Call for Papers -- Feature Topic, Vol.15, No.9, 2018                       

The high-frequency (HF) communication, commonly covering the frequency range between 3 and 30MHz, is an effective and important long-distance communication approach. Using the ionosphere as a natural high altitude reflector, trans-horizon HF radio transmission is possible with advantages such as high mobility, convenient deployment, strong survivability and fast network reconfiguration. It finds widespread applications in fields including military, emergency communication, communication in remote regions and humanitarian projects.

Nevertheless, on one hand, usable HF frequencies are not easy to find and HF channels are often unstable due to the fluctuating altitude and density of the ionosphere. On the other hand, severe interference exists because of the crowded occupation of limited frequency resources, resulting in difficulties in finding desirable channels and maintaining established links. These challenges greatly restrict the efficiency of HF communication. Meanwhile, the requirements for transmitting high-speed services, serving more users and interconnecting with other kinds of networks are increasing. It is therefore vital to develop new technologies in finding usable frequencies and transiting on these frequencies in an effective way.

To cope with these challenges and meet the requirements, modern HF communications evolve towards the three major tendencies: wideband, intelligent and integrated communication. As for wideband, it aims to transmit in channels wider than the traditional narrow band (usually 3kHz) to support wideband services such as image and video. As for intelligence, it focuses on intelligent techniques, e.g., in signal processing, frequency selection, networking and anti-jamming, to improve the efficiency and reliability of HF communications. As for integrated communication, it is important to connect the existing heterogeneous HF infrastructures into a platform, to enable HF communications interconnect with other kinds of networks.

Fortunately, huge progress has been made in wireless communication (beyond the 3-30MHz frequency band) areas in recent years. The plethora of techniques developed for wireless communications can possibly be explored and extended in the HF communications area, which can help enhancing its wideband, intelligent and integration abilities. Technology developments such as carrier aggregation, cooperative communication technique and MIMO will significantly enlarge the transmission band and enhance the capacity of HF communications. Software defined networks (SDN), cognitive radio (CR) technology and machine learning are promising techniques to realize intelligent HF communications. Integration of HF with heterogeneous communication systems, e.g., satellite communications networks, VHF communications networks and radar systems, requires designing new access network architectures. Several research groups around the world have been devoting efforts to the improvement of HF radio systems and techniques, and gathering of specific knowledge in multiple domains to achieve those improvements.

To increase the exposure of these research and further development, the China Communications announces a Special Issue on 'Wideband, Intelligent and Integrated HF Communications', to be published in September 2018. Focus of this publication will be on HF communication techniques and applications.

 

 

Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018

Acceptance Notification (1st round): June 5, 2018

Minor Revision Due: June 25, 2018

Final Decision Due: July 5, 2018

Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2018

Publication Date: September 15, 2018

 

Jinlong Wang, Army engineering university of PLA, China.

Shaoqian Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China.

Jibo Wei, National University of Defense Technology, China.

1.        Ionosphere propagation modelling and prediction, usable frequencies selection, channel measurement and modelling in HF band

2.        Noise and spectrum occupancy measurement, spectrum management, coordination and planning for HF communications

3.        RF components design, e.g., wideband HF amplifiers and antennas for military vehicles and communications

4.        Advanced PHY layer techniques, e.g., modulation/demodulation, coding/decoding, channel estimation and equalization

5.        Wideband and cooperative HF communications, e.g., carrier aggregation and MIMO

6.        Emerging applications of cognitive radio and software defined radio in HF communications, such as innovative transceiver architecture and RF digitization

7.        Automatic link establishment techniques

8.        Anti-jamming and security communication techniques for HF communications

9.        Intelligent techniques in HF communications, such as big data acquisition and analytics, inference and intelligent decision-making

10.    Architectures and protocols for HF communications networking, such as core network structure, multiple access control, and distributed reception

11.    Interworking and interconnection between HF communications networks and other communication networks

12.    Application layer protocols tailored to HF transmission

 

 

This feature topic “Wideband, Intelligent and Integrated HF Communication” seeks original, UNPUBLISHED research papers reporting substantive new work in various aspects of topics above. Papers MUST clearly indicate your contributions to the topic field and properly cite related work in this field.

 

Papers should be submitted in two separate .doc files (preferred) or .pdf files: 1) Main Document (including paper title, abstract, key words, and full text); 2) Title page (including paper title, author affiliation, acknowledgement and any other information related with the authors’ identification) through the Manuscript Central. Please register or login at http://mc03.manuscriptcentral.com/chinacomm, then go to the author center and follow the instructions there. Remember to select “Wideband, Intelligent and Integrated HF Communication–September Issue, 2018” as your manuscript type when submitting; otherwise, it might be considered as a regular paper. Each submission must be accompanied by the following information:

·         an abstract of about 150 words

·         3-8 keywords

·         original photographs with high-resolution (300 dpi or greater); eps. or tif. format is preferred

·         sequentially numbered references. The basic reference format is: author name, "article name", issue name(italic）, vol, no., page, month, year. for example: Y.M Huang, "pervateture in wireless hetergeneous..",IEEE Journal on Selected Areas, vol.27, no. 5, pp 34-50, May, 2009.

·         brief biographies of authors (50-75 words)

·         contact information, including email and mailing addresses

 

Please note that each submission will normally be approximately 4500 words, with no more than 20 mathematical formulas, accomplished by up to 10 figures and/or tables.