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  EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

  Special Issue on

  Quality of Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  Call for Papers

Mobile ad hoc networking is a challenging task due to a lack
of resources residing in the network as well as frequent changes in
network topology. Although much research has been directed to
supporting QoS in the Internet and traditional wireless networks,
present results are not suitable for mobile ad hoc network (MANET).
QoS support for mobile ad hoc networks remains an open problem,
drawing interest from both academia and industry under military
and commercial sponsorship. MANETs have certain unique characteristics
that pose several difficulties in provisioning QoS, such as dynamically
varying network topology, lack of precise state information, lack of
central control, error-prone shared radio channels, limited resource
availability, hidden terminal problems, and insecure media, and little
consensus yet exists on which approaches may be optimal. Future MANETs
are likely to be ?multimode³ or heterogeneous in nature. Thus, the
routers comprising a MANET will employ multiple, physical-layer wireless
technologies, with each new technology requiring a multiple-access (MAC)
protocol for supporting QoS. Above the MAC layer, forwarding, routing,
signaling, and admission control policies are required, and the best
combination of these policies will change as the underlying hardware
technology evolves.

The special issue solicits original papers dealing with state-of-the-art
and up-to-date efforts in design, performance analysis, implementation
and experimental results for various QoS issues in MANETs. Fundamental
research results as well as practical implementations and demonstrators
are encouraged.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

    o QoS models and performance evaluation of MANET
    o QoS resource reservation signaling
    o Various QoS routing protocols
    o Flexible MAC protocols
    o Robust modeling and analysis of MANET resource management
    o Dynamic and hybrid resource allocation schemes
    o Resource control and multimedia QoS support
    o Channel characterization
    o QoS management and traffic engineering
    o Tools and techniques for MANET measurement and simulation
    o Adaptive QoS provisioning issues
    o Information assurance and reliability in MANET

Authors should follow the EURASIP JWCN manuscript format
described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.info/wcn/
Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their
complete manuscript through the EURASIP JWCN's manuscript
tracking system at journal's web site, according
to the following timetable.

  Manuscript Due              August 1, 2005
  Acceptance Notification     December 1, 2005
  Final Manuscript Due        February 1, 2006
  Publication Date            2nd Quarter, 2006

GUEST EDITORS:

Wei (Wayne) Li, Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, The University of Toledo, Toledo,
OH 43606, USA; wli@eecs.utoledo.edu

Mohsen Guizani, Department of Computer Science, Western
Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA;
mguizani@cs.wmich.edu

Demetrios Kazakos, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844,
USA; kazakos@ece.uidaho.edu

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