Call for Papers

       European Transactions on Telecommunications (Wiley)
   *Special Issue on Self-Organization in Mobile Networking*

        http://kom.aau.dk/~ff/documents/cfp-ett-so.html
   http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/104087069


Current systems for mobile communication, such as GSM, UMTS, and IEEE
802.11, require manual configuration and central management both for
deployment and operation. Such a paradigm will not be feasible any longer
in a future world of ubiquitous networking, where wireless
technologies will interconnect a tremendous number of everyday items and
embedded devices (e.g., electronic papers, sensors). An important design
aspect for future systems is to limit the administrative
requirements, thus reducing the network deployment time, cutting the
operational costs, and facilitating network management. In this
context, the term "self-organizing communication networks" has been in the
mind of researchers for some decades. During the last few years, the term
has mainly been used to describe the nature of wireless
multihop networks, so-called ad hoc networks. Although ad hoc networks are
expected to play an important role in future systems,
self-organization is more than "just" multihop communication. We
invite original technical articles on self-organization in cellular, IP,
ad hoc, and sensor networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Principles, paradigms, and building blocks for self-organization in
  mobile networks
- Application of concepts for self-organization from
  natural and social sciences
- Protocols and algorithms for
  self-organization of mobile networks, in particular for medium access
control, resource management (radio, energy), clustering, routing,
transport, and service discovery
- Mobility and topology issues
- Scalability issues
- Applications, services, and middleware
- Security, cooperation, and fairness

Submission Instructions:

Papers should have a length of no more than 15 pages (using 11 point font
and about 35 lines per page). Please submit the paper
electronically in PDF using the EDAS platform (http://edas.info). All
submitted papers must not have been previously published and must not be
submitted for publication elsewhere while they are under
consideration.

The following deadlines will apply:

- Submission of manuscripts       August 31, 2004
- Notification of acceptance      October 30, 2004
- Submission of final manuscript  December 15, 2004
- Publication                     March/April 2005 (Issue No. 2)


Guest Editors

- Christian Bettstetter, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
- Frank Fitzek, Aalborg Univ., Denmark
- Hannes Hartenstein, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
- Guy Pujolle, University Paris VI, France
- Paolo Santi, CNR, IIT, Pisa, Italy


Note: Papers for which a major revision is recommended will not be
accepted for the special issue, but will be considered for publication in
revised form in one of the regular issues of ETT.