IJCNDS 2011 - Special Issue on: "Techniques and Applications for Merging Mobile and Cloud Services"

Special Issue on: "Techniques and Applications for Merging Mobile and Cloud Services"

Int. J. of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journ...

Guest Editors:
Professor Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Professor Yingyuan Xiao, Tianjin University of Technology, China

Mobile and cloud computing has emerged rapidly as an exciting new paradigm that offers a challenging model of service computing and poses fascinating problems regarding distributed resource management, ranging from information sharing to cooperative computing.

This special issue is intended to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of integration of mobile and cloud services, including the topics of virtualization, dynamic resource provisioning, energy efficient, collaboration environment, implementations, running experiments, deployment on real systems and novel applications associated with this paradigm. Papers are expected to focus on state-of-the-art technology advances towards realizing mobile and ubiquitous service environments for advanced applications and services in mobile clouds. The issue will serve as a landmark source for education, information, and reference to researchers, professionals, and graduate students interested in this fascinating area.

Subject Coverage

Topics of solicited original research papers include, but not limited to:

Power-aware profiling, modeling, and optimization
Software as a service (SaaS)
Virtualization technologies
Cloud-based services and education
Novel programming models for cloud computing
Mobility, location and handoff management
Traffic and congestion control, QoS, resource management
Management of wireless and mobile networks
Security in wireless and mobile environment
Networks convergence and integration
Applications and services based on wireless infrastructures
Cross-layer optimizations in wireless networks
Emerging wireless technologies
Wireless and mobile network deployment
Circuits for wireless communications
Spectrum allocation and management
Performance analysis, simulation and testing of wireless and mobile systems

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a double-blind review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Manuscript submission deadline: 30 April, 2011

Notifications: 30 June, 2011

Revised submission: 31 July, 2011

Final notification: 15 September, 2011

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word or PDF file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Professor Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Chung Hua University
Taiwan
Email: chh-AT-chu.edu.tw
Web: http://www.chu.edu.tw/~chh

Professor Yingyuan Xiao
Head of Department
Department of Computer and Communications Engineering
Tianjin University of Technology
China
Email: yingyuanxiao-AT-gmail.com