Network Coding for Wireless Networks
Call for Papers
The main idea in network coding was introduced in 2000 by Ahlswede et al. With network coding, an intermediate node in a network cannot only forward its incoming packets but also encode them. It has been shown that the use of network coding can enhance the performance of wired networks significantly. Recent work indicates that network coding can also offer significant benefits for wireless networks.
Communications over wireless channels are error-prone and unpredictable due to fading, mobility, and intermittent connectivity. Moreover, in wireless networks, transmissions are broadcast and can be overhead by neighbors, which is treated in current systems as interference. Finally, security poses new challenges in wireless networks, where both passive and active attacks have quite different premises than in wired networks. Ideas in network coding promise to help toward all these issues, allowing to gracefully add redundancy to combat errors, take advantage of the broadcast nature of the wireless medium and achieve opportunistic diversity, exploit interference rather than be limited by it, and provide secure network communication against adversarial attacks.
In this special issue, we are interested in original research articles which can carry the momentum further and take the wireless network coding research to the next level. The areas of interest include novel network code designs and algorithms, new applications of wireless network coding, network coding capacity, and performance analysis. In addition to original research articles, we are open to review articles. The following list indicates topics of interest which is by no means exhaustive:
- Network codes and algorithms for wireless networks
- Physical layer network coding
- Joint source coding and network coding
- Graph codes and network coding
- Reduced complexity decoding for network coding
- Secure network coding
- Capacity and fundamental bounds on network coding performance
- Cross-layer optimization and network coding
- Energy-efficient network coding
- TCP, routing, MAC, or scheduling algorithms for network codes
- Wireless network coding for multimedia application
- Wireless network coding for bio-medical application
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. 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 | October 1, 2009 |
| First Round of Reviews | January 1, 2010 |
| Publication Date | April 1, 2010 |
Lead Guest Editor
- Heung-No Lee, Department of Information and Communications, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea
Guest Editors
- Sae-Young Chung, School of EECS, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
- Christina Fragouli, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Zhi-Hong Mao, ECE/Bio-Medical Dept., the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA