Journal of Computer Networks and Communications - Special issue Recent Advances in Self-Organizing Cellular Networks: Analysis, Deployment, Management, and Optimization
Call for Papers In the current 2G and 3G wireless networks, planning, commissioning, configuration, integration, management, and optimization of network elements play an important role in their proper operation. These procedures often involve a large number of parameters, which are typically tuned manually. This tuning process is costly, as specialized expertise must be involved, and potentially error-prone. As a consequence, the ability to detect and localize automaticaly network failures in future networks as well as to heal itself would be of enormous value to the cellular community; for example, one of the goals of 3GPP is to allow LTE networks to self-optimize and self-organize themselves. By doing so, the operators can reduce the running costs while improving the network performance. This special issue attempts to cover recent advances of communications in the context of self-organizing cellular networks. We invite authors to submit original researches and review articles regarding self-organizing networks in the context of LTE, LTE Advanced, and WiMAX/WiMAX2. Contributions regarding both the radio access as well as the core aspects of the cellular networks are welcome. Submissions should make explicit reference to the self-organizing elements of the contribution. Techniques tailored to specific 4G systems, such as LTE-A or WiMAX2, will be particularly appreciated. The editors reserve the right to reject any manuscript that they believe does not fit the scope of this special issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Modelling, analysis, and deployment of SONs CAPEX and OPEX savings Self-configuration, self-optimization, and self-healing protocols SON architecture: centralized, decentralized, and hybrid SON operations Cooperation and synchronization Green approaches and energy efficiency mechanisms Admission control and scheduling for automatic congestion detection, avoidance, and mitigation Radio resource management (power control, channel allocation) Intercell interference coordination, cancellation, and alignment Velocity estimation, mobility robust optimization, load balancing Carrier aggregation Coordinated multipoint transmissions/receptions Game theoretic methods and reinforcement learning Heterogeneous networks (self-organizing picocells, femtocells, and relay nodes) Coverage and capacity optimiation Physical Cell ID automatic configuration Automatic neighbor relation Random access channel (RACH) optimization Novel SON techniques to large-scale problems Radio parameter optimization Transport parameter optimization Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jcnc/guidelines/ and http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jcnc/. 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 Friday, 1 June 2012 First Round of Reviews Friday, 24 August 2012 Publication Date Friday, 19 October 2012 Lead Guest Editor Raymond Kwan, Ubiquisys Ltd., London, UK Guest Editors David López-Pérez, Centre for Telecommunications Research, Kings College London, London, UK Guillaume de la Roche, Mindspeed Technologies, France Sayandev Mukherjee, DOCOMO Innovations Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 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
