CALL FOR
PAPERS
IEEE Wireless Communications
Magazine
Special Issue on
Dependability Issues
with Ubiquitous Wireless Access
Recent years have
witnessed a proliferation of the number of wireless technologies
available to access the Internet. While the emergence of these new
technologies can enable truly ubiquitous Internet access, it also
raises issues with the dependability of the Internet service
delivered to users. Indeed, wireless Internet access is, when
compared to traditional wired access solutions, more prone to
security attacks and less predictable in terms of the Quality of
Service (QoS) experienced by users. This poses serious challenges to
the provisioning, in this context, of a dependable Internet service
that meets the users' requirements in terms of security, QoS,
reliability and availability, among others.
In order to meet the
above requirements on dependability, new solutions such as security
and QoS mechanisms need to be designed for the wireless access.
Several issues need to be addressed in the design of such dependable
wireless solutions, including the following: (1) the open nature of
radio communications provides serious exposure to security attacks;
(2) the limited capacity and shared nature of the wireless medium
complicates the provisioning of Quality of Service; (3) inherently
unpredictable wireless channel characteristics make it hard to
guarantee availability; (4) exploitation of resources due to selfish
and malicious behavior is difficult to prevent; (5) the emergence of
new paradigms, such as opportunistic spectrum usage and
self-organizing networks, promise improvements but introduce new
challenges to dependability.
This special issue will focus on recent
research results on dependability issues with ubiquitous wireless
access in the context of wireless technologies including WLAN,
cellular and broadcast systems, ad-hoc and mesh networks, among
others. Topics of interest include, although are not limited to, the
following:
- Predictable shared medium access
mechanisms
- Techniques for identifying and controlling
selfish users
- Security mechanisms and protocols for the
wireless access
- Wireless Quality of Service
provisioning
- Countering Denial-of-service attacks in
wireless networks
- Metrics for measuring
dependability
- Privacy-aware dependable operation for
wireless networks
- Dependable opportunistic spectrum
techniques
- Dependability in self-organizing
networks
- Reliable and ubiquitous emergency
services
- Dependable services for mobile
users
Submission
Articles should be tutorial
in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers
outside the specialty of the article. All submissions will be
reviewed based on technical merit and relevance. Mathematical
equations should not be used (in justified cases up to three simple
equations could be allowed, provided the consent of the Guest
Editors). Articles should have no more than 4,500 words, 6
tables/figures, or 15 references. Guidelines for prospective authors
can be found on-line at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html.
Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted
papers to Albert Banchs (banchs@it.uc3m.es) no later than
1 December 2007. Accepted papers will also be included in Wireless
Communications Interactive (WCI), the online version of Wireless
Communications Magazine.
Manuscript Due 1
December 2007
Acceptance Notification 15
March 2008
Final Revised Manuscript Due 15 May
2008
Publication August 2008
Guest
Editors
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Prof. Albert Banchs
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Prof. Virgil Gligor
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Prof. Daji Qiao
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Dr. Dirk Westhoff
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Carlos III
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University of Maryland
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Iowa State University
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