Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 
Special Issue on 
Wireless Ad hoc Networks: Technologies and Challenges
 
Topic and Scope:
---------------- 
The Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) seeks
original research and review articles for a special issue on Wireless Ad hoc
Networks: Technologies and Challenges.   

Both wire-line and wireless networks must consist of infrastructure stations
that provide connectivity.  However, multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks
eradicate the costs of infrastructure deployment, setup, and
administration.  Multi-hop ad hoc wireless networks allow anywhere, anytime
network connectivity with complete lack of control, ownership, and
regulatory influence.  The growing interest in such networks originates from
their suitability for different types of application scenarios ranging from
futuristic subscription-free civilian communication to present
military-driven operations.  Since there is no requirement for a fixed
infrastructure, the network is composed of fixed and mobile wireless
devices.  
 
Ensuring energy-efficient and QoS-based communications in a wireless mobile
ad hoc network is a challenging, but yet intrinsic, issue and is highly
dependent upon routing, Medium Access Control (MAC) and connection/session
admission control.  Conforming to QoS service-level agreements and
minimizing power consumption depend on the chosen route from the source
mobile station to the destination mobile station.  This special issue will
address routing, connection/session admission control, distributed
contention-based MAC, as well as contention-free dynamic channel allocation
schemes, infrastructure formation schemes, energy efficiency, QoS, as well
as other timely topics.  

The goal of this special issue is to provide a comprehensive overview of the
miscellaneous technologies and challenges pertaining to wireless ad hoc
networks, to present novel solutions to overcome those challenges, to
publish original articles of interest to researchers and practitioners in
this field, and to advance the state of the art of ad hoc networks.  Papers
are solicited in all aspects of wireless ad hoc networks technologies.  In
addition to the aforementioned topics, topics of interest include, but are
not limited to, the following: 

- PHY: de/modulation, transceiver design, multi-packet reception (MPR), 
  directional antennas, exploiting directional antennas for MAC and QoS,
  etc.
- MAC: single-channel, multi-channel
- Scheduling: scheduling and load balancing, joint scheduling and power
  control, etc.
- Broadcasting: optimal, probabilistic, etc.
- Routing: fair routing, incorporation of linear and non-linear
  optimization, etc.
- Distributed positioning: GSP-free positioning
- Location-inspired designs
- Virtual Wireless Infrastructures: heuristics, near-optimal, VWI for
  efficient cross-layer interactions, etc.
- Security: key management, WPA vulnerability, etc.
- Disruptive applications (telemedical, biological, etc)
- Body area ad hoc networks
- M-commerce
- Self-configurable wearable ad hoc networks
- Non-monolithic/shared conceptual models for context-awareness
- Cross-layer design: integration of PHY, MAC, routing and application aspects
- Performance evaluation and modeling

Important dates:
----------------
          Submission deadline:                         September 16, 2005 
          Decision notification:                       February 1, 2006 
          Final manuscript due:                        March 31, 2006 
          Publication of Special Issue:                3rd or 4th Quarter, 2006
 
Submission instructions:
------------------------
All manuscripts should be sent by email to the Guest Editors, and must be in
PDF format.  Additional information for authors, including guidelines for
manuscripts, is found at
 http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html.


Guest Editors:
--------------
Prof. Ahmed M. Safwat
Laboratory for Advanced Wireless Networks
Department of Electrical and Computer Eng.
Queen’s University
Kingston, ON, Canada
E-mail: Ahmed.Safwat@queensu.ca 
 
Prof. Mohamed Younis
Dept. of Computer Science and Elect. Eng.
University of Maryland Baltimore County,
1000 Hilltop Circle, 
Baltimore, MD 21250
E-mail: younis@csee.umbc.edu 

Dr. Sebnem Zorlu Ozer
Mesh Networks Product Group
Motorola, Inc.
Maitland, FL, USA
E-mail:Sebnem.Ozer@motorola.com