CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue on Performance Modeling and Simulation for Future Mobile Networks Mathematical and Computer Modelling (MCM), Elsevier, ISSN: 0895-7177 Over the past decade, mobile network technologies influenced and changed the quality of life. Meanwhile, the explosive growth of data traffic for the current and emerging user services creates a number of issues in mobile networks. Especially, mobility protocols, architectures, and application services have posed various challenges to both academic and industry people. In particular, the key challenges for improving efficiency, scalability and reliability are the development of performance modeling methods and the accurate measurement of performance of deployed mobile networks. These challenges motivate us to design and develop new protocols, architectures, and services for future mobile networks. Research results in analytical, simulation, and experimental approaches on performance modeling and simulation studies for future mobile networks are welcome. This special issue is intended to disseminate the latest research results of performance modeling and simulation for future mobile networks. Especially, this special issue will not only focus on performance modeling and simulation issues of mobility protocols and architectures, but also address performance modeling and simulation issues of mobility application services. Accordingly, this special issue will bring together the industry and academic people working on mobile networks and highlight future directions in this area. Main Topics of this Special Issue: The followings are the main topics that the proposed special issue mainly considers: • • • • • • • •

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sensor, human, and vehicle mobilities mobility protocols, e.g., MIPv6, FMIPv6, HMIPv6, PMIPv6, and Shim6 mobility architectures, e.g., hierarchical and flat architectures mobility application services, e.g., mobile social networking and mobile games location management and handover bandwidth allocation and resource scheduler mobile traffic security protocol and access control management

Submission Guidelines: Prospective authors are invited to submit their complete manuscripts electronically through the online submission system of Mathematical and Computer Modelling (MCM) at http://ees.elsevier.com/mcm/. The authors must carefully follow the author guidelines at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/623/authorinstructions. When submitting the manuscripts, the authors should make sure to choose “SI: Future Mobile Networks” in the online submission system. Schedule: • • • • •

Manuscript Due: 1 August, 2011 First Round of Review Notification: 15 October, 2011 Revised Manuscript Submission: 30 November, 2011 Final Notification: 20 December, 2011 Publication Date: TBD

Guest Editors: • • • •

Dr. Jong-Hyouk Lee ([email protected], [email protected]), INRIA, France Prof. Hae-Duck Joshua Jeong ([email protected]), Korean Bible University, Korea Prof. Roksana Boreli ([email protected]), NICTA and University of NSW, Australia Prof. Krzysztof Pawlikowski ([email protected]), University of Canterbury, New Zealand