CALL FOR PAPERS

		Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
		Special Issue on: Network Applications
	     **** Submission Deadline: July 15, 2005 ****

Aims and Scope

Combinatorial optimization is widely used in networking research for  
network infrastructure deployment, resource management, as well as a broad 
range of network operations such as routing, QoS provisioning, etc. To 
advance and promote the theory and applications of combinatorial 
optimization in communication networks, we initiate this special
issue. The scope of this issue includes all combinatorial optimization 
problems arising in optical networks, wireless ad hoc networks, sensor 
networks, mobile communication systems and satellite networks.


Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Energy efficient operation of ad hoc and sensor networks
- Media Access Control in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
- Routing in wireless ad hoc networks
- Data fusion and aggregation in sensor networks
- Topology control in ad hoc networks
- Low power design in sensor networks
- Resource management in wireless cellular networks, ad hoc networks and 
sensor networks
- Security and key management in wireless ad hoc networks
- Fault tolerant topology control and routing
- Queue management and QoS provisioning
- Call admission control and scheduling
- Complexity analysis and algorithm design for emerging problems in 
Internet, optical networks, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, cellular 
networks, and satellite networks

Important Dates

Paper Submission: July 15, 2005
Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2005
Final Papers Due: October 1, 2005
Publication of Special Issue: December 2005


Paper Submission

The manuscripts should be prepared in PDF format and sent to Dr. Maggie 
Cheng at chengm@umr.edu. The preferred length of papers published in this 
special issue is approximately ten pages.

Guest Editor
Maggie Cheng
Computer Science Department
University of Missouri
Rolla, MO, 65401, USA
E-mail: chengm@umr.edu