[agents] CFP IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks"

[Antonio de la Oliva]

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Recent Advances in Technologies for Extremely Dense Wireless Networks
(http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0115.html)

** DESCRIPTION
The ever growing demand from users of mobile networks, in terms of
both capacity and coverage, is driving the current (e.g., IEEE 802.11,
LTE, WiMAX) and near-future (e.g., LTE-Advanced, IEEE 802.11ac/ad/af
and High Efficiency WLAN - HEW) technologies alike towards their
limits. The more sustainable solution to the 5G promise of true
ubiquitous mobile broadband is to deploy very dense wireless networks,
which we call DenseNets. Intuition based on experience suggests that
DenseNets will encompass significant overlapping, and possibly
non-interoperable technologies, which can be seen as an evolution of
today’s heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Similar to HetNet but only
more severe, DenseNets will have to face a multitude of
techno-economic challenges such as backhaul availability, very low
cost of small base stations, operation, administration and management
(OAM), Machine Type Communications (MTC), etc.

Some of the relevant issues already identified in the DenseNets
scenarios include the nonlinear characteristics of the achieved
throughput and energy consumption. As an increased number of cells are
being deployed, the effect of the interference becomes dominant,
resulting on an overall throughput which is not linear with the number
of cells. Similar nonlinear effects on energy efficiency have been
observed due to the need for the equipment to be continuously serving
high demand applications.

In order to overcome these problems, a new family of solutions
characterized by the use of cooperative approaches is required to take
advantage of the new opportunities brought by the DenseNets scenarios.
This opens a broad spectrum of research directions, standardisation
paths, and market opportunities, which will involve the relevant
communities in both academia and industry in the forthcoming years.

The goal of this feature topic is to publish original material, either
research or review articles, on the topic of extremely dense wireless
networks (DenseNets). All material should be comprehensible and
accessible to non-expert readers.

** TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Exploration of the fundamental limits of wireless networks
(scalability, capacity, ...)
- Real life experiences with DenseNets (deployments, large scale testbeds, ...)
- Novel business models, requirements, use cases, and applications
- Analysis and simulation of extremely dense wireless networks
- Advanced mobility management solutions within DenseNets resulting in
extremely fast handover (Distributed Mobility Management - DMM, PMIPv6
and beyond, ...)
- Software Defined Networking (SDN) approaches for wireless/cellular networks
- Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) approaches for DenseNets
- Novel theoretical frameworks for DenseNets
- Energy Efficiency techniques for DenseNets
- Approaching density-proportional capacity of DenseNets
- Evolved network management and Operations Systems Support (OSS) for DenseNets
- Standards and technologies for small cells (IEEE 802.11, LTE HeNB, ...)
- 3GPP LTE-Advanced and beyond-LTE support to DenseNets

** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
This Feature Topic Issue solicits original work that must not be under
consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should refer to
the IEEE Communications Magazine's author guidelines at
http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines for
information about content, constraints (4500 words or less, no
mathematical content, etc.), and formatting of submissions.
Manuscripts must be written in English, contain substantial tutorial
content, and be accessible to a broad general audience working in
other fields. Please submit manuscripts to Manuscript Central at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee, and select the category
"January 2015/Extremely Dense Wireless Networks."

** IMPORTANT DATES
Manuscript Submission Due: May 1, 2014
Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2014
Final Manuscript Due: November 1, 2014
Publication Date: January 2015


** GUEST EDITORS
David Chieng, MIMOS Berhad (Malaysia)
Claudio Cicconetti, Intecs S.p.A. (Italy)
Antonio de la Oliva, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
Juan Carlos Zúñiga, InterDigital Inc. (Canada)

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Antonio de la Oliva
Visiting Professor
Telematics Department
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
E-mail: aoliva at it.uc3m.es
Phone: +34 91 624 8803
Fax:   +34 91 624 8749