Special Section: Call for Papers
Announcing a Special Section in IEEE Access:
Recent Advances in Socially-aware Mobile Networking
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2016
IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Socially-aware Mobile Networking.
Mobile data traffic has been growing exponentially over the past few years. A report from Cisco shows
that the mobile data traffic in 2014 grew 69 percent and was nearly 30 times the size of the entire global
Internet in 2000. One of the primary contributors to the explosive mobile traffic growth is the rapid
proliferation of mobile social applications running on multimedia mobile devices (particularly
smartphones), and these sharp increases in mobile traffic (particularly from mobile social applications) are
projected to continue in the foreseeable future. To meet the rapidly growing demand, regulatory agencies
around the world (e.g., FCC, Ofcom and ETSI) are actively working on policies and regulations for
dynamic spectrum access that are mutually beneficial to the cognitive radio devices and the licensed
spectrum users of the under-utilized spectrum. As mobile networks by and large are designed and
deployed to meet people’s social needs, people’s behaviors and interactions in the social domain will
shape their ways to access mobile services. Therefore, there is an urgent need to integrate social
elements into the design of mobile networks.
Socially-aware mobile networks have emerged as a promising direction for future mobile networks.
Socially-aware mobile network designs can improve shared spectrum access, cooperative spectrum
sensing and device-to-device (D2D) communications, and have potential to achieve substantial gains in
spectral efficiency and lead to significant increases in network capacity. In spite of the potential benefits of
socially-aware mobile networking, many technical challenges still have to be addressed. For example,
mobile users need to trust others to carry out effective cooperation, and a natural question to ask is that
“how to leverage human social trust to enhance distributed spectrum access?” Moreover, since mobile
users need to communicate potentially sensitive information (such as location) to neighbors and third
party (like in D2D sharing), privacy and security protection are also important components in the design of
socially-aware mobile networks.
Inspired by the aforementioned attractive features and potential advantages of socially-aware mobile
networks, socially-aware mobile networking has recently garnered much attention, but is still not well
understood, and therefore requires more research efforts from both the academia and industry. This
special issue will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical
challenges and recent results related to socially-aware mobile networking, so as to enrich the evolution of
future mobile networks.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
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Socially-aware dynamic spectrum access
Socially-aware cooperative spectrum sensing
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Socially-aware D2D communications
Socially-aware information dissemination in mobile networks
Cooperative behavioral modeling in socially-aware mobile networks
Socially-aware protocols for mobile networks
Socially-aware power and interference management
Socially-aware resource allocation and optimization for mobile networks
Crowdsourcing in mobile networks
Trust and reputations in mobile networks
Cognitive and cooperative mobile networks
Privacy and security for socially-aware mobile networks
Mobile social sensing and learning
Prediction in mobile social networks
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Editor: Mugen Peng, Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, China
Guest Editors:
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Lei Yang, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Junshan Zhang, Arizona State University, USA
Tao Chen, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Ulrico Celentano, University of Oulu, Finland
Juha Röning, University of Oulu, Finland
Natalia Ermolova, Aalto University, Finland
Olav Tirkkonen, Aalto University, Finland
IEEE Access Editor in Chief: Michael Pecht, Professor and Director, CALCE, University of Maryland
Paper submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-access
For information regarding IEEE Access including its publication policy and fees, please visit the website
http://www.ieee.org/ieee-access
For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: Bora M. Onat, Managing Editor, IEEE Access
(Phone: (732) 562-6036, ieeeaccess@ieee.org)