vehicles, and even interactions among radios within vehicles, will help improve
radio resource and energy efficiency, road traffic management, network management, vehicular
diagnostics, road traffic awareness in applications such as route planning, mobile commerce, and more.
This special issue aims to study important achievements in CR in the last decade, present solutions to
remaining challenges, and furthermore to investigate the significant potential for CR to be of use in
vehicular domains. Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:
· CR enhanced V2V and V2I communications,
· CR enhanced vehicular ad hoc networks,
· CR enhanced radio resource management and QoS support in vehicular environments,
· PHY and MAC techniques for CR,
· Cognitive radio networking,
· Information theoretic analyses of CR,
· Interference mitigation in shared spectrum environments,
· Security issues for CR,
· Software Defined Radio (SDR) and reconfigurability,
· Standardization efforts such as IEEE 802.22, IEEE 1900 (SCC41), IEEE 802.16h, etc.,
· Higher layers and interdisciplinary research on CR (AI, computer vision, neural networks, etc.),
· Intelligent radio and cognition cycle considerations,
· Coding for CR channels,
· Biological-inspired networking for CR,
· Study of the applications and social impacts of CR, such as on public safety,
· Cooperative networking with shared resources,
· Cross-layer designs and architectures for CR,
· Beam-forming and MIMO for interference avoidance in the CR context,
· Self-organizing networks and autonomic communications,
· Policy and policy languages for shared spectrum management,
· Spectrum sensing techniques,
· Ultra-wideband for spectrum sharing in CR,
· Game theoretical analysis for CR.
Timeline:
· Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2009,
· First review deadline: August 1, 2009,
· Revised paper submission deadline: October 1, 2009,
· Second and final review deadline: December 1, 2009,
· Final manuscript submission deadline: January 15, 2010,
· Publication: May 2010.
Guest Editors:
Prof. Joseph Mitola III (Corresponding Guest Editor)
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ 07030-5911, USA
E-mail: joe.mitola@stevens.edu
Dr. Alireza Attar
King’s College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
E-mail: alireza.attar@ieee.org
Prof. Honggang Zhang
Zhejiang University
Zheda Road 38, Hangzhou 310027, China
E-mail: honggangzhang@zju.edu.cn
Dr. Oliver Holland
King’s College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
E-mail: oliver.holland@kcl.ac.uk
Dr. Hiroshi Harada
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
3-4 Hikarino-Oka, Yokosuka 239-0847, Japan
E-mail: harada@nict.go.jp
Prof. Hamid Aghvami
King’s College London
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
E-mail: hamid.aghvami@kcl.ac.uk