Socially Enabled Networking and Computing

Submission Deadline: 31 December 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Socially Enabled Networking and Computing.

In recent years, mobile social networks, i.e. the networks of individuals with similar interests connected to each other through their mobile devices, is emerging as a source of information to achieve high efficiency communication and networking with better performance on key metrics such as lower delay, better coverage and higher data rate. The reason is that mobile devices are now powerful enough to form cooperative groups, assisting each other by sharing communication and computation resources. In such a scenario, critical technical problems should be solved to realize the potential benefits, i.e., how to efficiently utilize the computing and communication capabilities among these smart devices and how to facilitate mobile computing for human-computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be mobile in the network during normal usage? In addition to these technical challenges, another major problem is how to understand human behaviors and further utilize them in the mobile social networks to facilitate the benefits of considering human’s social relations and behaviors in mobile computing, communication and networking.

The focus of this Special Section in IEEE Access is the emerging topics of mobile social networks and corresponding applications with emphasis on networking and computing. We solicit and publish original research papers on the models, algorithms, technologies, and methodologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Modelling of social behaviors and interactions toward efficient networking and/or computing
  • Economy for social-aware networking and computing
  • Socially enabled resource allocation in wireless networks
  • Game theoretic formulation for networking and/or computing of interacting entities
  • Socially-enhanced wireless networking technologies such as device-to-device (D2D) communications, Internet of Things (IoT), vehicular networks, LTE-U, and network virtualization
  • Socially enabled mobile computing frameworks, algorithms and experiments
  • Mobile cloud computing assisted by socially enabled techniques, such as offloading and caching
  • Social-aware content sharing and distributed storage in mobile communications
  • Privacy, trust and security for socially enabled networking and computing
  • Mobile social networking systems and prototypes

 

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

Associate Editor: Li Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Guest Editors:
1. Giuseppe Araniti, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy
2. Yong Li, Tsinghua University, China
3. Tommy Svensson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
4. Zhu Han, University of Houston, USA

 

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: Bora M. Onat, Managing Editor, IEEE Access (Phone: (732) 562-6036, specialsections@ieee.org)

Emotion-aware Mobile Computing

Submission Deadline: 30 November 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Emotion-aware Mobile Computing.

With the rapid development of smart phones and wireless technology, mobile services and applications in the world are growing rapidly. The advanced mobile computing and communications greatly enhance the user’s experience by the notion of “carrying small while enjoying large”, which have brought a huge impact to all aspects of people’s lifestyles in terms of work, social, and economy. Despite the advanced techniques that have extensively improved user’s quality of experience (QoE), it is not adequate to provide affective services without efficient mechanisms of emotion-aware mobile computing, which includes various unique aspects, e.g., mobile data sensing and transmissions; sentiment analysis and emotion recognition; affective interaction. Under the new service paradigm, novel mobile services and innovative applications need to be extensively investigated to gain the great potentials brought by emotion-aware mobile computing.

The progress in this area will be made by applying and extending well-founded formal models and techniques from multiple domains of computer science, such as affective computing, mobile computing, human-computer interactions, etc. Therefore, this special issue aims to theme innovative research achievements in the field of related techniques, applications, services, architectures and systems for emotion-aware mobile computing.

This Special Section in IEEE Access will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to emotion-aware mobile computing. To meet the requirements of emotion-aware mobile computing, more comprehensive data sensing, more efficient data transmission, more effective data mining, affective computing and machine learning, more humanized interaction, new concepts and design approaches are in great need. This Special Section will discuss how to improve mobile user’s QoE through emotion-aware mobile computing.

In this Special Section, we are particularly interested in high quality contributions and innovations in the interdisciplinary area of mobile computing technologies, systems, and services. We are especially interested in emotion-aware mobile computing and innovative applications but not limited to the topics of interest listed below:

  • Pervasive and Mobile Interactive Services
  • Wearable Computing, Mobile Cloud Computing for Emotion-aware Service
  • Human-centric Emotion Recognition based on Mobile Big Data
  • Multimodal Mobile Data Fusion for Emotion Recognition
  • Pervasive Emotion Recognition and Regulation Environments
  • Context-aware, Emotion-aware, Location-based and Other Novel Mobile Services
  • Innovative Applications of Emotion-aware Mobile Computing
  • Tools and System Design Issues for Developing Affective and Proactive Interfaces
  • Emotion in Robot and Virtual Agent Cognition and Action
  • Memory, Reasoning, and Learning in Affective Conversational Agents

 

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

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

Guest Editors:
1. Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
2. Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
3. Wei Wang, San Diego State University, USA

 

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: Bora M. Onat, Managing Editor, IEEE Access (Phone: (732) 562-6036, specialsections@ieee.org)

Recent Advances in Socially-aware Mobile Networking

Submission Deadline: 31 August 2016

IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Socially-aware Mobile Networking.

Mobile data traffic has been growing exponentially over the past few years. A report from Cisco shows that the mobile data traffic in 2014 grew 69 percent and was nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. One of the primary contributors to the explosive mobile traffic growth is the rapid proliferation of mobile social applications running on multimedia mobile devices (particularly smartphones), and these sharp increases in mobile traffic (particularly from mobile social applications) are projected to continue in the foreseeable future. To meet the rapidly growing demand, regulatory agencies around the world (e.g., FCC, Ofcom and ETSI) are actively working on policies and regulations for dynamic spectrum access that are mutually beneficial to the cognitive radio devices and the licensed spectrum users of the under-utilized spectrum. As mobile networks by and large are designed and deployed to meet people’s social needs, people’s behaviors and interactions in the social domain will shape their ways to access mobile services. Therefore, there is an urgent need to integrate social elements into the design of mobile networks.

Socially-aware mobile networks have emerged as a promising direction for future mobile networks. Socially-aware mobile network designs can improve shared spectrum access, cooperative spectrum sensing and device-to-device (D2D) communications, and have potential to achieve substantial gains in spectral efficiency and lead to significant increases in network capacity. In spite of the potential benefits of socially-aware mobile networking, many technical challenges still have to be addressed. For example, mobile users need to trust others to carry out effective cooperation, and a natural question to ask is that “how to leverage human social trust to enhance distributed spectrum access?” Moreover, since mobile users need to communicate potentially sensitive information (such as location) to neighbors and third party (like in D2D sharing), privacy and security protection are also important components in the design of socially-aware mobile networks.

Inspired by the aforementioned attractive features and potential advantages of socially-aware mobile networks, socially-aware mobile networking has recently garnered much attention, but is still not well understood, and therefore requires more research efforts from both the academia and industry. This Special Section in IEEE Access will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to socially-aware mobile networking, so as to enrich the evolution of future mobile networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Socially-aware dynamic spectrum access
  • Socially-aware cooperative spectrum sensing
  • Socially-aware D2D communications
  • Socially-aware information dissemination in mobile networks
  • Cooperative behavioral modeling in socially-aware mobile networks
  • Socially-aware protocols for mobile networks
  • Socially-aware power and interference management
  • Socially-aware resource allocation and optimization for mobile networks
  • Crowdsourcing in mobile networks
  • Trust and reputations in mobile networks
  • Cognitive and cooperative mobile networks
  • Privacy and security for socially-aware mobile networks
  • Mobile social sensing and learning
  • Prediction in mobile social networks

 

We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles.

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

Guest Editors:
1. Lei Yang, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
2. Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University, USA
3. Tao Chen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
4. Ulrico Celentano, University of Oulu, Finland
5. Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland
6. Natalia Ermolova, Aalto University, Finland
7. Olav Tirkkonen, Aalto University, Finland

 

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: Bora M. Onat, Managing Editor, IEEE Access (Phone: (732) 562-6036, specialsections@ieee.org)