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Special Issue on Green Cognitive and Cooperative Communication and Networking Wireless communication has nowadays become one of the major worldwide causes of energy consumption in the field of ICT, with a devastating impact in terms of pollution and energy waste. As a result, the past decade has witnessed tremendous efforts and progress made by both the industry and academia for improving energy and power efficiency in current and emerging wireless communication networks, among which cognitive and cooperative communication are proposed as key technologies to increase both spectrum and energy efficiency. With cognitive and cooperative communication, the use of larger spectrum band and the opportunistic adaptation of the spectrum use lead to more effective interference management, better spatial and temporal reuse, thus reducing the power consumption. Despite the ever growing interests, the research on green cognitive and cooperative communication and networking is still in its infancy. Some fundamental problems are still open and require immediate studies, for example: How to optimally apply cognitive and cooperative communication techniques to increase the energy efficiency without sacrificing significantly the users enjoyed quality of service? How to minimize the energy consumption overhead introduced by cognitive and cooperative communication such as spectrum sensing, channel switching, cooperative relaying? Thus, there is an urgent need to develop theoretical tools to guide the design of cognitive and cooperative communication and networking systems and to design new protocols and algorithms to increase the overall energy efficiency. In this special issue, we solicit unpublished high-quality research articles addressing key challenges and state-of-the-art solutions on the green cognitive and cooperative communication and networking. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Green cognitive and cooperative communication architectures and protocols Cross-layer design, adaptation and optimization of green cognitive and cooperative communication systems and networks Advanced signal processing techniques for energy-efficient networks Green spectrum usage, control and management Green radio resource management MAC layer design for cooperative communication architectures Routing and networking problems and related energy-efficiency issues in cognitive and cooperative networks Information theoretic aspects, asymptotic analysis, coding schemes and scaling law Decision making (game theory, reinforcement learning) to increase energy efficiency System level topics such as incentive for cooperation, and economics issues related to green cognitive and cooperative networks End-to-end QoS and energy-efficiency characterization and tradeoff studies Consumption management of green transmission systems Test beds, prototypes and experimental results; design limitations of green communication systems Applications of green cognitive and cooperative networks The Special issue will also include extended version of selected papers from GreenNets 2012. Important Dates Manuscript submission deadline: Sept. 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: Dec. 15, 2012 Submission of final revised paper: Mar. 1, 2013 Publication of special issue: 2nd Quarter, 2013 (Tentative) Submission Procedure Authors should follow the MONET Journal manuscript format at the journal site: http://www.springerlink.com/content/101750/. Manuscripts should be submitted on line through http://www.editorialmanager.com/mone/. A copy of the manuscript should also be emailed to the following email: [email protected]. Guest Editors Lin Chen, University of Paris-Sud, France ([email protected]), lead guest editor Wei Wang, Zhejiang University, China ([email protected]) Alagan Anpalagan, Ryerson University, Canada ([email protected]) Athanasios V. Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece ([email protected]) Best regards, Wei Wang Associate Professor Institute of Information and Communication Engineering Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China Homepage: http://mypage.zju.edu.cn/wangw 2012-08-21
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