Call for
Papers for a Special Issue on
"Wireless Technologies
Advances for Emergency and Rural Communications"
IEEE
Wireless Communications Magazine
Wireless
communications for public safety, emergency communications and
delivery of wideband services to rural communities have been
receiving great attention from both research and industry
communities. Whenever regular communications channels are down and/or
commercial electric power systems have failed or are overloaded,
temporary and reliable back-up system must be timely put into
operation. Information dissemination during times of disasters is
vital to help public safety and relief agencies provide quick
response and support to areas hit by disasters such as floods,
earthquakes, etc. Novel broadband wireless data systems can offer
fast and effective access to databases for retrieving audio, video
and geographical information that are essential to speed up the
delivery of medical assistance and other relief efforts.
System
requirements include robustness, low cost voice/video communications,
ease of set up of different architecture functionalities (e.g. ad hoc
modes), integration and interoperability among different wireless
technologies including existing and operational systems,
plug-and-play functionalities, and security (both encryption and
authentication).
Topics of Interest
Papers in this
Special Issue will focus on new technologies for public safety,
emergency communications and delivery of wideband (i.e. Internet)
services to rural communities.
We solicit papers covering a
variety of topics that include, but are not limited to the following
subjects:
- Wireless network
architectures
- Wideband Private Mobile Radio (PMR)
standards
- Communications system operation in harsh radio
environments
- Propagation channel models
- Integration
of Terrestrial, Satellite and Navigation
Technologies
- Satellite systems and HAPS
- Techniques
for flexible spectrum usage
- Location-aware radio
techniques
- GPS and Galileo applications
- Cognitive
radio
- Software Radio & Reconfigurability
- Relay
networks, Mesh networks, ad hoc networks
- Broadband Wireless
Access
- Wireless security
Papers should be
tutorial in nature and focus on issues and findings that will
influence the development of communication services and applications
for the selected area.
Submitted papers, which should not be
considered elsewhere for publication and the authors must follow the
IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines for preparation of the
manuscripts. For further details, potential authors should refer to
"Submission Guidelines" in IEEE Wireless Communications website at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html.
Papers should have no more than 4500 words, a total of 6 figures and
tables, 15 references and 3 simple equations. Please send PDF
(preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to the
Guest Editors by email no later than 15 October
2007.
Schedule
Manuscript Submission Due: October
15, 2007
Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2008
Final
Manuscript Due: March 15, 2008
Publication Date: June
2008
Guest Editors
Prof. Ibrahim Habib
City
University of New York
New York, NY, USA
habib@ccny.cuny.edu
Dr.
Franco Mazzenga
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Rome,
Italy
mazzenga@ing.uniroma2.it