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				CALL FOR PAPERS 
			Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks
		       Elsevier's Computer Communications Journal

		    http:/www.cs.iusb.edu/~liqzhang/comcom/wimesh.htm

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Recently, wireless mesh networking is attracting significant interest from academia, 
industry, and standard organizations. With several favorable characteristics, 
such as dynamic self-organization, self-configuration, self-healing, easy maintenance, 
high scalability and reliable services, wireless mesh networks have been advocated 
as a cost-effective approach to support high-speed last mile connectivity and 
ubiquitous broadband access in the context of home networking, enterprise networking, 
or community networking. Despite recent advances, and the technical accumulations 
from more than a decade research efforts in mobile ad hoc networks, many research 
issues remain in all protocol layers of wireless mesh networks. For example, the 
introducing of mixed (infrastructure and ad hoc) architecture, multi-radio, 
multi-channel, and multi-antenna, have brought new challenges in the design of 
physical, MAC, and routing protocols. New application scenarios, such as all-wireless 
office, are urging researchers to address enhanced QoS support and various security 
issues in the design of different protocol layers for wireless mesh networks. 


The special issue seeks original and unpublished papers that address theoretical 
and experimental work at all layers of wireless mesh networks. Papers are solicited 
from, but are not limited to, the following topics: 

	Multi-radio and multi-channel wireless mesh networking 
	MAC protocols (IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20, and beyond) 
	Routing, scheduling, and channel assignment protocols
	Topology construction and maintenance 
	Physical layer techniques
	Cross layer optimizations 
	Testbed, prototype, and practical systems
	Methods and tools for wireless mesh networks simulation 
	Modeling and performance evaluations for wireless mesh networks
	Security-related issues in wireless mesh networks
	Quality of Service and multimedia communications over wireless mesh networks
	Intelligent system techniques for wireless mesh networks 
	Novel applications of wireless mesh networks
	Multi-hop wireless communications and ad hoc networking
	Power-aware and energy-efficient protocols and algorithms
	Self-organization, self-configuration network architectures
	Wireless LAN, PAN, MAN and WAN
	Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

IMPORTANT DATES
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Full papers due: August 31, 2007
Notification of acceptance: December 31, 2007
Cameral-ready due: February 29, 2008
Publication date: Spring/Summer 2008


SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting recent developments in the topics 
related to the special issue. The submitted papers must be written in English and 
describe original research not published nor currently under review by other journals 
or conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. 

All submitted papers, if relevant to the theme and objectives of the special issue, 
will go through an external peer-review process. Submitting a paper implies the willingness 
of reviewing one paper submitted to the special issue. Submissions should include an 
abstract, 5-10 key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The paper 
length should not exceed 30 double-spaced pages including figures and references on 8.5 
by 11 inch paper using at least 11 point font. For more information, please contact guest 
co-editors.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted via the journal's 
online submission and peer-review system at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/comcom. 
A prospective author should
1. Register in EES (follow the instructions on the site)
2. Select: Submit Manuscript from Main Menu
3. When choosing Article Type, please select the title of the special issue 
("Wireless Mesh Networks" for this Special issue submission) you are submitting to.


GUEST EDITORS
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Dr. Xiaobo Zhou
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs, CO 80933 
Email: zbo@cs.uccs.edu

Dr. Liqiang Zhang
Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences
Indiana University South Bend
South Bend, IN 46615
Email: liqzhang@cs.iusb.edu

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