Call for Papers
Special Issue on Cooperation in Wireless Networks
Springer - Wireless Personal Communications

"The real egoistic behavior is to cooperate!" K. Edwin

1st May 2005

Call in PDF format

Scope of Special Issue

Cooperation between devices in wireless networks has been identified as one of the key technology enablers required to facilitate next generation wireless communication systems. Much of the existing research in wireless networking assumes a communication between one sender and one or multiple receiver(s). For reasons of self-interest, users may however allow terminals to engage in cooperative behavior, resulting in improved overall network performance. For cooperation, terminals will connect to each other using a short range communication link and simultaneously being connected to the centralized access point. This configuration allows many forms of cooperation. For this special issue, we distinguish between altruism and cooperation by requiring that cooperation benefit each entity involved. From this perspective, pure relaying is an example of altruism and not cooperation. Cooperation is not limited to a single ISO/OSI protocol layer, but can be addressed across multiple protocol layers. The focus of this call is to solicit novel papers addressing cooperation over all protocol layers from physical to application layer.

Submission and Important Dates

Papers should follow the Springer format (11pt, single column, double spaced) and not exceed twenty pages including figures and tables. Original papers should be send by submission deadline to

cooperation@kom.aau.dk

Dissemination of the Call	1st May 2005
Submission deadline	1st October 2005
Notification	15th January 2006
Final version	15th February 2006
Planed Issue	2nd half 2006

Topics of Interest

Original papers are invited in the area of cooperation in wireless networks. Papers must represent high-quality and previously unpublished work. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas of cooperative wireless networks:

Architectural Principles	Multi-Access Capability
Network Coding	Radio Access Technologies
Cooperative Processing	Resource Management
Distributed Radio	Cooperative Channel Coding
Heterogenous Networks	Terminal design
Self-organizing networks	Cognitive Networks
Middle-Ware	Grid-Computing
Source coding for cooperation	Cooperating Services

Guest Editors

Frank H.P. Fitzek	Mischa Dohler	Ian Opperman
Aalborg University, Denmark	France Telecom R&D	CWC, Oulu, Finland
ff@kom.aau.dk	mischa.dohler@francetelecom.com	ian@ee.oulu.fi
Antonella Molinaro	Marcos Katz	Christian Bettstetter
University "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria, Italy	SAMSUNG, Korea	DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Germany
antmolin@ing.unirc.it	marcos.katz@samsung.com	bettstetter@docomolab-euro.com