Elsevier Journal: Computer Communications

                         Special Issue Announcement



 Energy-Efficient Scheduling and MAC for Sensor Networks, WPANs, WLANs, and
                                   WMANs

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                                Guest Editor


                 Yang Xiao, The University of Memphis, USA

                        E-mail: yangxiao@memphis.edu

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   Energy efficiency is very important for all mobile/wireless devices due to
   mobility of these devices. The recent evolution of sensor networks, Wireless
   Personal Area Networks (WPANs),  Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), and
   Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (WMANs) has yielded a demand to improve
   energy-efferent scheduling algorithms and energy-efferent Medium Access
   Control (MAC) protocols. The effort to improve energy-efferent scheduling
   and MAC is linked with many technical challenges including compatibility
   with legacy networks, complexity in implementation, and practical values in
   real market, etc. The need to address energy saving solutions and provide
   timely, solid technical contributions of these networks establishes the
   motivation behind this special issue.
   This special issue focuses on the novel and practical ways to improve energy
   saving solutions for Sensor networks, WPANs, WLANs, and WMANs.


    Specific areas of interest include:
     * Energy-efficient scheduling such as sleep-mode
     * Energy-efferent MAC
     * Optimization of energy-efficient scheduling and energy-efficient MAC
     * Performance analysis and modeling of energy-efficient scheduling and
       energy-efficient MAC

   Papers  with  the following topics will not be reviewed, but should be
   submitted to the regular issues or other special issues.
     * Papers that do not 
          + focus on energy-efferent scheduling algorithms and energy-efferent
            MAC protocols;
          + belong to Sensor networks, WPANs, WLANs, or WMANs
     * Papers that focus on
          + Energy-efferent routing protocols;
          + Energy-efferent protocols/algorithms in IP layer or above;
          + Energy-efferent protocols/algorithms in PHY layer.
          + Transmission Power Management.
          + A NP-Complete or NP-hard problem

   The manuscripts should be submitted as an e-mail attachment in PDF format to
   Yang Xiao at yangxiao@memphis.edu. If the file is larger than 1MB, the
   authors are encouraged to use WINZIP. Guidelines on how to present your
   paper are given at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom. Furthermore, each
   author is required to help the review process of the special issue.

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   Schedule:

   ·        Submission deadline: Jun. 15, 2005

   ·        Notification: Oct. 1, 2005

   ·        Final Paper Submission: Oct. 10, 2005

   ·        Publication of special issue: Spring 2006
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