CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on Group Communications in Ad hoc Networks
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC)

http://academic.udayton.edu/DucTran/research/cfpIJWMC.htm

ISSN (PRINT): 1741-1084
ISSN (ONLINE): 1741-1092
Published by Inderscience Publishers

Important Dates
       Manuscript submission deadline: June 10th, 2004
       Notification due date: September 10th, 2004
       Camera-ready manuscript due date: November 1st, 2004
       Publication: Issue 3, 2005

Guest Editors
       Dr. Duc A. Tran (duc.tran@notes.udayton.edu)
       Department of Computer Science
        University of Dayton
       300 College Park
       Dayton, OH 45429

       Dr. Deb A. Agarwal (daagarwal@lbl.gov)
       Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory      
       1 Cyclotron Road, MS 50B-2239              
       Berkeley, CA 94720                      

       Dr. Mark D. Yarvis (mark.d.yarvis@intel.com)
       Intel Research and Development
       Intel Corporation, JF3-206
       2111 N.E. 25th Ave.
       Hillsboro, OR 97124-5961

Subject Coverage

Since people frequently work beyond their office desk, it is expected that
the next generation of communication networks will include rapid deployments
of independent mobile users.  With the emergence of wireless technologies
such as IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth, mobile users are enabled to connect to
each other directly and wirelessly without any networking infrastructure,
such as the Internet or infrastructure-based wireless networks.  Instead,
users form mobile ad hoc networks (MANET). These networks are
self-configurable and self-healable, and therefore easily adopted in a home
environment and more cheaply deployed and maintained in a business
environment.

While ad hoc networks are rapidly gaining in popularity, group communication
technologies have already shown their importance in education, entertainment,
business, military, and other industries.  However, thus far those
technologies have mainly been designed for use in the Internet.  This special
journal issue is focused on development of group communication solutions in
ad hoc networks.  This work is significant to many interesting applications. 
Examples are strategic collaboration among soldiers in a battlefield,
collaborative data processing such as tracking and localization in sensor
networks, collaborative intrusion detection among a group of distant
surveillance cameras, to name just a few. Also relevant to ad hoc networks is
the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P). P2P networks are commonly used in the
Internet to enable services that leverage a collection of peer nodes rather
than a single infrastructure server, making them resilient to the failure of
an individual node.  These properties are attractive for applications
deployed in ad hoc wireless networks, which have similar requirements.
 
Research on group communications in ad hoc networks is still in its infancy. 
There are many open issues due to the deviation between resource, energy, and
bandwidth availability of ad hoc networks and the quality of service required
by group communication services.  Areas of interest for this special journal
issue include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Ad hoc networking architectures with inherent P2P communication support
- Use of P2P technology for ad hoc network formation and management
- Multicast routing in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks
- Algorithms for reliable delivery and congestion control in ad hoc networks
- Location and mobility management in ad hoc group communications
- Algorithms for self-configuration, maintenance, and stabilization
- Data management, operating system, and middleware for ad hoc group communications
- Security and privacy in ad hoc group communications
- Collaborative multimedia systems in ad hoc networks
- Collaborative signal processing and information retrieval in ad hoc networks
- Innovative applications of group communication in ad hoc networks

Paper Submission

Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations,
fax and telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. Please submit full papers in
PDF via email to one of the guest editors. Submitted papers must not be
previously published nor submitted for publication elsewhere. Accepted papers
will not exceed 6000 words or 15 single spaced pages in IEEE Transactions
style. Hard copies should only be sent if electronic submission is not
possible. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a selected panel of referees.
Original artwork and a signed copy of the copyright release form will be
required for all accepted papers.