CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: April 1, 2013
A book edited by Dr. Ramona Trestian and Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean
Dublin City University, Ireland
To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/906
Introduction:
In the ever-evolving telecommunication industry, smart mobile computing devices have become increasingly affordable and powerful, leading to significant growth in the number of advanced mobile users and their bandwidth demands. Technological improvements alone would not be able to keep up with this explosion of mobile broadband traffic. Thus, even though LTE-Advanced is seen as a dominant player in offering support for mobile broadband and broadcast technologies, making use of the Digital Dividend spectrum allocation for mobile networks could bring game-changing benefits to all parties involved. Bringing together broadband, broadcast, and cellular technologies for global consumers could contribute to the economical, social, and technological benefits of mobile devices.
The Overall Objectives of the Book
This book aims to present a survey of the broadband, broadcast, and cellular coexistence solutions that are proposed in the literature. The book addresses these coexistence problems, which could appear at different levels, e.g., physical characteristics, open access, technology-neutrality, coverage obligations (under-served or unserved remote areas), efficient use of the spectrum resources (Digital Dividend), minimization of the interference problems, socio-economic characteristics, healthcare, education, energy, etc.
Prospective audience
The prospective audience of this book will be undergraduate students, postgraduate students, and researchers who are interested in the emerging area of broadband, broadcast and cellular technologies. The book could be considered a link between academia and industry. Academia could benefit by having a general view of the existing research issues and ideas on the mentioned topics, and on the other side, the industry could benefit by applying ideas or acknowledge issues in real-world applications.
Recommended topics include, but not limited to:
� Efficient and Productive usage of the spectrum resources
– Solutions and challenges
– Socio-economic characteristics
– Impact on education, healthcare, and technology
– Open-access, technology neutrality, coverage obligations
– Mobility challenges and management
� Broadband, broadcast, and cellular technologies coexistence
– Solutions and challenges
– Interoperability aspects
– Physical characteristics
– Interferences and coexistence issues
– Quality-of service provisioning
– Cross-layer optimization
Submission Procedure
You are invited to submit on or before February 28, 2013, a 2-3 pages manuscript proposal clearly describing and explaining the topic of the proposed chapter. The proposal should include the chapter summary, table of contents, and authors’ contact information. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 30, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organisational guidelines. Full chapter are expected to be submitted by July 30, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.
Important Dates
Proposal Submission Deadline: April 1, 2013
Notification of Proposal Acceptance: May 30, 2013
Full Chapter Submission: July 30, 2013
Review Results Returned: September 30, 2013
Revised Chapter Submission: October 30, 2013
Final Acceptance Notifications: November 15, 2013
Submission of Final Chapters: December 15, 2013
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word Document) to:
Dr. Ramona Trestian
Postdoctoral Researcher
Performance Engineering Lab
School of Electronic Engineering
Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0)1 700 7425
E-mail: ramona@eeng.dcu.ie