Subject: [dtn-interest] IEEE JSAC SI on D2D Communications

From: Chonggang Wang <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:01:07 -0800 (PST)

CALL FOR PAPERS

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IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Device-to-Device Communications in Cellular Networks
(http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Calls/DevicetoDeviceCFP.pdf)

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2013

Mobile data traffic, especially mobile video traffic, has dramatically increased in recent years with the emergence of smart phones, tablets, and various new applications. It is hence crucial to increase network capacity to accommodate these bandwidth consuming applications and services. Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising concept to improve user experiences and resource utilization in cellular networks, both for licensed and unlicensed spectrum. It enables two mobile devices in proximity of each other to establish a direct local link and to bypass the base station or access point. D2D communication may either be network-controlled where the operator manages the switching between direct and conventional cellular links, or the direct links may be managed by the devices without operator control. D2D allows combining infrastructure-mode and ad hoc communication. 

Device-to-device communications may have advantages such as: 1) improved performance for devices; 2) improved spectrum reuse and system throughput; 3) offloading in cellular networks; 4) improved energy efficiency; 5) extended coverage; 6) creation of new services. It also poses new problems and challenges. A issue is how to share resources dynamically (e.g. spectrum and energy) between cellular communication and ad hoc D2D communication to accommodate larger volumes of traffic and to provide better service to users. Other challenges include: identification of services for which D2D communication is useful; radio resource allocation and resource management; self-organizing direct links; proximity-based offloading, and capacity evaluation and performance comparison.

The special issue addresses research advances that enable D2D communications in cellular networks. The goal is to report on the most up-to-date contributions in this area. Device-to-device communication must be central to all topics that include, but are not limited to, the following.
 •Power and interference management 
•Proximity-based detection and offloading 
•Self-organizing device discovery
•Cognitive and cooperative D2D communication
•Device vs operator controlled link establishment 
•Link management and mode selection
•Capacity analysis and energy efficiency evaluation 
•Group communication and broadcasting
•Multi-hop D2D communications
•Quality improvement for real-time applications
•Channel measurements and modelling
•Mobility measurements, modelling and management
•New services and applications 
 
Submission Guideline

Authors should refer to the submission rules specified in the “Information for Authors” section of the JSAC guidelines (www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html) to prepare their papers. Papers should be submitted through EDAS (http://www.edas.info) according to the following schedule: 
•Manuscript submission: May 1, 2013 
•Notification: October 1, 2013
•First revision due:November 1, 2013
•Final notification:December 1, 2013
•Final manuscript due: January 1, 2014 
•Publication date: 2nd Quarter, 2014
 
Guest Editors
•Dr. Chonggang Wang, InterDigital Communications, USA ([email-masked])
•Professor Jiangzhou Wang, University of Kent, UK ([email-masked])
•Dr. George Chrisikos, Qualcomm Inc., USA ([email-masked])
•Dr. Yoshihisa Kishiyama, NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan ([email-masked])
•Professor Roger Cheng, Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., Hong Kong ([email-masked])
•Professor Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua University, China ([email-masked])
•Professor Kun Yang, University of Essex, UK ([email-masked])