Wireless Cooperative Networks

Call for Papers

Cooperative networks are gaining increasing interest from ICT society due to the capability of improving the performance of communication systems as well as providing a fertile environment for the development of context-aware services.

Cooperative communications and networking is a new communication paradigm involving both transmission and distributed processing promising significant increase of capacity and diversity gain in wireless networks, by counteracting faded channels with cooperative diversity.

On one hand, the integration of long-range and short-range wireless communication networks (e.g., infrastructured networks such as 3G, wireless ad hoc networks, and wireless sensor networks) improves the performance in terms of both area coverage and quality of service (indeed representing a form of diversity reflected in a greater capacity and number of potential users). On the other hand, the cooperation among heterogeneous nodes, as in the case of wireless sensor networks, allows a distributed space-time signal processing supporting, with a reduced complexity or energy consumption per node, environmental monitoring, localization techniques, distributed measurements, and so forth

The relevance of this topic is also reflected by numerous sessions in current international conferences on the field as well as by the increasing number of national and international projects worldwide financed on these aspects.

List of topics

This issue tries to collect cutting-edge research achievements in this area. We solicit papers that present original and unpublished work on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

  • Physical layer models, for example, channel models (statistics, fading, MIMO, feedback)
  • Device constraints (power, energy, multiple access, synchronization) and resource management
  • Distributed processing and resource management for cooperative networks, for example, distributed compression in wireless sensor networks, channel and network codes design
  • Performance metrics, for example, capacity, cost, outage, delay, energy, scaling laws
  • Cross-layer issues, for example, PHY/MAC/NET interactions, joint source-channel coding, separation theorems
  • Multiterminal information theory
  • Multihop communications
  • Integration of wireless heterogeneous (long- and short-range) systems

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:

Manuscript DueNovember 1, 2007
First Round of ReviewsFebruary 1, 2008
Publication DateMay 1, 2008

Guest Editors

  • Andrea Conti, Engineering Department in Ferrara (ENDIF), University of Ferrara, 44100 Ferrara, Italy
  • Jiangzhou Wang, Department of Electronics, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NT, UK
  • Hyundong Shin, Department of Radio Communication Engineering, School of Electronics and Information, Kyung Hee University, Gueonggi-Do 449-701, South Korea
  • Ramesh Annavajjala, ArrayComm Inc., San Jose, CA 95131-1014, USA
  • Moe Win, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA