Special Issue on

Cognitive Radio Networks: Survey, Tutorial, and New Introduction

KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (indexed in SCI/JCR)

Description

Over the last decades, wireless communications have undoubtedly undergone an explosive growth with myriad applications, which have become an inevitable part of human life. In this view, broadband wireless technologies have enabled efficient voice and data communications and more lately a rather satisfactory mobile internet access. A plenty of mobile devices have come out lately. Additionally, the users' demand has dramatically increased in a short time and results in pushing the systems performance to their limit. However we have a limited resource such as spectrum bands. According to communication theory, the data rate in wireless communications is directly related to the signal-to-noise-ratio of the corresponding information signal and the channel bandwidth. The dramatic users’ service demand has led to the development of numerous sophisticated technologies to meet the corresponding data rate requirements. Nevertheless, these achievements were mainly accomplished at the expense of substantially increased bandwidth (Hz) and energy (joules) resources. The increased resource requirements have given us engineering complexity and very high financial cost while a significant scarcity of the available spectrum resources has become a notable burden. This urgent situation has motivated both industrial and academic sectors to focus their efforts on meaningful solutions to the problems. To this end, Cognitive radio (CR) is expected to play an important role in the next generation of wireless communication systems. CR techniques enable us to utilize limited spectrum resources and thus to relieve the current spectrum scarcity. The goal of this special issue is to gather recent research contributions and advances in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). More specifically, this special issue aims at fostering innovative and significant research on the design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of CRNs. This special issue will also bring together leading researchers and developers in fields of CRNs in the world. In particular, this special issue calls for only tutorial, survey, and new introduction to state-of-the-art papers. We limit mathematical formulas within a maximum of 3. If the authors need more mathematical formulas, you should put them in Appendix of your article. Articles SHOULD be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Thus, articles are suggested to be written by easy and short sentences.

Scope

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

•   - Coexistence and interferences issues
•   - Spectrum sensing
•   - Spectrum sharing
•   - Spectrum management
•   - Spectrum mobility
•   - Cognitive radio in 5G
•   - Cognitive radio for co-existence of M2M and LTE-A in 5G
•   - Cognitive radio in cloud computing
•   - Network and physical layer security in cognitive radio networks
•   - Aggregate interference and coexistence issues
•   - MIMO techniques in cognitive radio networks
•   - Cognitive medium access control, handoff, and routing protocols
•   - Resource allocation for cognitive radio networks
•   - Green cognitive radio networks
•   - Cross-layer design and optimization of cognitive radio systems
•   - Self-configuration and interoperability issues
•   - Practical testbeds in cognitive radio networks
•   - Industrial report on practical cases

Submission Guideline

Authors are invited to submit tutorial, survey, and introductory papers. Papers SHOULD be new and insightful for readers. Submissions should follow the author guidelines of KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems and the complete instructions for prospective authors can be found at http://www.itiis.org. Papers should be submitted to the ScholarOne manuscript submission system, http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tiisjournal. You should select "Special Issue-Cognitive Radio Networks: Survey, Tutorial, and New Introduction" as manuscript type. All submissions will undergo initial screening by the Guest Editors for fit to the theme of the special issue and prospects for successfully negotiating the review process.

Important Schedule

  - Submission Due Date: Fri May 30 15:00:00 UTC 2014

  - First Notification of Acceptance: Wed Aug 13 15:00:00 UTC 2014

  - Expected Publication Date: 2014-10

Guest Editor(s)

Special Issue on

WBANs for Pervasive Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, and Entertainment Applications: Issues & Challenges

KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (indexed in SCI/JCR)

Description

A WBAN (Wireless Body Area Network) interconnects low-power, miniaturized, and intelligent sensor nodes in, on, or around a human body to serve a variety of healthcare, Consumer Electronics (CE), and entertainment applications. It provides unprecedented opportunities for long-term health monitoring of patients without additional interference with their normal activities. When integrated in hospitals and clinics, WBAN can support people with disabilities and chronic diseases and can treat or even predict life threatening diseases. Medical applications include supervised rehabilitation, early detection of abnormal condition, and treatment of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension. Non-medical applications include monitoring forgotten things, establishing social networks, monitoring of athletes, or assessing soldier fatigue and battle readiness. Numerous publications have focused on the design and development of novel technologies for WBAN (mostly for healthcare applications). However, many issues and challenges should be resolved to make this technology adaptable and ubiquitous for non-medical applications, such as CE and entertainment applications. This includes solutions to many technical issues and challenges such as interference, energy efficiency, reliability, network management, scalability and interoperability, and security issues. The interference and coexistence are among the most important topics to be addressed because they may degrade the performance of WBANs and can lead to loss of crucial health information. Other important topics are the interoperability, which may allow WBANs to work in heterogeneous wireless networks, and the integration of WBANs with cloud computing, which may allow to store and process huge amount of data collected by WBANs.

Scope

This special issue is dedicated to recent advances in WBAN for medical and non-medical applications. It invites high quality unpublished research & review articles that disseminate the state-of-the-art research and development on fundamental WBAN technologies, articulate new perspectives, and highlight open issues and challenges. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

•   - Coexistence and interferences issues
•   - System Scalability and interoperability
•   - End-to-End QoS management
•   - Energy-efficient protocols and algorithms
•   - Cross layer optimization
•   - Multi-hop WBANs
•   - Novel technologies for multimedia communication in WBANs
•   - Integration of WBANs with cloud computing/other networks
•   - Mobility management
•   - RFID-based WBANs
•   - Security and fault tolerance issues
•   - RF propagation
•   - WBAN security
•   - Wireless prototype, tested, and software with hospital trials
•   - Wireless Body Area Nano-network
•   - Survey and tutorial articles in the above areas are highly encouraged

Submission Guideline

All of submissions should follow the TIIS journal's author guidelines on the web page (http://www.itiis.org). SELECT the "Special Issue Paper-WBANs for Pervasive Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, and Entertainment Applications: Issues & Challenges" in the manuscript type menu of the manuscript submission system. If you select other manuscript type, your submitted paper will NOT be considered for this special issue.

Important Schedule

  - Submission Due Date: Mon Oct 15 00:00:00 UTC 2012 Fri Nov 30 00:00:00 UTC 2012

  - First Notification of Acceptance: Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 UTC 2013 Wed Jan 30 00:00:00 UTC 2013

  - Second Notification of Acceptance: Mon Feb 25 00:00:00 UTC 2013

  - Camera Ready Manuscript Submission: Mon Mar 25 00:00:00 UTC 2013

  - Expected Publication Date: 2014-06

Guest Editor(s)

Special Issue on

Machine 2 Machine Communications: Applications, Architectures and Protocols

KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (indexed in SCI/JCR)

Description

The next generation networks will have to support various communication technologies and integrate different devices. M2M (Machine to Machine) which covers various technologies, including sensing, communications, computing, data processing and control technologies support diverse devices to commutate with each other becomes an indispensablecomponent for next generation network, e.g. IoT (Internet of Thing) and cyber-hysical systems. Nowadays, M2M is widely applied to lots of applications and serves, even led to M2H (Machine to Human) and M2S (Machine to System) in the future. On the other hand, it illustrates the automatic end-to-end systems that provide smart and convenient services to users. Therefore, this special issue aims to address a variety of technical challenges and advanced solutions in the applications, architectures and protocols of Machine 2 Machine communications.

Scope

This special issue will provide a widespread overview of the design and development in applications, architectures and protocols in the field of the Machine 2 Machine communications. This issue seeks original research papersto provide timely information on this area. We accept only overview papers and tutorial and survey-style papers describing novel ideas and technologies. Specific topics include, but not limited to, the following:

•   - Network Architectures for M2M, M2M Applications and System Development
•   - Sensing, Computing, and Controlling Technologies for M2M
•   - M2M Communication Managements and Operations
•   - Reliability, Security and Privacy for M2M
•   - M2M Spectrum Management
•   - M2M Resource Management
•   - M2M Communication Protocols
•   - M2M in Vehicular Communications
•   - M2M in Smart Robots
•   - M2M in Cyber-physical Systems
•   - M2M in Healthcare
•   - M2M in Home Networks

Submission Guideline

All papers should be submitted through the KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems journal’s manuscript submission menu in http://www.itiis.org. A copy of the manuscript should also be emailed to the Guest Editor, Prof. Han-Chieh Chao as PDF file.
- Papers should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a way for readersoutside the specialty of the paper to understand very easily.
- Mathematical equations should not be used. For the necessary case only, 3~4 simple equations could be allowed.
- NO more than 5000 words are allowed but exceptionally page limitation is NOT applied to survey papers.
- Figures and tables should be very clear and high resolution.
- Select the "Special Issue Paper-Machine 2 Machine Communications" in the manuscript type menu of the ScholarOne manuscript submission system.

Important Schedule

  - Submission Due Date: Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 UTC 2011 Sun Sep 18 00:00:00 UTC 2011

  - First Notification of Acceptance: Mon Oct 31 00:00:00 UTC 2011

  - Expected Publication Date: 2012-01