Call for Papers
 
Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier)
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/adhoc
 

Special Issue on:
 
Generalized Ad Hoc Networks (GAHN) and Quality of Service (QoS)
 
Data networks increasingly offer users a wide variety of networking
modalities, both wired and wireless, allowing user traffic to be routed over
many alternate paths, at different costs, with different levels of QoS,
reliability, robustness and power consumption. We will call such systems
"Generalized Ad Hoc Networks" (GAHN), and the concept includes conventional
wireless ad hoc networks.
 
By the term "user" we do not "just" mean the end user: we include a variety
of economic agents, such as ISPs, who derive benefit from the data being
carried, and we also include all the other lower level agents including
common carriers. However, the actual paths, costs, and QoS outcomes received
by these users remain generally opaque to the most of them, and appear at a
"per connection" result for the end user, and at aggregate economic levels
for many other actors. QoS itself should be understood broadly, including
concerns about reliability and robustness, power utilization, pricing and
economics and obviously also conventional QoS metrics.
 
This special issue seeks visionary and forward looking papers based on sound
technical arguments, experimental designs, measurements, or theoretical
analysis, which address QoS in GAHN. Of course, technical contributions
relating QoS to conventional wireless ad hoc networks are also welcome.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
 
- QoS and routing in AHN and GAHN
- Power aware routing
- Combining routing and priority schemes in AHN
- Composite and multicriterion QoS metrics
- Using concepts from eceonomics and game theory in GAHN
- Mixed wired and wireless AHN design
- Security in GAHN and AHN
- Experimental systems and test-beds
 
Papers not to exceed 25 pages should be submitted electronically in the form
of a postscript file, before September 1 2003, to Prof. Erol Gelenbe at
erol@cs.ucf.edu -- The time-table for this special issue will be as follows:
 
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2003
Decision Notification: Dec. 15, 2003
Publication Date: Second Quarter of 2004
 

Erol Gelenbe
 
erol@cs.ucf.edu
Tel: 407 823 0345
Fax: 407 823 5419