NM 2014 - IEEE Network Magazine SI on Unveiling 5G Wireless Networks: Emerging Research Advances, Prospects, and Challenges

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IEEE Network Magazine, SI on "Unveiling 5G Wireless Networks: Emerging Research Advances, Prospects, and Challenges".
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Guest editors
Prof. Victor C. M. Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Tarik Taleb, NEC Europe Labs, Germany
Prof. Min Chen, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
Prof. Dr. Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany
Prof. Li-Chun Wang, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
Prof. Rahim Tafazolli, University of Surrey, UK
Important Dates
Manuscript submission: April 1, 2014
First revision/reject notification: July 1, 2014
Acceptance notification: August 15, 2014
Final manuscript due: September 15, 2014
Publication date: November 2014
Looking forward your submissions.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Unveiling 5G Wireless Networks: Emerging Research Advances, Prospects, and Challenges
To cope with the high traffic volume demands spurred by the proliferation and penetration of 4G services,
significant improvement to wireless access techniques have been made. Notable examples are Massive
MIMO (Multiple Input and Multiple Output), CoMP (Coordinated MultiPoint transmission and reception),
and D2D (Device to Device) incorporated in 3G and 4G specifications. Furthermore, to boost network
coverage and capacity, mobile operators have been also increasingly deploying heterogeneous networks
(HetNets), consisting of micro-, pico-, and small/femto-cells. However, despite these advances in core
wireless technologies, 3GPP mobile networks still remain challenged to handle the ever-increasing
mobile traffic, particularly due to the usage of specific-purpose networking equipment that can neither
dynamically scale with mobile traffic nor be easily upgraded with new functions.
With the emergence of cloud computing as an important information technology in support of virtualized
services, it becomes promising to design 5G wireless networks by exploiting recent advances relevant
to network function virtualization and benefiting from advanced virtualization techniques of cloud computing
to build efficient and scalable networking infrastructures. Researchers have been designing new
architectures for elastically composing and operating a virtual end-to-end network platform on demand
on top of fragmented physical infrastructures provided by federated cloud. Software-defined networking (SDN)
techniques have been seen as promising enablers for this vision of carrier cloud, which will likely play
a crucial role in the design of 5G wireless networks.
This feature topic is soliciting scientific papers that address important research problems towards the
realization of 5G wireless networks. Topics of interest pertain to 5G network architecture, SDN and
network virtualization techniques enabling 5G, resource allocation algorithms in 5G, and 5G-related
control protocols and optimization techniques. Research papers that describe seamless migration
from the current 4G to 5G wireless networks and introduce brand-new networking system for 5G are
of high interest. In general, topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Software-defined networking and network function virtualization for supporting 5G wireless networks
* Cloud computing and virtualization for networking infrastructure in 5G
* 5G network architectures employing distributed antenna and radio-over-fiber techniques
* Algorithms for ensuring scalability and elasticity for cloud-based 5G wireless networks
* Online optimization for function splitting, migration of virtual resource in data centers for 5G wireless networks
* New data center techniques for mobile operators in 5G
* System design for supporting multi-spectrum, multi-RAT (Radio Access Technology), and multi-operator
* Spectrum sharing between M2M (Machine to Machine) and LTE-A in 5G wireless networks
* Effective in-network caching design of pre-, in-, and post-processing resources in 5G wireless networks
* Content-centric networking architecture design and studies in 5G
* Design, implementation and deployment for 5G wireless networks
* Mobile traffic redundancy elimination and data offload in 5G wireless networks
* Green communications, cloud and software defined radio (SDR) technologies for radio access network in 5G
* Protocol design to enable traffic load balancing, traffic management, and management of virtualized
network functions in 5G wireless networks
* QoS (Quality of Service) and QoE (Quality of Experience) improvement in 5G wireless networks
* SDN-based protocols and algorithm for cognitive, scalable and reliable cooperation and communication
* SDN-based new evolution of 3GPP standards for 5G wireless networks
* Spectral-efficiency and energy-efficiency in 5G wireless networks
* Mobile social networking over 5G wireless networks
* Design of 5G wireless networks supporting smart transportation, energy and healthcare applications
* 5G-relevant wireless network test-beds, simulators, open-source codes, and tools
* Security, privacy and trust for virtualization and SDN in 5G wireless networks
PAPER SUBMISSION
With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective authors should
follow the IEEE Network submission guidelines available
at http://www.comsoc.org/netmag/paper-submission-guid.... Authors should submit their manuscripts
via Manuscript Central, choosing "Unveiling 5G: Emerging Research Advances, Prospects, and Challenges"
from the drop-down menu on the submission page. The corresponding author is also requested to send
the title of the submission and the list of authors by email to Dr. Tarik Taleb and Prof. Min Chen
at talebtarik-AT-ieee.org and minchen-AT-ieee.org, respectively.