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GUEST EDITORIAL

ADVANCES IN NETWORK PLANNING — PART II: WIRELESS NETWORKS AND TRAFFIC UNCERTAINTY

Dominic Schupke

Oscar Gonzalez de Dios

David Tipper

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ot only technologies, but also methodologies are evolving and changing the shape of network planning. This second part of this Feature Topic focuses on the technological side concerning wireless networks and the emerging methodologies to handle traffic uncertainty. The article “Vehicular Cloud Networking: Architecture and Design Principles” by Lee et al. sets out an architecture for networking and computation in a vehicular environment. The manifold applications that are enabled find broad interest, especially in the automotive and logistics industry. We deem the design principles proposed by the authors to be a helpful basis for research and development in the area. Boiardi et al. address, in “Planning for Energy Aware Wireless Networks,” the modeling and optimization of wireless networks aiming at energy efficiency. This aim is not only of high importance for greening these networks, but can also have a direct cost impact for operators. The authors show an approach by which energy-aware network planning can help achieve this aim. The article “Flow Level Models for Capacity Planning and Management in Interference-Coupled Wireless Data Networks” by Fehske et al. addresses capacity modeling of cellular networks. The growing adoption of mobile devices as well as higher per-device bit rates demands careful planning and management of capacity to ensure service quality levels. The authors propose facilitating flow-level models exploiting the dynamicity of traffic. In “Traffic Uncertainty Models in Network Planning,” Yang and Kuipers give an overview of and a toolset for modeling traffic uncertainty, which is an important issue in network planning given that traffic demands practically always differ from previous forecasts. Besides the offline and online models, we hold the future work directions to be indicative of upcoming research in the area. Bauschert et al., in “Network Planning under Demand Uncertainty with Robust Optimization,” also deal with uncertainty, focusing on the optimization and procedural aspects involved. The proposed use of robust optimization is emerging as a formidable means to address various complex network planning problems, and the article provides a great starting point for this approach.

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BIOGRAPHIES DOMINIC SCHUPKE [M’98, SM’08] ([email protected]) is with the Airbus Group (previously EADS) in Munich, Germany, working in the Innovations unit in the area of Wireless Communication. Prior to EADS he was with NSN, Siemens, and the Institute of Communication Networks at Technische Universität München (TUM). He received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from RWTH Aachen in 1998 and his Dr.-Ing. degree from TUM in 2004. He has over 15 years’ experience in the area of communication networks, especially their design and optimization. Since April 2009 he has taught the course “Network Planning” at TUM. He is author or co-author of more than 100 journal and conference papers. His research interests include network architectures and protocols, routing, recovery methods, availability analysis, critical infrastructures, security, virtualization, network optimization, and network planning. OSCAR GONZALEZ DE DIOS is a senior researcher in Telefonica I+D, Global CTO Unit. He received his M.S. in telecommunications engineering in 2000 and his Ph.D. from the University of Valladolid in 2012. He has 12 years of experience at Telefonica in core networks in the areas of network design, network planning, techno-economic studies, multi-domain networks, multilayer networks, and control plane. He has been involved in numerous R&D European projects, (NOBEL, NOBEL II, STRONGEST, ePhoton One+, AGAVE, BONE, BANITS2, RUBENS, ONE, IDEALIST). He has co-authored more than 40 research papers in international conferences and magazines. He is currently active in the IETF CCAMP, PCE, and OPSA working groups, where he is co-author of several drafts. D AVID T IPPER is director of the Telecommunications and Networking Program and a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining the university in 1994, he was an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Clemson University, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona (Ph.D. and M.S.) and Virginia Tech (B.S.). His current research interests are survivable networks, performance analysis techniques, wireless/wired network design, and information assurance techniques. His research has been supported by grants from various government and corporate sources such as NSF, DARPA, NIST, IBM, ARO, and AT&T. Professional activities related to the proposed special issue include serving as General Chair of the 7th Design of Reliable Communication Networks Workshop, co-guest editor of two Special Issues of the Journal of Network and Systems Management: Fault Management in Communication Networks, June 1997, and Designing and Managing Optical Networks and Service Reliability, March 2005; and co-guest editor of a Special Issue of Telecommunication Systems Reliable Networks Design and Modeling in 2013. He is the co-author of the textbook The Physical Layer of Communication Systems (Artech House, 2006). Also, he is a co-editor and contributor to Information Assurance: Dependability and Security in Networked System, 2008.

IEEE Communications Magazine • February 2014