WMCNT'09 2010 - Special Issue on "Mobile Computing and Networking Technologies"

The new social, economic and technological trends having evolved worldwide such as the increasing demand for productivity and effectiveness with the pressure to respond immediately to customer requirements have created increased need for access to information anywhere in the world at anytime.
Considering the present telecommunication environment, which is an
amalgamation of a large number of networks and administrative domains
employing various access technologies, combined with the increased user
mobility makes it difficult to promise the same grade of service quality atall parts of the network. The convergence of information communications technology and computing is creating new demands and opportunities for ubiquitous computing via wireless and mobile equipment without technologicalrestrictions.

The demanding networking environment of wireless communications imposes
several challenges in terms of network design, channel estimation,
propagation and radio resource management offering a variety of high qualitymultimedia applications. Overcoming these issues becomes even more demanding due to non-uniform spectrum allocation, various radio resource managementpolicies, economic concerns, the scarcity of radio resources, the inherent transmission impairments of wireless links, and user mobility.

This Special Issue aims to publish high quality, original, unpublished
research papers covering all aspects related to Mobile Computing and
Networking Technologies. In addition, this Special Issue collects extended versions of best papers from IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing and Networking Technologies 2009 (WMCNT09).



Special Issue Topics



Authors are solicited to submit original unpublished papers in the
following, but not limited to, topic areas:





QoS in wireless/mobile systems

End-to-End QoS

Mobility management in wireless networks

Modeling analysis and simulation

Wireless access techniques

Wireless propagation and channel modelling

Wireless/Mobile network architectures

Digital audio and video on wireless networks

Experimental systems and field trials

Wireless communication networks and systems

Wireless system services and applications

Security, scalability and reliability in wireless/mobile networks

Wireless / Mobile Internet

Wireless LANs and PANs

Body Wireless Networks

Wireless mesh networks

Wireless Mobile ad-hoc networks

Planning and standardization

Cognitive radio networks

Cross-layer adaptation design and optimization

Heterogeneous wireless networking

3G, 4G, and beyond system

Next generation networks

Systems interoperability

Radio resource management

Reliable broadcast/Multicast wireless technologies for multimedia
applications

Performance evaluation of new wireless standards for high-quality
entertainment environments









Submission Guidelines



Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions
representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness,and clarity of exposition. Authors should follow the TelecommunicationSystems
(http://www.springer.com/business/business+informat...) manuscript format as described in the Instruction to Authors. Manuscripts(pdf and source files) must be directly emailed the following email address: wmcnt09-AT-gmail.com with clear indication that the submission is for the Special Issue Mobile Computing and Networking Technologies (use "SI Submission - MCNT - JTS" as the e-mail subject). All manuscripts should include a cover letter containing the title of the paper, full names and affiliations, complete postal and electronic addresses, phone and fax
numbers, an abstract, and some keywords. The contacting author should be clearly identified. Moreover, a short biography (up to 200 words) and a jpg picture of each author should be given at the end of the manuscript. All papers will be peer reviewed based on their originality and high scientific quality. In addition, this Special Issue collects extended version of best papers from IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing and Networking Technologies 2009 (WMCNT09), which should be a least 30% new compared to the workshop papers.
For further questions or inquiries, please contact us at the following email address: wmcnt09-AT-gmail.com.



Important Dates



Submission Deadline March 10, 2010

First Notification of Acceptance May 1, 2010

Final Notification of Acceptance July 1, 2010

Camera Ready Final Manuscript Due September 1, 2010

Publication Date 2011



Guest Editors:





Dimitrios G. Stratogiannis*

Wireless and Satellite Communications Group School of Electrical and
Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens

(NTUA)

Greece

E-mail: dstratog-AT-mail.ntua.gr





Georgios I. Tsiropoulos*

Wireless and Satellite Communications Group

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

National Technical University of Athens

(NTUA)

Greece

E-mail: gitsirop-AT-mail.ntua.gr





Prof. Yevgeni Koucheryavy

Department of Communications Engineering

Tampere University of Technology

(TUT)

Finland

E-mail: yk-AT-cs.tut.fi





Dr. Alexey Vinel

St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of Russian Academy
of Sciences (SPIIRAS)

Russia

E-mail: vinel-AT-ieee.org





Eirini- Eleni I. Tsiropoulou

Network Management & Optimal Design Lab

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

National Technical University of Athens

(NTUA)

Greece

E-mail: eetsirop-AT-hotmail.com