SPECIAL ISSUE ON MISSION CRITICAL NETWOR 2009

Mission-Critical Networking (MCN) refers to networking for application domains where life or  livelihood  may  be  at  risk. Typical application  domains  for  MCN  include  critical infrastructure protection  and  operation,  emergency  and  crisis  intervention,  healthcare  services, and military operations. Such networking is essential for safety, security and economic vitality in our complex world characterized by uncertainty, heterogeneity, emergent behaviors, and the need for reliable  and  timely  response. MCN should  comprise  networking  technology,  infrastructures and services that may alleviate the risk and directly enable and enhance connectivity for mission- critical information  exchange  among  diverse,  widely-dispersed,  mobile  users. A primary challenge to MCN is to deploy and dynamically configure and evolve communication networks that are  dependable,  autonomic,  secure,  adaptive,  and  rapidly  deployable  to  support  critical missions and  their  priorities. In order  to  operate  effectively,  the  deployed  networks  should support services  such  as  location  determination  of  both  authorized  and  unauthorized  entities, quality-of-service aware audio and video communication, emergency calling and alerting, and in- situ and  remote  sensing  and  control  in  a  secure  and  dependable  manner. In addition,  efficient operation of  such  networks  that  typically  include  numerous  resource-constrained  components may  benefit   from   cross-layer   optimization,   cognition,   resource   engineering,   on-demand federation, and service-oriented architecture. Also important is the integration of MCN with the Internet to reduce cost of deployment and maintenance and to enhance reachability and ubiquity. This special  issue  of  the  Journal  on  Selected  Areas  in  Communications  solicits  high  quality technical contributions in mission-critical networking including, but not limited to: • Architecture and design of MCN and next- generation emergency calling and alerting • Rapidly and dynamically deployable services and networks • Evolving “elastic” networking with decentralized and peer-to-peer resource management and allocation • Federation and policy management for heterogeneous networks and protocols •Trust, security, dependability, privacy, QoS and performance awareness and management for MCN • Sensor and actuator networks for critical information gathering, tracking and real-time control • MCN traffic and mobility analysis • Formal methodology for cognitive, autonomic, and context-aware protocols and network management • Spectrum management and access • Testbeds, benchmarks, performance and experimental studies Paper Submission Manuscripts should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review. Argument justifying  contribution  specific  to  the  unique  features  of  MCN  must  be provided. Prospective authors should follow the IEEE JSAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors at http://www.jsac.ucsd.edu/Guidelines/info.html. Authors should submit a PDF  version  of  their  complete  manuscript  to  mcn-jsac@criticalnet.org  according  to  the following timetable: Manuscript submission: April 1, 2009                First review notification: August 1, 2009 Revised manuscript due: October 1, 2009          Acceptance notification:  November 1, 2009 Final manuscript due: January 2, 2010         Publication: June, 2010 Guest Editors -   Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virginia Tech, USA            - Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland -   Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas, USA         - Moustafa Youssef, Nile University, Egypt -   Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA  - Mario Gerla, UCLA, USA -   David Du, National Science Foundation and University of Minnesota, USA This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP