Call for Papers : IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Special Issue on “Machine-to-Machine Technologies & Architectures”
An unprecedented communication paradigm facilitating the connection between a prior unseen number of devices is currently gripping both industrial as well as academic communities. Referred to as machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, it is essentially composed of three key ingredients: 1) a wireless end-device, 2) an infrastructure-based or infrastructure-less wireless carrier network, and 3) the back-end server network. M2M systems bear very specific and unparalleled challenges in both research and development. Prime design drivers here are the need for virtually zero-outage, immediate-response and high-efficiency to support reliable, green, long-living and delay-constrained M2M applications. With no clear winner established so far, two orthogonal approaches have thus commenced to contend for the M2M market, i.e. 1) cellular solutions which rely on wide coverage (GSM, UMTS, LTE, LTE-A, etc.); and 2) purely embedded short-range solutions relying on cheap deployments (low-power Wi-Fi, ultralow-power Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc.). The aim of this special issue on machine-to-machine is to collect from industrial and academic players tutorials and surveys related to latest M2M technologies and architectures. Contributions on major developments and updates on M2M systems will be considered. Of great interest are currently being standardized, already standardized but also promising M2M technologies and architectures. The topics relevant to this special issue include but are not limited to: • data centric approaches (M2M data fusion, aggregation, source coding, signal processing, etc.) • protocol centric approaches (novel PHY, MAC and networking paradigms, etc.) • technology centric approaches (cellular M2M technologies, capillary M2M technologies, etc.) • architecture centric approaches (ETSI M2M, 3GPP MTC, WiMAX approaches, etc.) • inter-system and heterogeneous approaches (M2M coexistence with other technologies, etc.) • key functionalities (security, synchronization, virtualization, etc.) Papers must be tailored to the problems of M2M and explicitly consider their constraints in terms of large number of nodes, short messages, resource constraints, etc. The editors maintain the right to reject papers they deem to be out of scope of this special issue. Only originally unpublished contributions and invited articles will be considered for the issue. The papers should be formatted according to the IEEE-TTS guidelines (http://dl.comsoc.org/livepubs/surveys/authors.html). Authors should submit a PDF version of their complete manuscript via Manuscriptcentral (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/comst-ieee) according to the timetable below. Important Dates: Submission deadline: 1 October 2012 Author Notification: January 2013 Final Manuscript: May 2013 Publication: Q3 2013 Guest Editors: Mischa Dohler CTTC, Spain (mischa.dohler at cttc.es; supported by EXALTED) Joerg Swetina NEC Labs Europe, Germany (joerg.swetina at neclab.eu) Angeliki Alexiou Univ. of Piraeus, Greece (alexiou at unipi.gr; supported by EXALTED) Chonggang Wang Interdigital, USA (chonggang.wang at interdigital.com) Patricia Martigne Orange, France (patricia.martigne at orange.com) Kan Zheng BUPT, China (zkan at bupt.edu.cn) _______________________________________________ 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
