[CFP] Elsevier FGCS Journal [IF=2.786] -- SI on "Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges"

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Please find below a call for papers for Special Issue in Elsevier Future
Generation Computer Systems Journal.

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*CALL FOR PAPERSSpecial Issue in Elsevier Future Generation Computer
Systems Journal Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and
Challenges*

*Submission Deadline:* 30th December, 2015

Future Generation Computer Systems invites manuscript submissions in the
area of "Mobile Edge Computing: Opportunities, Solutions, and Challenges"


*AIM and SCOPE:*
The cloud computing facilitates users with several opportunities by
providing wide range of services and virtually unlimited available
resources. The large pool of resources and services has enabled the
emergence of several new applications, such as virtual reality, smart
grids, and smart building control. However, the euphoria transforms into a
problem for delay-sensitive applications, which need to meet the delay
requirements. The problem becomes clearer and more intense as several smart
devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life as in case of
smart cities or Internet of Things. Current cloud computing paradigm is
unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and
mobility support. To address the problem, researchers have coined a term of
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) that was introduced to bring the cloud services
and resources closer to the user proximity by leveraging the available
resources in the edge networks.
MEC aims to enable the billions of connected mobile devices to execute the
real-time compute-intensive applications directly at the network edge. The
distinguishing features of MEC are its closeness to end-users, mobility
support, and dense geographical deployment of the MEC servers. Despite the
several advantages, realizing the vision of MEC is challenging task because
of the administrative policies and security concerns. There is a need to
investigate the key requirements and potential opportunities for enabling
the vision of MEC. In this special issue, we are seeking new and
unpublished work in the domain of MEC. More specifically, this special
issue will focus on recent developments in MECs.

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

·    Identification of incentives for MEC service providers
·    MEC architecture: peculiar features and evolution
·    User transparent application execution frameworks for MEC
·    Real-time communication interfaces and protocols for enabling the
communication between MEC client and MEC server, between MEC servers,
between MEC server and the cloud server
·    Smart MEC scheduler to improve resource scheduling that enhances the
reliability and scalability
·    Resource monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism
·    MEC resources allocation and management
·    Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction
·    MEC functionalities virtualization
·    Data storage, processing, and management at MEC platform
·    Simulation models for MEC
·    Performance evaluation of MEC simulators and platforms
·    Deployment strategies of MEC Servers
·    Admission control for MEC
·    Pricing and billing models for MEC
·    Lightweight authentication mechanisms that are also feasible to run on
the resource constrained devices such as smart sensors
·    Open issues, challenges and future perspective for MEC




*Important Dates:*Manuscript Due: 30th December 2015
Acceptance notification: 30th April 2016
Revised paper due: 30th June 2016
Final manuscript due: 30 August 2016
Expected Publication of the Special Issue: 25 Dec 2016




*Submission Guidelines:*All submissions have to be prepared according to
the Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at
http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/. Authors should select “SI:MECS”, from the
“Choose Article Type” pull-down menu during the submission process. All
contributions must not have been previously published or be under
consideration for publication elsewhere. A submission based on one or more
papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major value-added extensions
over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are
requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously
published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made
in the journal version.



*Guest Editors of the Special Issue:*
    Ejaz Ahmed, Lead Guest Editor
    University of Malaya,
    Malaysia
    [email protected]

    Mubashir Husain Rehmani
    COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,
    Pakistan
    [email protected]

Kind Regards,



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Mubashir Husain Rehmani
Editor, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
Associate Editor, IEEE Communications Magazine
Associate Editor, IEEE *Access*
Associate Editor, Elsevier CAEE and JNCA Journals
Associate Editor, AHSWN Journal and JCN Journal
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan
Tel: +92-333-3052764
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