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CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE
Context-Aware Networking and Communications
Context-aware communication and computing have attracted increasing
attention since it allows automatic adaptation of devices, systems, and
applications to the changing user's context. The context is the
information characterizing the situation of an entity and providing
information about the present status of people, places, things and
devices in the environment. An entity is a person, device, place, or
object relevant to the interaction between a user and an application,
such as location, time, activities, and services. Context awareness
allows for customization or creation of the application to match the
preferences of the individual user, based on current context such as
enterprise environment or home network.
A first area of interest concerns the Person Context Awareness. The
recent emergence of the so-called social networks, the widespread
presence of smartphones equipped by heterogeneous sensors, such as GPS
receivers, accelerometers, compasses, microphones and cameras, and the
availability of geo-referenced information enable analysis of new
context definitions that may concern individual, social, and urban
scenarios. Indeed, recently, the available information may include
mobility patterns of people and also physical activities (movements),
physical status, and emotional conditions. This information is often
acquired and shared, in real time, by users. Allowing the reliable
extraction and sharing of that information is a fundamental research
issue with important applications. It could improve the experience of
individual, communities, organizations, and societies by adapting
context to the environment (home, hospitals, campuses, offices, etc.).
Another area in this field deals with the Object Context Awareness.
Context awareness may be implemented using quite different aspects under
different environments, conditions, and layers, such as layered
context-aware architecture for middleware, context awareness for
connecting entities of network components, and infrastructure (Internet
protocol, handoff management, sensing, network requirements, network
controls and network implementation).
This feature topic's scope will include both computing and
communications networks, especially mobile computing networks. This
topic will focus on more recent relevant topics, such as green context
awareness (which would be supported by Technical Subcommittee on Green
Communications and Computing [TSCGCC] of the IEEE Communications
Society), context-aware security, new context-aware network
architecture, and context-awareness for connecting entities (which would
be supported by Technical Committee on Satellite and Space
Communications [SSC] of the IEEE Communications Society), and
context-aware social networks.
The papers in this feature topic will focus on state-of-the-art research
and emerging industry technologies in Context-Aware Networking and
Communications. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest
that include, but are not limited to, the following:
Context-aware protocols, algorithms, architecture
Context-aware green communications and computing networking
Context-aware modeling and analysis methods
Context-aware security approaches
Context-aware distributed systems
Context-awareness in the Internet of Things
Context-aware semantic networking, including semantic Web
Context-aware data storage and cloud computing
Context-aware recommender systems
Context-awareness in smart spaces
Context-awareness in wireless/wired networks
Context-awareness in multimedia content distribution
Adaptive and context-based multimodal interaction
Context-aware communications services and applications
Location-aware services and/or context-aware location tracking
Context-aware messaging and/or addressing and/or routing
Mobile phone sensing
Personal awareness in smart environments
Social context understanding and/or social interaction among peers
Context-aware social networks
Urban awareness for communications and networking
Social agents and avatars
Virtual humans for communications and networking
Standardizations and regulations for context-aware information
networking and communications
Prospective authors should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine
manuscript format described in the Authors Guidelines
(http://www.comsoc.org/commag/paper-submission-guidelines). All articles
to be considered for publication must be submitted through the IEEE
Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com, select
"June 2014/Context-Aware Networking and Communications" from the
drop-down menu), according to the following timetable:
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: February 1, 2014
Final Manuscript Due: April 1, 2014
Publication Date: June, 2014
Guest Editors
Jinsong Wu, Bell Laboratories, China, [email protected]
Igor Bisio, University of Genoa, Italy, [email protected]
Haibo Li, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, [email protected]
Ekram Hossain, University ofManitoba, Canada, [email protected]
Chris Gniady, University of Arizona, USA, [email protected]
Massimo Valla, Telecom Italia S.p.A., Italy, [email protected]
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Igor Bisio - Ph. D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Telecommunication, Electronic, Electrical Engineering
and Naval Architecture
University of Genoa
Via Opera Pia 13, 16145 Genova (Italy)
Tel: +39-010-3532803
Fax: +39-010-3532154
Mob: +39-366-6060816
e-mail: [email protected]
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