EURASIP WCN – Special Issue on Satellite Communication Systems and Networking
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Call for papers:
Satellite Communications (SatCom) will have a crucial role in Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and in shaping the Future Internet (FI). This is mainly due to the inherent features of SatCom Networks such as global coverage, cost effectiveness for broadcasting and multicasting connectivity, capability for providing broadband interactive services in remote areas and emergency services. For fully integrating the Satellite Component in NGNs, mature and novel R&D technical challenges of crosslayer nature appear, many of them being investigated in the frame of Phase III of the Satellite Communications Network of Excellence (SatNEx III): From channel modelling for mobile/ fixed satellite systems and LEO Earth Observation systems up to Networking Protocols for reliable data exchange on a planetary level. The purpose of this Special Issue is to present high quality unpublished research papers on recent advances in the wider area of SatCom Systems and Networks by experts from industry, academia and space agencies. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Channel modelling for mobile/ fixed and hybrid communication systems, for satellite communications, navigation and Earth Observation systems.
- Radiowave propagation in new frequency bands like the Q/V band or even W band.
- Adaptivity and feedback in fixed and mobile satellite systems employing a return link.
- Next generation network-centric Fade Mitigation Techniques.
- Cross-layer Satellite Resource Allocation.
- Recent or emerging satellite standards: DVB-SX, DVB-RCS NG, DVB-SH, DVBNGH, Satellite LTE, Satellite WiMax.
- MIMO over Satellite.
- Cooperative & Cognitive SatCom
- Precoding and on Ground Beamforming in multi-user SatCom.
- Multicarrier techniques.
- Advanced MAC and random access protocols for SatCom.
- Planetary Internetworking: architecture, protocols, applications.
- SatCom Security Issues.
- Delay Tolerant networks.
- Next-generation deep-space communications at Ka and W band.
- Toward the Terabit/s satellite.
- Scalable Video Coding and variable QoS physical layer pipes in SatComs.
- The role of SatCom in Future Sensor Networks.
- Multiuser detection and advanced interference mitigation techniques for SatComs.
- Satellite Network Coding.
Submission Schedule Instructions:
7 Manuscript Due:
October 1, 2011
7 First Round of Reviews:
January 1, 2012
7 Publication Date:
April 1 2012
Guest Editors:
John D. Kanellopoulos, Wireless and Satellite Communications Group, School of Electrical Computer Engineering,
National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Street, Zografou, 15780, Greece,
Email 7 ikanell@cc.ece.ntua.gr
Bjorn Ottersten, Securityandtrust.lu, University of Luxembourg, L-1359 Luxembourg, Luxembourg,
Email 7 bjorn.ottersten@uni.lu
Sandro Scalise, Institute of Communications and Navigation, DLR (German Aerospace Center), Oberpfaffenhofen,
Germany, Email 7 Sandro.Scalise@dlr.de
Athanasios D. Panagopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, School of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Mobile Radio Communications Laboratory, Iroon Polytechniou 9, Zografou, 15780 Athens, Greece,
Email 7 thpanag@ece.ntua.gr
Paolo Burzigotti, ESTEC, European Space Agency, The Netherlands, Email 7 paolo.burzigotti@esa.int
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