International Journal of Wireless Information Networks

MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS (MANETs): Standards, Research, Applications

General
Wireless, multihop networks (known as ad hoc networks) are emerging as a new promising field in wireless communications. An ad hoc network consists of nodes which organize themselves into a network by means of distributed algorithms. Thus, in a wireless ad hoc network there is no need for pre existing infrastructure and centralized control, allowing ad hoc networks to be quickly deployed. This distributed nature of ad hoc networks, however, demands sophisticated protocols, in order to cope with the constantly shifting topology of the network. Furthermore, these networks are energy and bandwidth constrained. Challenges to be resolved before MANETs can be widely deployed are, among others, the mobility of network nodes, access performance, clustering techniques etc

Scope
With this special issue we intend to cover topics on the design, modeling, performance, standardization efforts and field tests concerning MANETs. We are seeking for both tutorial and research papers, original, unpublished and not currently under review by another conference or journal. Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to:

· Network architectures and protocols
· Power efficient techniques
· Access techniques
· Routing and multicasting
· Transport protocols
· Clustering
· Qos in MANETs
· Bluetooth, Hiperlan and other standardization efforts
· Implementation and testbed results
· Interoperation with cellular networks/Internet etc
· Performance Evaluation/Comparison with other techniques (wmATM etc)
· Sensor networks

Deadlines
Manuscript due:  September 15  2001
Acceptance:        December   1   2001
Camera Ready:  January       1   2002
Publication:         April                 2002

Guest Editors
Mario Gerla
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Dept. of Computer Science
Email: gerla@cs.ucla.edu

Niovi Pavlidou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: niovi@vergina.eng.auth.gr

Werner Mohr
Siemens SA, Munich
Email: Werner.Mohr@icn.siemens.de
 

Submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit electronically (ps or pdf) manuscripts to Dr. N. Pavlidou (niovi@vergina.eng.auth.gr) by Sept. 15 2001. Submissions should be limited to 20 double space pages excluding figures, graphs and illustrations. If email is impossible then six copies of the paper should be sent to:

Dr. Niovi Pavlidou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
P.O.Box 1641, 54006 Thessaloniki, GR