Subject: Call for chapters -- Handbook of Wireless Mesh Networks

From: Sudip Misra <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:16:39 -0700 (PDT)

Call for Chapters

HANDBOOK OF WIRELESS MESH NETWORKS

To be published by: Springer (London)

Online call for chapters:
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~smisra_/Call-for-Chapters--Wireless-Mesh-Networks.pdf

Wireless communication technologies are undergoing
rapid advancements. The last few years have
experienced a steep growth in research in the area of
wireless mesh networks (WMNs). Even though WMNs hold
great promises for our future, there are several
challenges that need to be addressed. This handbook
aims to provide a comprehensive guide on new ideas and
results on WMNs. It will be a valuable reference for
students, instructors, researchers, engineers and
strategists in this field. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:
* Evolution of WMNs
* Routing and traffic engineering
* Quality of service 
* Security and privacy 
* Self-healing schemes  
* Mobility management
* Fault tolerance
* Cross-layer interactions
* Error control
* Media access control
* Cognitive radio and WMNs
* Monitoring of WMNs
* Intermittent Connectivity
* Reputation systems

Editor:
Sudip Misra (Corresponding Editor)
Department of Computer Science
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
E-mail: [email-masked]

Submission Details:
High quality contributions ideally between 20-30 book
format pages that are not yet published or that are
not currently under review are sought, which can be
considered as different chapters in the book. The
editors intend to integrate all the chapters in the
book in a manner which can render it as a
supplementary reference book or text book for use in
an advanced course on networks. Therefore, while all
types of contributions will be considered for review,
good survey and tutorial type manuscripts on a
particular topic within WMNs will be of particular
interest. The chapters submitted should be written in
a manner that will help it for use for classroom
instructional purposes. Prospective authors are
requested to initially submit as soon as possible (and
latest by October 10, 2007), a short abstract of
100-150 words describing the chapter they intend to
submit for review. Full manuscripts are due by
November 30, 2007. Only MS Word format submissions
will be considered. Each manuscript should
compulsorily contain the following sections (with
exact headings) among others of choice of the authors:
introduction, background, thoughts for practitioners,
directions for future research, conclusions and
references. Also, at the end of the chapter, a list of
10 terminologies/keywords and their definitions, and a
set of 10 questions and their sample answers/solutions
that would help the potential readers of the chapter
to test their understanding of the concepts should
also be provided. Later on authors of selected
chapters might also be requested to provide 15-20
PowerPoint slides on their chapter that can be used
for teaching in the classrooms. Authors of submitted
papers might be contacted to personally review or get
reviewed at least two chapters submitted for
consideration in this book. Submission of a chapter
for review would imply the readiness of the author(s)
to publish the chapter in the book, if selected. Upon
acceptance of the manuscript, the corresponding author
will be sent guidelines for preparing the camera-ready
copy of the chapter. A chapter that fails to follow
the guidelines exactly as stated will not be
considered further. Authors of accepted chapters would
also be required to sign an agreement of copyright
transfer and an originality statement to the
publisher. 

Note: The list of topics that are already taken can be
found in:
http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~smisra_/interests-received-WMN.txt
Please contact the corresponding editor at
[email-masked] with a topic that is not
already taken.

Important Dates:
Statement of interest with title of submission due: As
soon as possible and latest by October 10, 2007. 
Full Manuscript Due: December 1, 2007.  
Acceptance Notification: January 31, 2008 
Final Manuscript Due: February 28, 2008
Publication Date: End of 2008 (tentative)

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