IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology special Issue on "Achievements and the Road Ahead: The First Decade of Cognitive Radio"

Dear all colleagues,



We are delighted to inform you of the upcoming IEEE Transactions on
Vehicular Technology (TVT) special issue on "Achievements and the Road
Ahead: The First Decade of Cognitive Radio". Please find the Call for Papers
(CFP) attached.



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A decade after Cognitive Radio (CR) first entered the lexicon of wireless
communications, this special issue aims to bring together a comprehensive
view of the major achievements and developments in this field. Through
critical analysis of the state-of-the-art, a further aim is to highlight
significant research challenges that remain for CR and CR Networking (CRN),
and to present pioneering solutions to resolve such issues. This special
issue also strives to point the way forward regarding the significant
potential for CR and CRN to be employed within vehicular domains.



In line with the above objectives, original and unpublished submissions are
solicited with relevant topics, including but not limited to:



* CR enhanced Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure
(V2I) communications,
* CR enhanced vehicular ad hoc networks,
* CR enhanced radio resource management and QoS support in vehicular
environments,
* PHY and MAC techniques for CR,
* Cognitive radio networking,
* Information theoretic analyses of CR,
* Interference mitigation in shared spectrum environments,
* Security issues for CR,
* Software Defined Radio (SDR) and reconfigurability,
* Standardization efforts such as IEEE 802.22, IEEE P1900 (SCC41),
IEEE 802.16h, etc.,
* Higher layers and interdisciplinary research on CR (AI, computer
vision, neural networks, etc.),
* Intelligent radio and cognition cycle considerations,
* Coding for CR channels,
* Biologically-inspired networking for CR,
* Study of applications and social impacts of CR, such as on public
safety,
* Cooperative networking with shared resources,
* Cross-layer designs and architectures for CR,
* Beam-forming and MIMO for interference avoidance in the CR context,
* Self-organizing networks and autonomic communications,
* Policy and policy languages for shared spectrum management,
* Spectrum sensing techniques,
* Ultra-wideband for spectrum sharing in CR,
* Game theoretical analysis for CR.



Submission instructions can be found at the link:
http://transactions.vtsociety.org/



Timeline:



* Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2009,
* First Review Deadline: August 1, 2009,
* Revised Paper Deadline: October 1, 2009,
* Second and Final Review Deadline: December 1, 2009,
* Revised Manuscript Deadline: January 15, 2010,
* Publication: May 2010.



Co-guest editors:



Prof. Joseph Mitola III (Corresponding Guest Editor)

Stevens Institute of Technology, USA



Dr. Alireza Attar

King's College London, UK



Prof. Honggang Zhang

Zhejiang University, China



Dr. Oliver Holland

King's College London, UK



Dr. Hiroshi Harada

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan



Prof. Hamid Aghvami

King's College London, UK



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Honggang ZHANG, Professor, Ph.D.

Department of Information Science & Electronic Engineering

Zhejiang University

Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, CHINA

Tel: +86-571-87952022 Fax: +86-571-87952022

Email: honggangzhang-AT-zju.edu.cn

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