Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (SCIE indexed) Special Issue Call for Papers The Green, Reliability and Security of Machine-to-Machine Communications
Machine-to-machine communications is an emerging technology that realizes a system of networks, wireless or wired, possibly distributed across the world, for transmitting events captured by low-end machines such as sensors and smart meters to high-end applications and/or personal appliances, where the events are translated into meaningful information. It embraces several major research fields including wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, smart grid and RFID, and enables future ubiquitous computing environment. Unlike current world-scale human-centric 3G wireless networks, M2M communication network is characterized by the absence of direct human intervention and the rapid increase in size and is therefore imposed with unique requirements. With ever-decreasing cost of deployment of M2M communication devices and access to public wireless data networks, and thanks to its potential to support a large number of ubiquitous characteristics and achieving better cost efficiency, M2M communications has quickly become a market- changing force for a wide variety of real-time monitoring applications, such as remote e-healthcare, smart homes, utility management, environmental monitoring and industrial automation. However, the flourishing of M2M communications still hinges on fully understanding and managing the existing GRS challenges: Green (i.e., energy efficiency), Reliability and Security. The objective of this special issue is to bring together state- of-the-art contributions on the GRS aspects of M2M communications. It aims to provide an environment conducive of cross-fertilization between researchers from different areas spanning wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, smart grid and RFID, all relevant, in one way or another to the advance and realization of M2M communication paradigm. Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of M2M communications. Possible topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to the following: * GRS in wireless sensor, actuator and robot networks * GRS in vehicular networks and intelligent transportation systems * GRS in smart grid * GRS in RFID technologies * GRS in interworking for M2M communication * GRS modeling for M2M communication * GRS in emerging M2M applications IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission deadline: November 15, 2011 * Notification to authors: March 1, 2012 * Revisions: April 15, 2012 * Data of Publication: 2012 PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor under consideration by, other journals. Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the review process of their manuscript. This online system offers easy and straightforward long-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide range of submission file formats. Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://PPNA.edmgr.com. Choose “The GRS of M2M Communications” as the article type. To avoid delays, authors of submissions that, in the opinion of the editors, fall out of scope of this issue will be notified promptly. GUEST EDITORS Dr. Xu Li, INRIA Lille – Nord Europe, France Dr. Xiaodong Lin, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Dr. Nathalie Mitton, INRIA Lille – Nord Europe, France Dr. Wenye Wang, North Carolina State University, USA _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
