Special Issues of JCM - Journal of Communications

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Journal of Communications (JCM, ISSN 1796-2021)
Special Issue on Wireless Gigabit Technologies

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is currently specifying the requirements for the next
generation mobile communication systems, the so called IMT-Advanced (IMT-A). The deployment of the latter at
mass market level is believed to take place around year 2015 and facilitate what has already been a buzzword
for the last decade, namely “4G”. IMT-A systems are expected to provide peak data-rates in the order of 1Gbit/s in
local areas and 100Mbit/s in wide areas. Such high data-rates require advances at all the layers of the protocol
stack. In the World Radio Congress, WRC 2007, new frequencies are specified for potential future broadband
wireless systems, which pave the way for future deployment of high-rate systems that are envisioned under the
IMT-A framework.

New techniques together with well-known solutions for high-rate networks need to be combined for realizing
such Gigabps systems. Such high data rates require both the usage of advanced Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output
(MIMO) techniques to achieve high spectral efficiency (bits/s/Hz) and very high spectrum allocation in the range of
100MHz. Designing systems for this kind of very large bandwidth with reasonable cost is a challenging task.
Thus, it is high-time now to concentrate on system design for such high bandwidth. Besides PHY and MAC
layers techniques, upper layers also need to adapt to the high bandwidth scenario. Radio resource
management need to be improved, where cooperation between users and base stations can be a great source
of advantage. Efficient resource allocation algorithms together with adaptive links will be the baseline for
obtaining such high spectral efficiency. All the algorithms should take into consideration that multiple antennas
at transmitter or receiver or at both locations will be a ubiquitous phenomenon for future devices, thus, the gains
of multiple antennas in terms of point-to-point (isolated links), point-to-multipoint (downlink) and multipoint-to-
point (uplink) scenarios need to be efficiently exploited to increase the system throughput. One very important
feature will be to provide sufficient Quality-of-Service (QoS) in terms of link quality, link security and cost-efficiency.

This special issue aims at publishing high quality research papers related to wireless Gigabit technologies.
Researchers working in these areas worldwide are invited to contribute.

Topics of interest include, but are NOT limited to:

General

Future 4G and IMT-Advanced systems
Cognitive Radios
Cooperative Communications
Cross-Layer Design and Optimization
Test-Beds, Experiments, Implementations and Applications

Physical Layer

Smart Antennas
Analog Front-End
Software-Defined Radios
Iterative Techniques, Detection and Decoding
Modulation Techniques (UWB, OFDM, etc.)
Advanced Coding (LDPC, Turbo, Multi-Level Coding, etc.)
Multi-Antenna Techniques (MIMO, etc.)
Channel Estimation, Channel Sounding and Channel Modeling
Synchronization

Medium Access Control Layer

Duplexing Schemes (TDD, FDD, etc.)
Multiple Access Schemes (OFDMA, SC-FDMA, MC-CDMA, etc.)
Interference Management, Cancellation and Avoidance
Radio Resource Management (Power Control, Packet Scheduling, etc.)
Flexible Spectrum Usage

Network Layer

Network Architectures (Centralized, Distributed, etc.)
Self-Organizing and Self-Optimizing Networks
Joint Scheduling and Routing
Network Synchronization

Submission Guidelines

We invite original research papers, survey and tutorial papers, on both applied and theoretical aspects, which
are previously unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be written
in English and not exceed 12 pages in length. Whenever applicable, submissions must include the following
elements: title, authors, affiliations, contacts, abstract, index terms, introduction, main text, conclusions,
appendixes, acknowledgements, references and biographies. Submissions must be directly sent in PDF format
via email to Guest Editors: sf@es.aau.dk, nm@es.aau.dk, or muhammad.imadur.rahman@ericsson.com, with a
covering e-mail clearly stating the name, address and affiliation of the corresponding author. Please identify your
submission in the email subject line “Submission -JCM Special Issue on GigaTech”. Complete guidelines for
prospective authors can be found on-line at http://www.academypublisher.com/forauthors.html.

Important Dates

Guest Editors

Dr. Simone Frattasi

Radio Access Technology

Dept. of Electronic Systems

Aalborg University

Aalborg,

Denmark

. Email:

sf@es.aau.dk

Dr. Nicola Marchetti

Radio Access Technology

Dept. of Electronic Systems

Aalborg University