Call for
Papers
IEEE Communications Magazine
Feature
Topic on
Network Centric Military
Communications
The design and fielding of military
communications systems capable of enabling truly Network Centric
Warfare (NCW) remains one of the greatest challenges facing military
institutions today. The challenges are particularly acute in the area
of tactical wireless communications, which are typically
characterized by user mobility and unpredictable transmission
channels. Together with demanding security requirements and the need
for interoperability among disparate systems, including legacy
systems and those of allies, these characteristics make it difficult
to leverage commercial wireless technology to meet the needs and
expectations of military users. Some of these difficulties can be
traced back to a lack of fundamental theoretical underpinnings for
communications networks, a problem that is widely recognized today
and beginning to receive significant attention in academia and
industry alike. While network theoretic frameworks for wireless
systems remain elusive, there is a plethora of interesting work being
pursued to improve the optimality of wireless system design, some of
which include the adoption of new design paradigms. This is
particularly important in the development of Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
(MANETs), which exhibit a lower degree of predictability than other
wireless networks such as cellular and satellite communication
networks. Cross layer design remains a popular approach to
minimizing inefficiencies associated with strictly layered design
paradigms in highly dynamic wireless environments. Researchers are
also focusing on the idea of exploiting the inherent broadcast
properties of wireless networks through the development of
cooperative diversity protocols, though practical applicability in
highly mobile environments remains a question. Network coding is an
example of another promising, and increasingly popular, approach
aimed at improving the throughput of multi-hop wireless networks.
Other areas of research, including network security, mobile routing,
dynamic resource allocation, management and media access control,
continue to play an important role in the struggle to improve the
feasibility of truly network centric operations.
This Feature
Topic will bring together the most recent advances in communications
and networking technologies applicable to the area of network centric
military communications. Papers are solicited that present research,
development, experimentation, test and measurement, and practical
deployment activities.
Suggested areas include (but are not
restricted to) the following subject categories:
- Advances in the development of a Network
Theory
- Cross-layer design and optimization
- Network
management and control in tactical networks
- Network
characterization and modeling
- Protocol efficiency on
bandwidth constrained links
- Mobility
management
- Signaling and Quality of Service
provisioning
- Mobile routing
- Network security and
information assurance
- Cooperative
Diversity
- Freespace Optical Communications
- Network
coding
- Dynamic spectrum allocation and
management
- Airborne networks
- Space-based
networks
Submission
Articles should be
tutorial in nature and be of direct interest to those engineering
military communication systems. They should be written in a style
comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article.
Mathematical equations should not be used (In justified cases up to
three simple equations could be allowed, provided you have the
consent of the Guest Editor. The inclusion of more than three
equations requires permission from the Editor-in-Chief). Articles
should not exceed 4500 words. Figures and tables should be limited to
a combined total of six. Complete guidelines for prospective authors
can be found at: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html.
Please send PDF (preferred) or MSWORD formatted papers by March 1,
2007 to Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com),
resister or log in, and go to the Author Center. Follow the
instructions there. Select the topic "October 2007/Network Centric
Military Communications".
Schedule for
Submissions
Submission Deadline: March 1,
2007
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2007
Final
Manuscript Due: July 15, 2007
Publication Date: October
2007
Guest Editors
Torleiv Maseng
Forsvarets
Forskningsinstitutt
Post Box 25
2027 Kjeller,
Norway
Phone: +47 63807204
Email: torleiv.maseng@ffi.no
Randall
J. Landry
The MITRE Corporation
202 Burlington
Rd
Bedford, MA 01730, USA
Phone: +1 781-271-8514
Email:rlandry@mitre.org