Modeling and Simulation of Mobile Radio Channels
Call for Papers
The ever-growing demand for multimedia services, high mobility, and global connectivity has resulted in recent years in an explosion of new technologies for wireless communication systems. All components of a wireless communication system ranging from digital modulation schemes over channel coding techniques up to higher layer protocols are more or less influenced by the characteristics of the mobile radio channel. A thorough understanding of the mobile radio channel is therefore crucial for the development, performance optimization, and testing of present as well as next-generation mobile radio systems. This is one of the reasons why exploring the mobile radio channel has always been a key research topic from the very beginning of mobile communications till today. Currently, the research on mobile radio channels involves a variety of challenging topics such as the modeling of car-to-car channels, MIMO channels, cooperative channels, satellite channels, and ultra-wideband channels, only to name a few. The objective of this special issue is to give an overview of the state-of-the-art research in the area of mobile radio channels.
We welcome authors to submit their original research articles or comprehensive reviews/tutorials focusing on the modeling and simulation of mobile radio channels. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Channel models for 3G and 4G wireless communication systems
- Channel models for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems
- Advances in indoor, outdoor, and indoor-to-outdoor channel modeling
- Channel models for mobile-to-mobile cooperative communication systems
- Channel models for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), and vehicle-to-person (V2P) wireless communications
- Ultra-wideband channels
- Channel models for satellite communications
- Channel models for underwater wireless communication networks
- Channel models for wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
- Advanced ray tracing techniques
- Channel sounding techniques
- Propagation and path loss models
- High-performance and efficient simulation techniques for mobile radio channels
- Characterization of stationary and nonstationary mobile radio channels
- Modeling and analysis of nonisotropic scattering environments
- Hardware and software channel simulators
- Information theoretic aspects of mobile radio channels
- Characterization and modeling of real-world mobile radio channels
- Channel parameter estimation techniques
- Estimation and extraction of channel state information (CSI)
- Channel capacity analysis
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/mse/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | Friday, 27 April 2012 |
| First Round of Reviews | Friday, 20 July 2012 |
| Publication Date | Friday, 14 September 2012 |
Lead Guest Editor
- Matthias Pätzold, Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder, 4604 Kristiansand, Norway
Guest Editors