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Reputation Systems for Self-Organized Networks
Self-organized communication systems such as mobile ad-hoc, Internet-based peer-to-peer, and wireless mesh networks are typically organized according to the peer-to-peer organization principle. Participants in the system are equals in that they have equivalent capabilities and responsibilities. One of the major issues in such self-organized communication systems is that of cooperation. Typically, users are concerned primarily about their own benefits and thus cooperation and fairness cannot be guaranteed...
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IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Special Issue on Potentials and Limits of Cooperation in Wireless Communications: Toward Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless

See Call for Papers below.

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Special Issue on

Potentials and Limits of Cooperation in Wireless Communications:

Toward Fourth Generation (4G) Wireless

"One’s own group is the center of everything"

W.G. Sumner

Call for Papers

Publication Date: March 2008

The IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, through the publication of this special issue of IEEE Technology & Society Magazine, invites researchers in mobile engineering, mobile human-computer interaction, social science and other related disciplines to submit papers on cooperation as a sociotechnological phenomenon, which can strengthen the success and social robustness of fourth generation (4G) wireless. Within the rising communication paradigm of 4G, novel types of “cooperation” emerge – instead of conventional selfish point-to-point cellular communications, 4G will support cooperative communication strategies by establishing ad-hoc connectivity among spatially proximate users. While initial technical research efforts have started and demonstrated a potential boost in terms of quality of service delivery, the social dimension of cooperation as a foundation of 4G is still largely unexplored. This special issue will investigate the underlying crucial intertwining between technologically performed cooperation and user driven social cooperation in the realm of 4G.

Original research papers on the following topics are sought:

Trust, privacy and accountability in cooperative networks
Social-centric wireless networks vs. ego-centric wireless networks
Selective attributes and methods for the establishment of cooperation
Technical challenges and opportunities of cooperative communications
To cooperate or to compete: in-group favouritism and out-group isolation
Mobile cooperational networks: the role of the user and the tasks of the network
Cooperative communication strategies to lower radiation and battery consumption levels
Transparent, on-demand and pop-up cooperation – new challenges and potentials for the user

IEEE Technology & Society Magazine is a quarterly journal published by the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology. Peer-reviewed articles published in IEEE Technology and Society Magazine are available in Xplore, the IEEE on-line library.

For author guidelines please see http://ieeessit.org/technology_and_society/authors.asp.

To submit papers, please send a pdf document to:sf@kom.aau.dk

Deadlines

Submissions due:
February 1, 2007

Expected reply:
June 1, 2007

Revisions as needed due:
October 1, 2007

Guest Editors

Simone Frattasi

Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF)

Aalborg University, Denmark

sf@kom.aau.dk

Antje Gimmler

Dept. of Sociology, Social Work and Organization

Aalborg University, Denmark

gimmler@socsci.aau.dk