SWAN 2016 - Hoc Networks Journal on " Smart Wireless Access Networks and Systems For Smart Cities"

Call for Papers for the Special Issue of the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks
Journal on "Smart Wireless Access Networks and Systems For Smart Cities"
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/c...
AIMS AND SCOPE
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The main goals of a smart-city are to improve sustainability and livability,
to ease city government and organization, and to increase services to the
citizens. The primary role of ICT in enabling this vision is to keep the
decision makers, the stake holders and the citizen constantly updated with
fresh information collected around the city. To accomplish this task, next
generation cities, will be populated with billions of heterogeneous devices
ranging from tiny communicating objects (e.g., actuators, sensors, tags)
able to interact with the surrounding environment and remote systems, to
high-end nodes (e.g., data centers, workstations) capable of complex
operations and to process a huge amount of information.
In this futuristic scenario a very special role is played by citizens with
their smartphones, tablets and portable devices. They are constantly
connected with whatever surroundings them and they are formidable
information consumers. Their role however does not end here. Smartphones, in
fact, are very powerful devices with constantly increasing processing,
communication and sensing capabilities and very recently, a large plethora
of proposals have emerged to leverage those capabilities to contribute to
the information production process. For instance, citizens roaming around
the city may be considered as mobile probes which, by making uses of cyber
and physical data accessible by smartphones, can analyze the situation and
produce reports to the community. Furthermore smarthphones can actively
contributing in creating the communication infrastructure by forwarding data
coming from surrounding devices.
All in all, cities are going to became a new complex ecosystem which has the
potentiality to offer many amazing feature and support innovative
application. Unfortunately, fully exploiting, managing and accessing that
ecosystem are still far to be fully viable and their fulfillment surely
poses a formidable challenge.
This Special Issue aims to solicit contributions on novel algorithms,
methodological studies and experimentations on how to address the formerly
highlighted issues. Specifically on how devise a city-wide networking
infrastructure capable to efficiently guarantee communication in the new
envisaged ecosystem, to manage the complexity of heterogeneous devices and
access technologies, and to guarantee robust, ubiquitous, and secure
connectivity over the urban environments. At the same time, beside studying
the issues of the city-wide infrastructure deployment, the workshop aims to
investigate the potential provided by the end-users devices (e.g.
smartphones, tablets) when augmented in order to turn them into active
components of the smart-city ecosystem, instead of mere connection
end-points. Such a potential includes the possibility to extend the network
access in a pervasive way, to provide ubiquitous computing services, and to
favor the emergence of "collectivity intelligence behaviors" through
collaboration and direct communication among devices.
In lines with such objectives, the topics of interests include -but it is not limited to- the following issues:
. Models of network components' interactions on a smart-city
. Novel communication protocols for M2M Communications;
. Device-2-Device Communications (D2D);
. IoT architectures and middlewares;
. Self-organizing wireless networks for pervasive urban access;
. Network virtualization for heterogeneous wireless networks;
. Systems for distributed Sensing and Control in Smart Cities;
. Smartphone-based sensing systems, tools, applications in Smart City environments
. Crowd sourcing in smart cities;
. Dynamic trust management models for Smartphone based networks and applications;
. Cooperation incentive models for Smartphone based networks and applications;
. Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust in smart cities ecosystems;
. Business model to promote users collaboration and resources sharing in smart cities ecosystems;
. Testbed on the feasibility of Smartphone based networks and interaction with Cyber physical Systems;
. Applications, Business, Standards, and Social Issue;
. Security models to promote Smartphone collaboration and resources sharing;
. Cooperative systems of Smart Objects supporting Wireless Networks Interoperability and Management
IMPORTANT DATES
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Manuscript submission: 1st August 2015
Notification of acceptance: 1st February 2016
Final Manuscript Due: 1st March 2016
Online Publication: 1st May 2016
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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All submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as
published in the Journal website at
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks.
Authors should select "SI: SWANSITY", from the "Choose Article Type"
pull-down menu during the submission process.
All contributions must not have been previously published or be under
consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more
papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions
over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are
requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously
published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made
in the journal version.
GUEST EDITORS OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE
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* Valeria LOSCRI'
Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN
valeria.loscri-AT-inria.fr
* Pasquale PACE
University of Calabria - Italy
ppace-AT-dimes.unical.it
* Zhengguo SHENG
University of Sussex, UK
z.sheng-AT-sussex.ac.uk
* Giuseppe RUGGERI
University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria - Italy
giuseppe.ruggeri-AT-unirc.it
* Athanasios V. VASILAKOS
Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
athanasios.vasilakos-AT-ltu.se