D2D 2015 - Special Issue on D2D-based Offloading Techniques

The Device-to-Device (D2D) communication paradigm was first proposed for cellular relaying, although it has been later proposed for a large variety of applications, such as opportunistic routing, peer-to-peer, content distribution, and cellular offloading. Indeed, the recent emergence of the D2D paradigm paves the way towards improving the performance of cellular networks by means of novel opportunistic architectures, e.g, based on LTE-Direct and WiFi-Direct technologies.
This special issue will focus on theoretical research contributions presenting new techniques, concepts or analyses, and applied contributions reporting on experiences and experiments with D2D-based offloading systems. In particular, within the general framework of D2D communications and cellular offloading, we solicit manuscripts that present original and previously unpublished work on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
PHY/MAC architectures;
Opportunistic offloading;
Opportunistic medium access;
Spectrum management;
Resource optimization;
Energy minimization;
Security and privacy;
Interference management;
Coding and decoding methods;
MAC protocol coexistence;
Scheduling;
HetNets;
M2M communications;
Vehicular communications;
Content distribution architectures.
Timelines
Submission deadline: July 6, 2015
Acceptance deadline: September 30, 2015
Publication: December 2015
Guest Editors
Dr. Vincenzo Mancuso
IMDEA Networks Institute
vincenzo.mancuso-AT-imdea.org
Dr. Omer Gurewitz
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
gurewitz-AT-cse.bgu.ac.il