Call for Papers

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

   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.