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Call for Papers

    IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Special Issue on
    Wireless Mesh Networking: Theories, Protocols, and Systems
    http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/mesh_cfp.htm

    SUBMISSSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to: April 15, 2005.

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Wireless mesh networking has become an indispensable technique for the next
generation wireless networks. It is critical to large-scale wireless networks
with no pre-existing infrastructure. It enables quick-and-easy extension of a
local area network into a wide area. Prior efforts on wireless networks,
especially multi-hop ad hoc networks, have led to significant research
contributions that range from fundamental results on theoretical capacity
bounds to various flavors of routing and transport protocols. However, the
work is far from enough. The state-of-art is insufficient for deploying
sizable wireless mesh networks. Important aspects such as network radio
range, network capacity, scalability, manageability, and security remain open
problems.

To address capacity and scaling concerns, researchers are experimenting with
systems that use multiple radios, frequency-agile radios, directional and
multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antennas. Further, there are renewed
interests in carrying out research on MAC protocols and cross-layer design
that breaks the traditional networking layering norm. It is clear that such
novel techniques are needed to increase system capacity, extend network
range, and increase scale, if such networks are to become viable. Similarly,
while there exist several security protocols for wireless networks,
especially for IEEE 802.11 WLANs, it is still not clear how one can build a
trustworthy network in a multi-hop ad hoc environment like wireless mesh
networks. Finally, although new research results are published each year,
progress on practical protocol implementation and system integration has
lagged considerably. To ensure wireless mesh networks to be widely deployed,
many research groups are starting to accumulate practical experience through
building testbeds and deploying trial systems. In parallel to these efforts,
several IEEE standard groups are also actively pursuing wireless mesh
networking techniques.

This special issue is devoted to the research and development of practical,
deployable, and low-cost wireless mesh networks. Papers from both industry
and academia will be solicited through an open call-for-papers. Topics of
interests include, but are not limited to,
  -- Techniques for capacity and range extension
  -- Multi-radio, multi-spectral systems
  -- Cognitive and frequency-agile radios
  -- Multichannel MACs, MAC protocol for directional antennas and MIMO systems
  -- High-performance scalable single-channel MACs
  -- Programmable MACs
  -- Cross-layer design and optimization
  -- Trustworthy networks, privacy and security models
  -- Incentives, cooperation, and reputation systems
  -- Mobility, power, and topology management
  -- Network management with zero-configuration
  -- Practical system architecture of wireless mesh networks
  -- Testbed and deployment experience
  -- Application and usage scenarios
  -- Emerging standards: IEEE 802.11s, IEEE 802.15.5, IEEE 802.16 mesh,
     IEEE 802.20 mesh

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SUBMISSION

    Manuscript Due:            April 15, 2005
    Acceptance Notification:    August 15, 2005
    Final Manuscript Due:        October 15, 2005
    Publication:            December, 2005

Prospective authors should follow the following guidelines to prepare their
manuscripts: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html

Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers
to Xudong Wang (wxudong@ieee.org) no later than April 1, 2005.


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