Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks

Submission Deadline: 31 July 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks.

Saline water covers approximately 360,000,000 km2, or about 71% of the Earth’s surface, and 90% of the Earth’s biosphere. The ocean contains 97% of Earth’s water, and oceanographers have stated that less than 5% of the World Ocean has been explored. The total volume is approximately 1.35 billion cubic kilometers with an average depth of nearly 3,700 meters. Our ocean and coasts provide jobs for millions of people in coastal communities across the world. Ocean industries such as commercial and recreational fisheries, tourism and recreation, and marine transportation generate billions of dollars every year. We must protect the ocean’s long-term health, not only for the habitat and marine life that depend on it, but for the humans that have relied on its resources for generations. All of this requires maintaining a healthy ocean ecosystem, even as human demands and stress to the ocean are increasing. It is more important than ever to understand how the ocean interacts with various offshore applications. To this end, Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) play an important role for the ocean’s protection. However, ocean monitoring and research are not an easy task, since the ocean is big and most of the underwater environment is still unknown to us. In addition, due to the high pressure in deep water, it is not suitable for people to work a under water for long periods of time.

Therefore, our Special Section in IEEE Access is about emerging trends, issues and challenges in UASNs. we provide a chance for researchers to share ideas, problems and solutions for UASNs. We also welcome  submissions related to the security and reliability topics for UASNs. Typically, UASN is a hot research topic, though it has not been explored much in IEEE Access Special Sections, until now.

 

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Acoustic channel modeling
  • Data collection and processing
  • Communication architecture for UASNs
  • Ad-hoc network using autonomous underwater vehicles
  • MAC protocol design for UASNs
  • Reliable data delivery protocols for UASNs
  • Time sensitive data delivery protocols for UASNs
  • Topology control and routing for UASNs
  • Underwater localization techniques
  • Congestion control protocols for UASNs
  • Secure communication in UASNs
  • Simulation models for UASNs
  • Future technologies using acoustic sensors for UASNs

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Associate Editor:  Guangjie Han, Dalian University of Technology, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Muhammad Imran, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
  2. Danda B. Rawat, Howard University, USA
  3. Sammy Chan, City University of Hong Kong, , China
  4. Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Advanced Sensor Technologies on Water Monitoring and Modeling
  2. Ambient Intelligence Environments with Wireless Sensor Networks from the Point of View of Big Data and Smart & Sustainable Cities
  3. Microwave (X- and S-band) Marine Radars for Ocean Sensing


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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Proximity Service (ProSe) Challenges and Applications

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Proximity Service (ProSe) Challenges and Applications.

The mobile revolution is changing the way we interact with people and things around us. Proximity awareness, the ability to actively/passively and continuously search for relevant value in one’s physical proximity, is at the core of this phenomenon.

Generally, Proximity Service (ProSe) can be composed of two main groups of use cases: public safety communications and discovery mode (commercial applications). On one hand, the ability to support direct communication is a core requirement for public safety use cases, when the devices are in proximity, and the network is down or when the device is out of coverage (e.g., in the situations of disaster rescue), as it may take too much time to install new communication equipment and restore damaged infrastructure. On the other hand, much more than just a “friend finder”, commercial discovery mode could establish a paradigm shift from the Personal Computer (PC) “search-to-discover” mindset, to “always-on” discovery services that are fundamental to defining the next generation of mobile service.

Existing technologies used to serve the proximity awareness can be broadly divided into over-the-top (OTT), and Device-to-Device (D2D) (peer-to-peer (P2P)) solutions. In the OTT model, a server located in the cloud receives periodic location updates from user mobile devices. Besides the underlying enabling novel technologies, the latest application and research results of ProSe in academic, industrial fields and standardization should be analyzed and designed. In this Special Section in IEEE Access, we solicit articles from researchers in the field to comprehensively present architecture, fundamental issues and applications in ProSe networking environment from interdisciplinary viewpoints.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • D2D Communications technologies
  • Peer and Service Discovery in ProSe
  • Forwarding mechanism in ProSe
  • Profile matching in ProSe
  • ProSe development framework
  • Energy-efficient technologies in ProSe
  • Security, trust, privacy in ProSe
  • Smart sensors and sensor systems for ProSe
  • Wireless networks with improved responsiveness for ProSe
  • Human-computer Interface (HCI) for ProSe
  • Human robot interaction for ProSe
  • Activity recognition
  • Indoor localization and tracking systems
  • Incentive mechanism (mobile participatory sensing)
  • Business models of proximity service
  • Mobile Social Networks in proximity (MSNP)
  • Vehicular social Networks (VSN)
  • Mobile crowdsourcing applications
  • People-centric computing

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Associate Editor: Yufeng Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Guest Editors:

  1. Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan
  2. Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
  3. Klimis Ntalianis, Athens University of Applied Sciences, Greece
  4. Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA
  5. Michele Luvisotto, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Human-Centered Smart Systems and Technologies
  2. Advanced Big Data Analysis for Vehicular Social Networks
  3. Smart Caching, Communications, Computing and Cybersecurity for Information-Centric Internet of Things


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact:  wfwang@njupt.edu.cn

Network Resource Management in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Challenges, Potentials, Future Applications, and Wayforward

Submission Deadline: 01 July 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Network Resource Management in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Challenges, Potentials, Future Applications, and Wayforward.

With the rapid development in the fields of wireless ad hoc networks that do not rely on any pre-existing infrastructure, Flying Ad hoc networks (FANETs) have recently captured the attention of vendors and investors due to the flying nature of entities in the network. FANET is composed of unmanned nodes that fly at high altitude platforms such as balloons, unmanned aerial vehicles or drones. The network of nodes that fly at high altitude has gained commercial and industrial popularity because of its applications in surveillance, agriculture, photography, etc.  New applications that are being developed for FANET bring up new challenges such as multipath propagations, severe shadowing, traffic load balancing, mobility, congestion, high error rates, etc., that usually result in performance degradation of the network. However, the applications developed and used in FANET may also result in collision with other air traffic due to the above challenges.

The Federal Aviation Administration has  reported about the tremendous increase of more than 50% in  air traffic in unmanned vehicles in 2017. However, such an increase in the UAVs results in an increase in the network traffic of FANET that may lead to an unbalanced traffic distribution, resulting in an increase in packet loss. Furthermore, the high data traffic generated by the number of nodes in FANET is one of the leading causes of accidents with the commercial flights. In order to cope with such challenges, the network traffic of FANET must be distributed in such a way that it does not disturb commercial flights or the communication among the nodes that fly at high altitudes in a network.

This Special Section in IEEE Access therefore solicits original research work, novel protocols, methodologies and survey papers addressing the future challenges and solutions that embark on network resource management in FANETs.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Efficient deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at high altitude platforms (HAPs) for congestion avoidance and control
  • Dynamic traffic load balancing for congestion avoidance through routing in Flying Ad hoc Networks
  • Performance investigation of 5G systems with flying ad hoc networks (FANETs)
  • An optimal data collection and dissemination technique for balanced traffic utilization in FANETs
  • Distributed congestion-aware position oriented MAC/Routing protocols for FANETs
  • Performance evaluation of layered protocols of TCP/IP for multimedia traffic in flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) at different altitude platforms
  • Analysis of Reactive, proactive, and hybrid routing protocols for flying Ad Hoc networks
  • Opportunistic routing for distributed video traffic dissemination over flying ad hoc networks
  • A cross layer design for distributed information dissemination over flying ad hoc networks
  • Agricultural environment monitoring system based on UAV in FANETs
  • Congestion avoidance, detection, and mitigation in Flying Ad-Hoc Network for efficient utilization of network resources
  • Distributed clustering approach for FANETs
  • Enhanced connectivity for robust multimedia transmission in UAV networks
  • Active Queue Management for resource sharing in Flying Ad hoc Networks
  • Bio-inspired routing protocols for FANET routing
  • Multi-hop and relay-based communications for distributed traffic load balancing
  • Smart solutions to reduce congestion in FANETs
  • Interaction of FANET with IoT
  • Distributed Emergency Message Dissemination in FANET

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Associate Editor: Omer Chughtai, COMSATS University Islamabad, Wah Campus, Pakistan

Guest Editors:

  1. Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
  2. Leila Musavian, University of Essex, UK
  3. Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne, France
  4. Soumaya Cherkaoui, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
  5. Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA
  6. Onur Alparslan, Osaka University, Japan

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Fairness in Futuristic Wireless Networks: Applications, Implementation, Issues, and Opportunities
  2. Networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Wireless Communications, Applications, Control and Modelling
  3. Convergence of Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, and Big Data in Industrial Internet of Things


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact:  umar.chughtai@gmail.com

D2D Communications: Security Issues and Resource Allocation

Submission Deadline: 28 February 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of D2D Communications: Security Issues and Resource Allocation.

Device-to-device (D2D) communications will enable direct communications between devices in cellular networks, thus potentially improving the spectrum utilization, enhancing the overall throughput, and increasing energy efficiency. D2D communication has the potential to enable new peer-to-peer and location-based applications and services, as well as to help offload traffic from the congested traditional cellular networks.

The primary issue with respect to D2D communications, is its sharing of spectrum resources with traditional cellular and other communication networks. D2D systems should be able to use the same spectral resources occupied by traditional communication devices in an opportunistic manner, in order to facilitate the needed point-to-point connectivity. To solve the spectrum scarcity issues involving D2D and traditional communication systems, the research community has resorted to the Cognitive Radio (CR) and Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) paradigms that devise new approaches for enabling spectrally efficient D2D communication networks. These new approaches have resulted in innovative network architectures and applications that have the potential to redefine the current state-of-the-art of wireless connectivity and to shape the next generation cellular communications (e.g., 5G and Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) / Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications). The proliferation of D2D communications implies also special security measures, as the involved devices are susceptible to eavesdropping, interference, jamming, and other types of attacks.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • D2D communications for 5G networks
  • Cognitive Radio and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing for D2D deployment in TVWS
  • Spectrum regulation and management aspects for D2D networks
  • Energy and spectral efficiency
  • Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Software Defined Radio (SDR) for D2D communications
  • D2D standardization
  • Interference and power control
  • Radio resource allocation and scheduling
  • Biologically-inspired techniques for D2D spectrum management
  • Deep and reinforcement learning for D2D
  • D2D non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) frameworks
  • D2D for vehicular communications
  • Vehicle-to-anything (V2X) communications
  • IoT architectures for D2D
  • Social networking for D2D
  • D2D test-beds, prototypes, and implementations
  • Security and privacy for D2D communications

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Associate Editor: Li Wang, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications (BUPT), China

Guest Editors:

  1. Antonino Orsino, Ericsson Research, Finland
  2. Adrian Kliks, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
  3. Alexander M. Wyglinski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
  4. Vlad Popescu, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
  5. Mauro Fadda, University of Cagliari, Italy

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Emerging Technologies for Device to Device Communications
  2. Emerging Technologies for Vehicle to Everything (V2X)
  3. Radio Frequency Identification and Security Techniques


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: liwang@bupt.edu.cn

Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing for Communications and Networks

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing for Communications and Networks.

With the rapid development of communication and network technologies, novel information services and applications are rapidly growing worldwide. Advanced communications and networks greatly enhance the user experience and have a major impact on all aspects of people’s lifestyles in terms of work, society, and the economy. Although advanced techniques have extensively improved user’s quality of experience (QoE), they are not adequate to meet the various requirements of seamless wide-area coverage, high-capacity hot-spots, low-power massive-connections, low-latency and high-reliability, as well as other scenarios. Therefore, it is a great challenge to develop smart communications and networks that support optimized management, dynamic configuration and feasible services.

Under the new service paradigm, artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive computing break the boundary between two separate fields, neuroscience and computer science, and pave the way for machines to have reasoning abilities which is analogous to human. The research field of AI and cognitive computing are interdisciplinary and uses knowledge and methods from many areas such as psychology, biology, signal processing, physics, information theory, mathematics, and statistics, which are very promising approaches to deal with dynamic and large-scale topology; thus, we should explore AI-based techniques such as statistical learning, feedforward neural networks, deep recurrent neural networks, etc., for complicated decision making, network management, resource optimization and in-depth knowledge discovery in complex environments. Furthermore, communications and network ecosystems must be upgraded with new capabilities such as machine learning, data analytics, and cognitive power to provide advanced intelligence.

This Special Section in IEEE Access will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to smart communication and networks. To meet the extreme requirements of the user experience, energy efficiency and performance in a complex network environment, and novel design, configuration and optimization of network communication are needed. This Special Section will discuss how to improve the QoS of communications and networks using AI and cognitive computing.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Smart communication\network architectures and infrastructure
  • Data analytics and behavior prediction for communications\networks
  • Cognitive computing, affective computing, machine learning and other innovative approaches for smart communications\networks
  • Context-aware, emotion-aware, and other novel communication\network services based on AI and cognitive computing
  • Recommender system and personalized services based on AI and cognitive computing
  • Multi-modal information fusion, contextual data management and in-depth knowledge discovery for communications\networks
  • Intelligent and interactive communication\network services and applications
  • AI-based testbed, performance evaluation for communications\networks
  • AI-based security and privacy protection for communications\networks

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Associate Editor: Yin Zhang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China


Guest Editors:

  1. Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
  2. Limei Peng, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
  3. Iztok Humar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  4. Jianshan Sun, Hefei University of Technology, China

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Social Computing Applications for Smart Cities
  2. Human-Centered Smart Systems and Technologies
  3. Big Data Analytics in Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical System


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: yin.zhang.cn@ieee.org.

 

Fog Radio Access Networks (F-RANs) for 5G: Recent Advances and Future Trends

Submission Deadline: 15 February 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Fog Radio Access Networks (F-RANs) for 5G: Recent Advances and Future Trends.

To satisfy the explosively increasing demands of high-speed data applications and massive access requirements of various Internet-of-thing (IoT) devices, a whole package of performance requirements has been proposed for the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication system. In particular, 5G should be able to connect one million connections per square kilometer, and the system capacity will grow by a factor of 1000 compared to the fourth-generation (4G) system to deliver a consistent experience across a variety of scenarios.

Motivated by the necessity of network architecture enhancement, a paradigm of fog radio access networks (F-RANs) has emerged as a promising evolution path for 5G network architecture. In F-RANs, a fog-computing layer is formed at the edge of networks, and a part of the service requirements can be responded to locally without interacting with the cloud computing center via the fronthaul links. Therefore, by taking full advantage of distributed caching and centralized processing, F-RANs provide great flexibility to satisfy quality-of-service requirements of various 5G scenarios. F-RAN has become a research hotspot, and draws a lot of attention from both academia and industry. As it integrates with artificial intelligence and other new emerging technologies, 5G faces new challenges, and the study of F-RANs is entering a new era as well.

This Special Section in IEEE Access will focus on the state-of-art protocols, techniques and applications of F-RANs in the typical scenarios of 5G. The aim of this Special Section is to share and discuss recent advances and future trends of F-RANs, and to bring academic researchers and industry developers together.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Information-theoretic analysis for F-RANs
  • Network architecture and protocol design for 5G F-RANs
  • Computing, communication, caching, and control (4C) for F-RANs
  • Advanced PHY and MAC technologies for F-RANs
  • Resource management and cross-layer design for F-RANs
  • Fronthaul/backhaul design for F-RANs
  • Software defined F-RANs and network slicing for 5G
  • Network security for F-RANs
  • Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled F-RANs
  • Prototype and test-bed for F-RANs

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Associate Editor: Mugen Peng, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China


Guest Editors:

  1. Zhongyuan Zhao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
  2. Q. S. Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
  3. Guoqiang Mao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  4. Zhiguo Ding, The University of Manchester, UK
  5. Chonggang Wang, InterDigital Communications, USA

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Future Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications
  2. Mobile Edge Computing
  3. Social Computing Applications for Smart Cities


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: pmg@bupt.edu.cn.

 

Software Defined Networks for Energy Internet and Smart Grid Communications

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Software Defined Networks for Energy Internet and Smart Grid Communications.

A new network paradigm of Software Defined Networks (SDN) is being widely adapted to efficiently monitor and manage the communication networks with a global perspective. SDN has a key networking feature that separates control and data plane. Today, due to its inherent benefits, SDN has been widely applied to various networking domains including data centers, WAN, enterprise, Optical Networks, Under Water Sensor Networks (UWSN), Energy Internet (EI), and Smart Grid (SG).

Energy Internet (EI) and Smart Grid (SG) are two complementary terms. Energy Internet refers to the vision of integrating future electricity grid into the web. Smart Grid refers to the advancement of current electricity grid with the help of information and communication technologies. The key feature that distinguishes EI from the SG is its tight coupling of EI with the Internet. One might argue that EI is the advanced form of Smart Grid. Nevertheless, as both EI and SG technologies differ in various ways, especially in terms of implementation and applications, there are fundamental research questions that are yet to be addressed. In a traditional Internet scenario, organizations have local area networks (LANs). These small LANs are from the small geographical areas such as cites and are connected together to form  Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), which are then inter-connected together to form  Wide Area Networks (WANs). Likewise, in an EI scenario, a world-wide energy-Wide Area Network (e-WAN) is composed of networked regional small-scale energy-Local Area Networks (e-LANs). Similar to a network router in the traditional Internet, we have an e-router in the EI, which is responsible for  power delivery and information forwarding.

In order to realize full functionality of EI and SG, an efficient communication system would be essential, i.e., a networked system and infrastructure with fast reliable information flow capability, and support for good system observability and controllability. Such communication systems would facilitate the EI and SG to achieve secure, reliable, and safe power and information exchange. Therefore, SDN has an immense potential in playing a significant role in managing the overall network and communication entities for the future EI and SG systems. By adapting the concepts of SDN in the current as well as to future EI and SG systems, the efficiency and resiliency of the entire system could be significantly improved by further fueling the growth of research and industry methods in EI and SG.

Overall, the goal of this proposed Special Section in IEEE Access is to publish and capture the most recent advances and trends in the promising technologies of Energy Internet and Smart Grid, particularly from the perspective of Software Defined Networks.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Software Defined Networks for Smart Grid (SG)
  • Software Defined Networks for Energy Internet (EI)
  • SDN-based Internet of Things (IoT) for Energy Internet
  • Architectures and Protocols for SDN-based SG and EI
  • Resource Allocation Techniques for SDN-based EI and SG
  • Routing and MAC Protocols for SDN-based EI and SG
  • Renewable Energy Resources and SDN-based EI and SG
  • Performance Analysis, Testbed and Simulation Tools for SDN-based EI and SG
  • Big Data Analytics for SDN-based EI and SG
  • SDN Monitoring and Management Applications in HANs, NANs, WANs, and AMI
  • SG and EI Communication Monitoring techniques through SDN

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Associate Editor:  Mubashir Husain Rehmani, TSSG, WIT, Ireland


Guest Editors:

  1. Alan Davy, TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
  2. Brendan Jennings, TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology , Ireland
  3. Zeeshan Kaleem, COMSATS, Pakistan
  4. Akhilesh Thyagaturu, Intel Mobile Communications, USA
  5. Hassnaa Moustafa, Intel Corporation, USA
  6. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. The Internet of Energy: Architectures, Cyber Security, and Applications
  2. Power Quality and Harmonics Issues of Future and Smart Grids
  3. Battery Energy Storage and Management Systems


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact:  mshrehmani@gmail.com

 

Wireless Body Area Networks

Submission Deadline: 31 March 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Wireless Body Area Networks.

This Special Section collects extended versions of the best-ranked papers presented in Bodynets 2018 Conference in Oulu, Finland. In addition, other researchers are encouraged to submit their recent research work for possible publication in the Special Section.

Wearable devices and wireless communications combined with a personalized health management are the future trends of healthcare practices and procedures. To make this progress happen, new technologies and methods are required to provide reliable measuring, end-to-end communications and data analysis mechanisms from the data source to medical health records. Wireless body area networks (WBAN) are one major element in this process. Not limited to only on-body WBAN devices but also benefiting technologies which can distribute vital information inside a human body, or allow control of implantable devices are also  the main focus of this Special Section. Dependable wireless communications combined with versatile application areas, such as accurate localization or behavior analysis techniques, remote monitoring, adoption of vital sensors and actuators, etc. can benefit the increased use of new WBAN technologies in various healthcare related studies. Eventually, this will make the healthcare processes more effective and user friendly, and simultaneously increase the safety of (out)patients.

This Special Section in IEEE Access focuses on various theoretical and experimental views on the WBAN applications, technologies, implementations and utilizations based on the extended versions of the best-evaluated papers from Bodynets 2018. Articles should be extended versions of the 2018 Bodynets Conference articles since only 35% overlap is allowed. Original and new research articles are also welcome.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • In-, on- and off-body communications and networking
  • Wearable computing
  • Embedded devices
  • Medical applications
  • WBAN radio channel modeling
  • WBAN antennas
  • Security aspects of WBAN or security for medical ICT
  • Experimentations of WBAN technologies and services
  • Utilization of WBAN in general

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Associate Editor: Matti Hämäläinen, University of Oulu, Finland.


Guest Editors:

  1. Daizuke Anzai, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
  2. Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
  3. Jari Iinatti, University of Oulu, Finland
  4. Lorenzo Mucchi, University of Florence, Italy
  5. Carlos Pomalaza-Raez, Purdue University, USA

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Wearable and Implantable Devices and Systems
  2. Advanced Information Sensing and Learning Technologies for Data-centric Smart Health Applications
  3. Trends, Perspectives and Prospects of Machine Learning Applied to Biomedical Systems in Internet of Medical Things


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact:  matti.hamalainen@oulu.fi

 

Emerging Technologies for Device to Device Communications

Submission Deadline: 30 September 2018

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Emerging Technologies for Device to Device Communications.

Mobile Internet, especially mobile multimedia service, has become very popular in recent years. To support mobile multimedia applications, however, network capacity has to be dramatically enhanced. As an emerging technology, Device to Device (D2D) communications, have been considered to improve the network capacity as well as reduce the traffic on base stations by offloading traffic to be delivered among mobile devices directly or in a multi-hop manner. As a result, many types of real-time services, such as mobile multimedia services, can be well supported by the new mobile network technology.

There are still many open research issues in building up a mobile network with D2D communications. For example, the mechanisms for radio resource allocation and interference management are still in their infancy. Many researchers are working on developing testbeds and/or standardizing D2D communications. Moreover, new applications are emerging, and these applications should be well supported by D2D communications. Furthermore, new technologies, such as social networks and software-defined networks, are expected to have great impacts on the design of the network architecture, supporting D2D communications. In addition, trust and privacy issues are very important concerns to users as they affect users’ willingness to use D2D communications. Researchers have been making great efforts to solve these problems and readers of IEEE Access have keen interest in the research progress in this area.

The goal of this Special Section In IEEE Access is to report up-to-date contributions in the area of the Emerging Technologies for D2D communications.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Social-aware D2D communications
  • Software-defined D2D communications
  • Outband D2D Communications
  • Neighbor discovery for D2D communications
  • Mode selection for D2D communications
  • Resources scheduling for D2D communications
  • Interference management for D2D communications
  • Power control for D2D communications
  • Privacy preserving for D2D communications
  • Trust management for D2D communications
  • Multimedia transmission for D2D communications
  • New applications for D2D communications
  • Testbed and standardization activities for D2D communications

 

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Associate Editor: Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA


Guest Editors:

  1. Qing Yang, University of North Texas, USA
  2. Dapeng Wu, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
  3. Joel Rodrigues, National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil; Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
  4. Shaoen Wu, Ball State University, USA


Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

 

  1. Recent Advances on Radio Access and Security Methods in 5G Networks
  2. Advances in Interference Mitigation Techniques for Device-to-Device Communications
  3. Mobile Edge Computing


IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
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For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact:  hwang1@umassd.edu

 

Protocols for Nanocommunication Networks

Submission Deadline: 15 January 2019

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Protocols for Nanocommunication Networks.

Nanonetworking is one of the newest research trends in communication networks. Paved by the visionary “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” talk of future Nobel laureate Richard Feynman in 1959, the field has been made possible by recent advances in nanostructures and nanotechnology, as well as the deeper understanding and the ability to exploit the inherent biological processes of living organisms.

The above scientific advances have paved the way for the two areas of nanonetworking research i.e., a) biological/molecular nanonetworks and b) electromagnetically-based nanonetworks. In the former, communication is achieved through biological/molecular mechanisms, mostly via use of genetically modified bacteria or other microorganisms. In electromagnetic (EM) nanonetworks, artificial nanomachines communicate using electromagnetic radiation emitted by nanoantennas. In both areas, the nanonetwork is comprised of interconnected nanomachines having a size of a few hundred nanometers or a few micrometers at most, which are able to perform simple tasks such as sensing, computing, data storing and communication.

Nanonetworks can have a very significant impact in many areas, such as environmental research, surveillance, goods monitoring, Internet of Nano(bio)things, etc.  but are especially envisioned for medical practice. Potential applications in this area include personalized diagnosis, targeted and localized drug delivery, tumor cell detection and atherosclerosis (disease) detection.

Molecular and EM-based nanonetworks constitute the relay between two different environments for the physical layer of such networks. Differences are also sure to appear in the other layers of the network stack as well, mainly on those of layers 2 and 3, dealing with networking individual nano-nodes, either artificial ones communicating via electromagnetic waves, or biological ones. However, what is surely common in both categories is the demand for simple, lightweight protocols, that are resistant to node failures and random events. This is due to the size of the network nodes, which is in the order of microns, thus the functionalities that can be implemented in them are very limited.

The aim of this Special Section in IEEE Access is to report recent results in designing and evaluating protocols for the nanonetworking environment.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Physical layer models for molecular and EM-based nanonetworks;
  • Design of artificial nanomachines, EM nanoparticles, and nanosensors for EM-based nanonetworks;
  • Design of engineered bacteria and molecules for molecular communications;
  • Medium Access Control protocols for molecular and EM-based nanonetworks;
  • Routing protocols for molecular and EM-based nanonetworks;
  • Transport-Layer approaches for molecular and EM-based nanonetworks;
  • Energy-efficient protocols for molecular and EM-based nanonetworks;
  • QoS provisioning in molecular and EM-based nanonetworks;
  • Performance evaluation approaches
  • Application-specific protocols for molecular and EM-based nanonetworks;
  • Security & reliability issues in molecular and EM-based nanonetworks

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Associate Editor:  Petros Nicopolitidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Guest Editors:

  1. Anna Maria Vegni, RomaTre University, Italy
  2. Valeria Loscri, Inria Lille–Nord Europe, France
  3. Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
  4. Tadashi Nakano, Osaka University, Japan
  5. Cindy Yang Yi, Virginia Tech, USA

 

Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections:

  1. Nano-antennas, Nano-transceivers, and Nano-networks / Communications
  2. Body Area Networks
  3. Emergent Topics for Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems in Smartphone, IoT, and Cloud Computing Era

 

IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland

Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://ieee.atyponrex.com/journal/ieee-access

For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: petros@csd.auth.gr