Subject: [6tisch] Call for Papers, Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on Networking and Communications for Smart Cities

From: Fabrice Theoleyre <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 21:37:13 +0100

Computer Communications Journal

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Special Issue on Networking and Communications for Smart Cities
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Smart Cities are technology-intensive cities in which the importance and role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is expanding. ICT plays a key role toward the sustainable development of new urban environments. Buildings with smart sensors and control systems can measure their environment and control it in real time (e.g. HVAC). Smart metering allows a utility company to match its production to the demand, dynamically. An electricity provider can influence both production and demand through the use of smart grid technology.

This special issue revolves on the following foundational question: what are the “unique” context characteristics, application and control needs, and traffic/user patterns in existing (and futuristic) smart city scenarios, which require a rethinking of networking and communication technologies and systems, as well as their relevant modeling and dimensioning methodologies?

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SCOPE
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The scope of this special issue is on purpose kept broad in terms of networking and communication technologies. Rather, perspective contributions are expected to sharply target aspects and requirements which clearly distinguish smart cities from general purpose networking and communication systems. We aim at assembling high quality papers which show how smart cities and sensor-generated traffic uniquely challenge current access and transport technologies and protocols, and bring about compelling solutions to such emerging issues, new modeling insights, new monitoring and control means, and so on. We especially welcome work devised to:

• explore how existing technologies and protocols need to be revisited/adapted to fit the urban cities requirements, or, conversely, highlight latest technology shifts or propose new context-specific solutions;
• provide experimentally supported models and feedbacks from urban-scale pilot and production deployments;
• address emerging new applications and/or new challenges.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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• Machine to Machine services/patterns and their communication and networking support
• Quality of Service, fairness provisioning and Service Level Agreementsfor dense deployments;
• Multi-client large-scale networks (fairness, cohabitation)
• Privacy for smart-metering (anonymity, presence detection, tracking)
• Co-located Networks and inter-technology interference;
• Multi-technology networks and inter-operability for the smart grid (e.g. PLC, IEEE 802.15.4, wirelessHART);
• Mobile wireless networks for car traffic surveillance and management;
• Emerging standards for urban wireless networks;
• Experimental network measurements and characterization for urban environments;
• Commercial applications, technological choices and success stories;
• Prototypes, testbeds and pilot deployments (e.g. smart-metering, smart buildings, public transportation);

Submission
The submission website for this journal is located at http://ees.elsevier.com/comcom. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for consideration by the Special Issue, the authors should select "SpecialIssue: Smart Cities" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Manuscript Due: January 15, 2014
First Round of Reviews: April 30, 2014
Revised Paper due: June 15, 2014
Final notification: July 15, 2014

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GUEST EDITORS
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Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy, [email-masked]
V. Cagri Gungor, Abdullah Gul University, Kayseri, Turkey; [email-masked]
Ai-Chun Pang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; [email-masked]
Fabrice Theoleyre, ICUBE, University of Strasbourg, Illkirch, France; [email-masked]
Gurkan Tuna, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey; [email-masked]
Thomas Watteyne, Linear Technology, Dust Networks Product Group, Hayward, CA, USA; [email-masked]