[telco-cg] CFP – Open CFP on Mobile Radio - IEEE VT Magazine (Impact Factor: 10.384)

Tue Sep 14 07:25:45 EDT 2021

Open Call for Papers on Mobile Radio, IEEE VT Magazine (Impact Factor:
10.384), http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/cfp-mobile-radio.php

The IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine (VTM) is a premier quarterly
magazine with a 2020 Impact Factor of 10.384. The magazine continuously
accepts submissions to our open tracks covering the main fields of interest
of VT society, including Mobile Radio. The Mobile Radio area within VTM
welcomes open call submissions in the seven major areas described below.
Prospective authors are welcome to submit original tutorial, technical and
research papers not published and not currently under consideration by any
other publication or conference. The seven major areas include, but are not
limited to, the following topics:

*Transmission Technology*
Physical-layer (PHY) communication systems, Modulation and detection;
Coding and decoding; Equalization; Synchronization; Channel estimation and
prediction; MIMO and massive MIMO techniques; Millimeter-wave
communications; Multiuser detection and interference cancellation;
Multicarrier transmission; Full-duplex transmission; Transceiver design;
Multiple access technologies: orthogonal and non-orthogonal signaling;
Air-link design aspects for emerging technologies; Modelling and simulation
of wireless transmission systems; Machine learning for wireless
communications; Optical wireless communications; Software defined radio
(SDR) and cognitive radio (CR); Terahertz (THz) communications; Underwater
communications; PHY security.

*Mobile Networks*
Wide, local, and personal area networking; Proximity networking; Wearable
computers and body area networks; All-IP mobile networks; Edge-based and
cloud-based support of mobile services; Ad-hoc networks; Sensor networks;
Ambient and intelligent wireless networks; Heterogeneous networking;
Fixed/mobile networks integration and convergence; Seamless mobility
management; Mobile agents; Affordable wireless infrastructure; Novel
network & switching architecture; Network planning; End-to-end QoS
provision and architectures; Routing, broadcasting, and multicasting;
Software defined network and reconfigurability; Mobile/wireless networks
modeling and simulation;Network security, authentication; Network resource
allocation; AI/ML-based networking; network slicing.

*Antennas and Propagation*
Energy-efficient antenna systems; Terahertz and optical antennas;
Large-scale antenna systems; Massive MIMO and distributed antenna systems;
Centimeter- and millimeter-wave antennas; Reconfigurable antennas; Wearable
antennas for IoT devices; Antennas for future-generation mobile radio
systems; Over-the-air testing of mobile terminal antennas; EMC issues for
wireless and mobile networks; Advanced Beamforming techniques;
Hardware-aware beamforming; Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS);
Measuring, modeling, analysis, and simulation of mobile radio channels;
Massive MIMO channels; Centimeter- and millimeter-wave channels; Indoor,
outdoor, and indoor-to-outdoor channels; Channels for inter- and
intra-vehicle communications; Highly time-varying wireless channels for
railroad communications; Air-to-ground channels for unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) communications; Aeronautical and satellite channels; Optical wireless
channels; Underwater acoustic channels; Software simulators and hardware
emulators for mobile radio channels; Measurement and channel sounding
techniques; Propagation prediction; Automatic frequency planning tools.

*Mobile Access*
Radio access in current- and future-generation mobile networks; Broadband
wireless access; Radio access techniques for ultra-reliable and low latency
communications (URLLC); Radio access techniques for IoT and MTC; Radio
access techniques for mission critical services; Radio resource management;
Self organizing networks; Interference management and interference
coordination; QoS and resource allocation; Multi-connectivity and dual
connectivity; Radio access techniques for heterogeneous wireless networks;
Beam management; Dynamic bandwidth management; Mobility control;
Handoff/handover; Scheduling; admission control; Flow control; Load
control; Link adaptation; Hybrid ARQ schemes; MAC protocols; Channel
assignment and reservation schemes; Power control; Network sharing; Radio
access network (RAN) slicing; Multi-tenancy in radio access networks;
Virtualization in radio access networks; Cloud RAN; Cognitive radio;
AI-driven air interface; Operation in unlicensed frequency bands;
Cross-layer design and optimization; Techniques for flexible spectrum
usage; Spectrum sharing; Spectrum management, usage, and regulation;
AI-based interference avoidance; Policy issues and frequency regulations.

*Green Communications and Networks*
Communication technologies and networking for energy efficiency;
Communication technologies for energy harvesting; Zero-energy devices; Tags
and RFIDs; Low-power sensor networks; RIS-based sensing; Cross-layer
optimization for green networks; Electromagnetic pollution mitigation;
Energy-aware self-organized networks; Energy-aware system design; Energy
consumption management; Energy-efficient heterogeneous networks; Green
cooperative communications; Green cloud computing; Green IoT; Green mobile
and wireless communications; Hybrid fiber-wireless networks for energy
efficient delivery of wireless signals; Wireless power transfer.

*Positioning, Navigation and Mobile Satellite Systems*
Cellular based positioning and hybrid approaches; Cooperative deep space
communications; Digital broadcasting over satellite networks; Distributed
and collaborative localization algorithms; Energy efficient positioning
systems; Indoor positioning technologies; RIS-aided localization;
Integrated positioning and communication; IP over satellite; MIMO
positioning techniques; Mobile satellite communication systems; Integration
of terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks; Satellite and terrestrial
navigation and positioning techniques; Transmission technology for
positioning; UWB and narrowband positioning systems and algorithms; Quantum
GPS; Underwater GPS.

*Mobile Services, Applications, and Systems*
Innovative services and applications; Location-based services; Case studies
and field experience; Applications enabling technologies and middleware;
Service platforms; Mobile traffic modeling and characterization; Wireless
ecommerce; Policy-based management for wireless multimedia services;
Wireless security; Privacy and authentication; Federated Learning;
Federated database.

All manuscripts should contain state-of-the-art material presented in a
tutorial or survey style, and must adhere to IEEE VTM guidelines at
http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/submission.php. Authors should submit a
PDF version of their manuscript to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/vtm-ieee

*Submission deadline*: none, continuously open for submissions.
Publication dates: March, June, September, December.

*Mobile Radio Senior Editors*
Prof. Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Prof. Y. Rosa Zheng, Lehigh University, USA
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