advanced
energy saving strategies in different technologies, including
Bluetooth, DVBH, UWB, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and LTE
- New
Business models and Novel Applications for Energy saving
- Lightweight security.
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://www.comsoc.org/wirelessmag/paper-submission-guidelines.
Papers must be submitted in an all-in-one PDF format to Manuscript
Central http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm.
An 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: April 15 2013
Acceptance Notification: July 20
2013
Final Manuscript Due: September 1, 2013
Publication:
October 2013
Guest Editors:
Dr. Shahid
Mumtaz (smumtaz@av.it.pt), Instituto de Telecomunicacões,
Portugal
Prof Lie-Liang Yang (ll-yang@ieee.org), University of
Southampton
Prof Kwang-Cheng Chen (chenkc@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw),
National Taiwan University Prof
Xianbin Wang (xianbin.wang@uwo.ca),
University of Western Ontario Prof. Abd-Elhamid M. Taha (ataha@alfaisal.edu), Alfaisal
University, Riyadh, KSA