IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Special Issues on Emerging Technologies in Communications
CALL FOR PAPERS
Area 8: Nanoscale and Molecular Networking
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Recent advances in MEMS/NEMS and systems biology combined with nanoscale robots, synthetic microorganisms, and lab-on-a-chip or process-on-a-chip applications are providing the test ground to unlock a host of disruptive technologies. However, in order to realize their full potential, these devices will need to be integrated by communication networks that may need to operate at the nanoscale or through multi-scales. The past decade has seen the rise of research in nanoscale and molecular networking as means of solving this problem.
Original papers on the following topics are sought for an upcoming special issue of the IEEE Journal on Special Areas in Communications (JSAC):
á Applications of nanoscale and molecular networking: Industrial applications; laboratory implementation and real-world evaluation; standardization.
á Systems and devices for nanoscale and molecular networking: communication components; antennas; carbon nanotube networks; microchannels; lab-on-chip systems; molecular motors; physical processes for emission and detection of molecular messages.
á Architectures for nanoscale and molecular networking: Interfacing with the macroscale world; communication protocols; modulation and coding schemes; multi-scale networking (nano-micro-macro).
á Analysis and design of nanoscale and molecular communication systems: Information-theoretic capacity of communication; parameter estimation; system models and designs; system comparison and performance measurement; localization and addressing; algorithmic aspects.
Papers will be published in a special online-only issue of IEEE JSAC, as part of a series on emerging technologies. Submission and paper handling will be via the EDAS system, http://edas.info. For further information, please send a message to the area editor, Dr. Andrew Eckford (aeckford@yorku.ca), or see http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/.
Important Dates
- First submission deadline June 15, 2012 July 31, 2012
- First review and initial decision October 1, 2012 October 15, 2012
- Second review and final decision December 15, 2012
- Final submission to publisher March 1, 2013
- Online publication of issue Mid-2013
Area Editorial Board
(Area editor) Dr. Andrew Eckford, York University, aeckford@yorku.ca
(Area associate editors) Dr. Raviraj Adve, University of Toronto
Dr. Wael Badawy, IntelliView Technologies
Dr. Stephen F. Bush, GE Global Research
Dr. Chan-Byoung Chae, Yonsei University
Dr. Satoshi Hiyama, NTT DoCoMo Research Laboratories
Dr. Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College
Dr. Sanjay Goel, University at Albany – SUNY
Dr. Manish Gupta, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Dr. Mark Leeson, University of Warwick
Dr. Bao Liu, University of Texas at San Antonio
Dr. Jian-Qin Liu, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Dr. Michael Moore, Osaka University
Dr. Amitava Mukherjee, IBM India
Dr. Tadashi Nakano, Osaka University
Dr. Janet Paluh, College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering, UAlbany – SUNY
Dr. R. Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology
(Issue co-editors-in-chief) Dr. Naohisa Ohta, Keio University
Dr. Andrzej Jajszczyk, AGH University of Science and Technology