Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

 

Special Issue on: "Algorithms and Protocols for Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks"

Guest Editors:
Dr. Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida, USA
Dr. Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Tom Pfeifer, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
Dr. Anura Jayasumana, Colorado State University, USA

The approaches of traditional stationary sensor networks lead to bottlenecks near the sink and non-uniform depletion of energy resources from the network. These approaches also decrease the probability of successful packet delivery with an increase in the number of hops from source to sink.

However, wireless and mobile computing technologies have advanced significantly in the last decade, providing various communication possibilities for mobile elements of networks without a pre-existing infrastructure. Providing solutions to these challenges, networks with one or more mobile elements have architectural requirements different from those with static sinks, since the nodes in the network would sense data at varied sampling rates and store the packets locally, awaiting the arrival of a mobile element.

One of the significant properties of a mobile element is that connectivity to the backbone network may not be available at all times. The mobile element would be able to receive data from a set of sensor nodes before returning to an access point to transfer all of the data and empty its buffers. The likelihood of a greater latency in packet delivery increases in such a situation, and it also results in intermittent connections among nodes. The nodes must benefit from contact opportunities whenever possible and the applications must better tolerate delays.

Therefore techniques for making applications tolerant to disruptions and/or high delays are required. Opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks yield to more realistic scenarios than legacy mobile ad hoc networks.

This special issue is dedicated to current state of the art in mobile sink applications and delay tolerant network protocols.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Joint routing, scheduling and channel assignment protocols for mobile sinks
• Routing and security trade-offs
• Routing performance under various node deployment schemes
• Moving strategies for mobile sinks
• Power-aware and energy-efficient designs for mobile sinks
• Distributed protocols supporting mobile sinks
• Tools and techniques for designing, analysing and building delay-tolerant networks
• Architectural principles of opportunistic and delay-tolerant networks
• QoS in delay-tolerant networks
• Network deployment, localisation and synchronization protocols
• Test-bed, prototype and practical systems
• Mathematical foundations of challenged networks
• Physical characteristics of performance-challenged networks

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 30 November, 2011

Notification of acceptance: 29 February, 2012

Submission of final papers: 30 April, 2012