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Call for Papers IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Special Issue on WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS at the NANOSCALE Submission deadline: February 1, 2012 _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ In the recent years, nanotechnologies advanced and rapidly developed due to their numerous potential applications, in particular in healthcare and medical scenarios. The potentialities in the use of nanoscale devices rely also on the interdisciplinary nature of the competences required going from material science, to micro-biology, bio-chemistry, just to name a few. While research led to improve capabilities of individual nanoscale devices, two aspects, which deserve attention and have been only slightly addressed, are wireless nanodevices communications and networking. Integrating advanced communication and networking capabilities to nanoscale devices, can dramatically improve the provided functionality and open new opportunities for nanotechnology applications. Example applications are not only limited to healthcare, but can also be extended to food and water quality control, air pollution monitoring, nuclear, biological and chemical defense. However, unlike conventional communication systems, communicating at the wireless nanoscale brings along new challenges. For example, new frequency bands have to be utilized – in the order of the Terahertz – due to the nanoscale size of nanomachines and, thus, their antennas; also nanonetworks require a large set of functions to be performed including addressing, information propagation, medium access control. However, traditional solutions may not be applied due to very strict constraints in terms of computing and communication capabilities characterizing nanomachines. These challenges can only be addressed through new communication paradigms. The aim of this special issue is to collect high quality research papers on both theoretical and practical aspects of Wireless Communications at the Nanoscale. The special issue will also collect comprehensive survey papers, where topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures, topologies, and algorithms for wireless nanoscale communications and nanonetworks * Modeling and analysis of wireless nanocommunications * Wireless nanoscale communications with nanoptics and nanophotonics * Information theoretical approaches to wireless nanoscale communications * Nanocomponents/structures for wireless communications (e.g., graphene, nanoribbons, carbon nanotubes (CNT)) * Wireless nanoscale ad hoc and sensor networks * Wireless quantum communication networks * Applications for wireless nanoscale communications * New wireless nanoscale communication paradigms * Energy models for wireless nanocommunications * Protocols for wireless electromagnetic/molecular communications Submission Instructions and Important Dates: ____________________________________________ Authors must follow the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the manuscript and submit it via Manuscript Central at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-wcm. Articles should have no more than 4500 words, no more than 6 tables/figures, and the abstract should have no more than 250 words. With regard to both content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications guidelines for authors that can be found at: http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/info/sub_guidelines.html. Submission Deadline: February 1, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: May 15, 2012 Final Manuscripts Due: July 1, 2012 Publication Date: October, 2012 Guest Editors: ____________________________________________ Laura GALLUCCIO ([email protected]) University of Catania, Italy Ozgur B. AKAN ([email protected]) Koc University, Turkey Sasitharan BALASUBRAMANIAM ([email protected]) Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. Raghupathy SIVAKUMAR ([email protected]) Georgia Institute of Technology, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Laura Galluccio, Ph. D. University of Catania Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica ed Informatica V.le A. Doria 6 95125 Catania, Italy [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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
