Kluwer Academic Publishers in cooperation with ACM announce a Special Issue
   of the Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networking and Applications
        (MONET) on Non-Cooperative Wireless Networking and Computing

                             With Guest Editors


   Xiang-Yang  Li
   Department of Computer Science,
   Illinois Institute of Technology,
   10 West 31^st Street,
   Chicago, IL 60564
   Email: xli@cs.iit.edu


   Xiao-Hua  Jia
   Department of Computer Science,
   City University of HongKong, HongKong
   Email: jia@cs.cityu.edu.hk

   Ophir  Frieder
   Department of Computer Science,
   Illinois Institute of Technology,
   10 West 31^st Street,
   Chicago, IL  60564
   Email: ophir@cs.iit.edu


   YanTai  Shu
   Department of Computer Science
   TianJin Univeristy, TianJin, P.R.China
   Email: ytshu@tju.edu.cn

Overview

   Recent  years  saw  a  great  amount of research in wireless networks,
   especially  wireless  ad hoc networks. These works involve a number of
   theoretical  aspects  of  computer  science,  including  approximation
   algorithms,  computational  geometry,  combinatorics,  and distributed
   algorithms.  Much  of  the existing work in wireless ad hoc networking
   assumes  that each individual wireless node (possibly owned by selfish
   users)  will  follow  prescribed protocols without deviation. However,
   each  user may modify the behavior of an algorithm for self-interested
   reasons.  Several  different approaches, notably the Nash Equilibrium,
   strategyproof  mechanism  design, have been developed to deal with the
   non-cooperative behavior of the wireless nodes.

Scope

   This special issue solicits the papers addressing the following issues
   for non-cooperative wireless networks, but not limited to:

   ·         MAC layer management and protocols;
   ·         Power management;
   ·         Topology Control
   ·         Network layer management;
   ·         Network control and management;
   ·         Routing protocols;
   ·         Pricing policies in public networks;
   ·         Service Provider;
   ·         Analysis and simulation protocols

Publication Schedule

   Manuscript Submission: June 30th, 2004
   Acceptance Notification: December 1st, 2004
   Final Manuscript Due: January 31st, 2005

Submission Guidelines

   All  manuscripts should be single column, double-spaced and not longer
   than   20  pages,  excluding  figures,  tables  and  references.  Each
   manuscript  should  include  the  full  list  of  authors  with  their
   affiliations, e-mail addresses, and full postal addresses. Submissions
   also  should  include  an  abstract no longer than 300 words, together
   with a list of up to five keywords or phrases.


   If  the  submission  contains previously published material, the Guest
   Editor  must  be  notified  at  the  time  of  submission.  No article
   published  in or currently submitted to other journals or books can be
   considered  for  publication.  Revised  or extended versions of papers
   printed  in  conference,  workshop,  or  symposium  proceedings may be
   submitted to this journal.


   The  authors  should  submit  the paper in PDF or Postscript format to
   Xiang-Yang Li at xli@cs.iit.edu according to the publication schedule.
   The  subject  of the email should be "MONET Special Issue Submission".
   If  email  submission is not possible, then six (6) hard copies of the
   paper should be sent by the due date to the address above.


   All   submitted   papers  will  be  reviewed  following  the  standard
   procedure.