Advances in Propagation Modelling for Wireless Systems

Call for Papers

The true challenge for new communication technologies is to ‘make the thing work’ in real-world wireless channels. System designers classically focus on the impact of the radio channel on the received signals and use propagation models for testing and evaluation of receiver designs and transmission schemes. Yet, the needs for such models evolve as new applications emerge with different bandwidths, terminal mobility, higher carrier frequencies, new antennas, and so forth. Furthermore, channel characterization also yields the fundamental ties to classical electromagnetics and physics, as well as the answers to some crucial questions in communication and information theory. In particular, it is of outstanding importance for designing transmission schemes which are efficient in terms of power or spectrum management.

The objective of this special issue is to highlight the most recent advances in the area of propagation measurement and modeling. Original and research articles are solicited in all aspects of propagation, including experimental characterization, channel sounding, theoretical modeling, hardware emulation and new communication technologies.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • 4G channel measurements and modeling
  • Fixed wireless access (including outdoor-to-indoor)
  • UWB propagation
  • 60 GHz channel measurements and modeling
  • Propagation models for wireless sensor networks, including RFIDs
  • Spectrum sensing and channel prediction for cognitive radio
  • Intra/inter vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure channel characterization
  • Body area propagation modeling
  • Double-directional and MIMO channels
  • Multiuser MIMO channels
  • Multi-hop and cooperative channels
  • Polarimetric channels
  • Shadowing correlation modeling
  • Temporal variations in wireless channels
  • Frequency and range dependence of parameters
  • High-resolution algorithms for parameter extraction
  • Channel prediction and tracking
  • Numerical methods in wireless channel modeling
  • Advances in channel emulation and sounding

Authors should follow the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/. 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 DueAugust 1, 2008
First Round of ReviewsNovember 1, 2008
Publication DateFebruary 1, 2009

Guest Editors:

  • Claude Oestges, Microwave Laboratory, Université Catholique de Louvain,1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Michael Jensen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
  • Persefoni Kyritsi, Antennas, Propagation and Radio Networking Section, Aalborg University, 9100 Aalborg, Denmark
  • Mansoor Shafi, Telecom New Zealand, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
  • Jun-ichi Takada, Department of International Development Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan