Call for Papers

IEEE Wireless Communications — Special Issue on

Cognitive Wireless Networks

Recently cognitive radios have been introduced as a new paradigm for spectrum sharing. The spectrum policy and regulations community is also sharing with communications engineers the interest on cognitive radios. The main emphasis is currently on looking at cognitive radios as "agile radios" that can provide better utilization and flexibility for spectrum sharing, and introducing policy based access methods such as in the recent DARPA XG project approach. However, this is only one aspect of a larger context, where cognitive and intelligent methods can be used to enhance all system aspects, including networking as well. In fact, cognitive radios were originally defined as a context sensitive smart radio platform: this is clearly a long term research vision, and similar approaches and technologies can also be applied in the networking domain, making the protocol layers reconfigurable and collaborating via cross-layer interactions and learning algorithms. In addition, these same technologies can be also employed to enhance many existing and future wireless systems and to facilitate their integration.

This special issue aims at providing broad coverage of cognitive radio and cognitive wireless networks technologies. We seek papers dealing with architectural issues, theoretical studies, new paradigms, but also contributions on enabling technologies for cognitive wireless networks, practical implementations, and policy issues. The papers in this Special Issue will focus on state-of-the-art research at various layers in the protocol stack, as well as covering full cognitive systems aspects. Topics of interest include:

We will publish papers that are tutorial in nature and written in a style comprehensible to readers who are not necessarily specialists on the subject matter of the article. Papers presenting original contributions will also be considered, as long as the presentation is accessible to wireless communications engineers and the paper length is kept within the proper limits. For manuscript submission, authors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine manuscript format described in the "Information for Authors" at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit the all-in-one PDF version of their complete manuscripts via email to both Guest Editors by July 1, 2006. The important dates for this special issue are given as follows:

Manuscript Submission Due:      July 1, 2006
Acceptance Notification:     Oct 1, 2006
Final Manuscript Due:     Dec 15, 2006
Publication:     first half 2007

Guest Editors

Petri Mähönen
RWTH Aachen University
pma@mobnets.rwth-aachen.de

Michele Zorzi
DEI - University of Padova
zorzi@dei.unipd.it