Context 2016 - Special issue on "Context-Aware Communications and Networking ? an Important Paradigm for 5G Networks"

Various researchers have concentrated on the benefits that can be achieved by exploiting the presence of rich
context information. As the advantages of such approach can be easily foreseen, the drawbacks can also be noted,
including wireless security or reliability and accuracy of the stored data. All of these aspects have to be considered in
developing new solutions that take advantages of the additional information.
Another issue is created by more and more challenging expectations of the end-users, just to mention the need for
detailed localization information both indoors and outdoors, for data and multimedia delivery every time and
everywhere, rapid file sharing in the form of cellular broadcasting, wireless car video, etc. All of these possible future
applications will require reliable access to various sources of context information. This is also related to the further
increase of back-haul traffic that is exchanged within the network or stored in cloud databases
The goal of this special issue is to concentrate on all aspects and future research directions related to context-aware
communications.
Scope
Original papers are solicited on topics of interest that include, but are not limited to:
- Architectures for context-aware communication and networking (CACN)
- Information theory aspects of context-aware networking
- The role of rich context information in interference and radio resource management
- CACN solutions for dense heterogeneous wireless networks
- Front- and back-haul issues for context-aware networks
- Carrier aggregation and coordinated solutions for CACN
- Routing in CACN
- Security aspects in CACN
- 3GPP and non-3GPP convergence, including traffic offloading
- Context-aware communications for SON
- Context-aware communications for D2D communications (e.g., LTE-direct, WiFi-direct)
- The role of context information in cognitive radio and networks
- Spectrum sharing strategies in future networks
- Context information in car communications
- Context information in public service systems
- Big-data processing in CACN
- The role of databases (e.g., REMs) in future (5G) networks
Submission procedure:
All papers have to be submitted using the following link and instructions presented on the target web-page:
www.editorialmanager.com/wire
Review and publication:
Only high quality papers with strongly positive reviews will be finally accepted for publication.
All accepted papers will be published in form of a bunch of papers with the dedicated Editorial.
Dates:
Submission deadline: 15 September 2015, 23.59 UTC
First Round of Reviews: 15 February 2016
Final notification of acceptance: 15 March 2016
Delivery of camera ready paper: 31 March 2016
Guest Editors:
- Dr Adrian Kliks, Poznan University of Technology, Poland, akliks-AT-et.put.poznan.pl (Lead Guest editor)
- Dr. Nikos Dimitriou, National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Greece,
nikodim-AT-iit.demokritos.gr
- Dr Oliver Holland, King’s College London, UK, oliver.holland-AT-kcl.ac.uk
Acknowledgements:
Adrian Kliks is supported by NEWCOM# European Project (http://www.newcom-project.eu/) as well as by the Polish
Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the status activity task “Cognitive radio systems”.
Nikos Dimitriou is supported by the "SYNAISTHISI" project, which is co-financed by the Greek Ministry of Education
and the European RDF of the EC under the Operational Program "Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship".