LARN 2015 - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - LOCATION-AWARENESS FOR RADIOS AND NETWORKS

Localization-awareness using radio signals stands to revolutionize the fields of navigation and communication
engineering. It can be utilized to great effect in the next generation of cellular networks, mining applications,
health-care monitoring, transportation and intelligent highways, multi-robot applications, first responders
operations, military applications, factory automation, building and environmental controls, cognitive wireless
networks, commercial and social network applications, and smart spaces. A multitude of technologies can be
utilized in location-aware radios and networks, including global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), RFID,
cellular, UWB, WLAN, Bluetooth, cooperative localization, indoor GPS, device-free localization, IR, Radar, and
UHF. The performances of these technologies are measured by their accuracy, precision, complexity, robustness,
scalability, and cost. Given the many application scenarios across different disciplines, there is a clear need for
a broad, up-to-date and cogent treatment of radio-based location awareness.
This special issue will bring together the latest research, innovations, and applications of location-awareness
for radios and networks. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original manuscript on topics
including, but not limited to:
Simultaneous localization and mapping techniques
Algorithms for GNSS, assisted GNSS, augmented GNSS, and pseudolites
Indoor location-aware networks (Bluetooth, Zigbee, WLAN, UWB localization)
Positioning using opportunistic signals (3GPP/LTE, 802.11x, digital TV)
Radio-based tomography, device-free localization, and through-the-wall sensing
Security and privacy aspects of positioning
Distributed, peer-to-peer, and collaborative localization and tracking
Fundamental limits and bounds on position estimation
Heterogeneous sensor fusion and hybridization algorithms for positioning
Signal design, signal detection, and parameter estimation for positioning
Testbeds, measurement campaigns, channel modeling, and experimentation
Positioning for autonomous systems (robots, planes, cars)
Interference cancelation, avoidance, and reduction techniques in the localization process
Location information for resource planning of radio and networks
Special topics on localization and tracking (cooperative localization, optimization, networked-based localization
and mapping in general sensor networks, sparsity-exploiting sensing and decision)
Prospective authors should submit their manuscripts following the IEEE JSAC format at http://www.jsac.
ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript to http:
//www.edas.info, according to the following schedule:
Initial manuscript submission: August 1, 2014
First reviews complete: November 1, 2014
Second reviews complete: January 1, 2015
Final manuscript submission: February 2, 2015
Publication date: 2nd quarter, 2015
Guest Editors
Trung Q. Duong Queen’s University Belfast trung.q.duong-AT-qub.ac.uk
Maged Elkashlan Queen Mary University of London maged.elkashlan-AT-qmul.ac.uk
George K. Karagiannidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki geokarag-AT-auth.gr
Henk Wymeersch Chalmers University of Technology henkw-AT-chalmers.se
Yasamin Mostofi University of California, Santa Barbara ymostofi-AT-ece.ucsb.edu
Byonghyo Shim Korea University, South Korea bshim-AT-korea.ac.kr.