[Ns-developers] EURASIP Journal: Special Issue on Simulators and Experimental Test-beds Design and Development for Wireless Networks

[Nicola Baldo]

Given all the discussions we had at WNS3, I think that some of you might 
be interested in the following CFP...

Regards,

Nicola



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EURASIP JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING (WCN)

SIMULATORS AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTBEDS DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT FOR WIRELESS
NETWORKS

The manuscripts are due June 1st, 2009

The CFP can be found directly at:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/si/setb.html
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Call for Papers

In the context of wireless networking, performance evaluation of
protocols and distributed applications is generally conducted through
simulation or experimentation campaigns. An efficient and accurate
simulation of wireless networks raises various issues which generally
need to be addressed from several research domains simultaneously. As
examples, we can consider the wireless physical layer modeling and
simulation, the support of large-scale networks, the simulation of
complex RF systems such as MIMO ones, the emulation of wireless nodes or
the interconnection of simulators, experimental testbeds, and so forth.

The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together academic and industry
researchers and practitioners from both the wireless networking and the
simulation communities to discuss current and future trends in
simulation or experimentation techniques, models, and practices for the
future communication system and to foster interdisciplinary
collaborative research in this area. The guest editors seek high-quality
papers on aspects of wireless network simulation, and value both
theoretical and practical research contributions. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

  * Radio medium modeling and cross-layer simulation
  * Scalability, large-scale networks support
  * Validation of simulators and simulation results
  * Simulators benchmarking and comparisons
  * Fluid-flow simulation for assessing QoS in large-scale networks
  * Support of new emerging technologies (WiMax, 3.5G, Wireless Mesh
    Networks, 802.11x, etc.) in simulators
  * Support of advanced RF systems (Multi-carrier schemes, MIMO,
    smart-antenna) in simulators
  * Wireless node simulation or emulation
  * Interoperability of simulators, emulators, and experiments
  * Support of distributed physical layer schemes (distributed signal
    processing; cooperative schemes)
  * Distributed simulation, and scalability of simulators
  * Implementation of simulators
  * Experimental testbeds for wireless networks
  * Methodology for protocol and distributed application performance
    evaluation
  * SDR techniques, cognitive radio approaches, dynamic spectrum
    access testbeds, and simulators as well as modeling
  * Simulation and testbeds for cooperative communication protocols

Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's
Author Guidelines, which are located at
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through
the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/,
according to the following timetable:

  Manuscript Due:                June 1, 2009
  First Round of Reviews:     September 1, 2009
  Publication Date:                December 1, 2009


      Lead Guest Editor

  * Faouzi Bader <mailto:faouzi.bader at cttc.es>, Centre Tecnológico de
    Telecomunicaciones de Cataluya (CTTC), PMT, Spain

      Guest Editors

  * Guillame Chelius <mailto:guillaume.chelius at inria.fr>, Institut
    National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRA), France
  * Christian Ibars <mailto:cibars at cttc.cat>, Centre Tecnológico de
    Telecomunicaciones de Cataluya (CTTC), PMT, Spain
  * Mohamed Ibnkahla <mailto:ibnkahla at post.queensu.ca>, Department of
    Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Canada
  * Nikos Passas <mailto:passas at di.uoa.gr>, Department of Informatics
    and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece
  * Arnd-Ragnar Rhiemeier <mailto:arnd-ragnar.rhiemeier at eads.com>,
    Defence Electronics, EADS Deutschland GmbH, Germany