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Special Issue Proposal Form

A Special Issue is a collection of papers on a particular theme within the scope of the journal.

1. Journal Title:
Set your Special Issue by choosing a suitable journal from journal list of SciencePG. Please enter the website
http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/journallist.aspx
to see the journal list.

2. Special Issue Title:

Set a title of your Special Issue.
Note:
(1) Please do not consider Special Issue title as a paper title.
(2) Please try to make your Special Issue title cover a wider range so as to solicit more papers in your research
field.

3. Lead Guest Editor:

Including full name, email address, affiliation
For personal information, please fulfill information below in English, and no acronyms shall be used:
First Name:
Last Name:
Email Address:
Department/Faculty:
University/Institute:
City:
Province (if any):
Country:

4. Guest Editor:
A Special Issue should include at least 10 Guest Editors, and no maximum limit.
Including full name, email address, affiliation
For personal information, please fulfill information below in English, and no acronyms shall be used:
First Name:
Last Name:
Email Address:
Department/Faculty:
University/Institute:
 City:
Province (if any):
Country:

5. Submission Deadline

The journal will set Submission Deadline according to the Duration of the Special Issue you choose.

Note: To facilitate our internal operation, we will set the date on 10th, 20th or 30th.

Duration of the Special Issue

To choose a duration for your Special Issue: 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months

Once you have chosen the duration of your Special Issue, then the Submission Deadline of your Special Issue will
be set, for example, if we receive your proposal on May 7, 2015 and accept the proposal, we will put it online 3
days later, and if you choose 3 months as the duration of your Special Issue, then the submission Deadline of your
Special Issue will be set on August 10, 2015(3 months later from the online effective date).
Please note if you choose the duration, then you should make sure that enough papers can be collected on the
duration.

6. Publication Date:

Publication Date will be 2 months later from the Submission Deadline.

Note: To facilitate our internal operation, we will set the date on 10th, 20th or 30th.

7. Description: A 150-400 word summary about your Special Issue:

The description includes 2 parts: a general introduction of your Special Issue theme, aims and scope. Please limit
your words between 150 and 400 and try to make it attractive to authors.

8. If you have a sequence request of papers published in your Special Issue.

The Rolling submission will be more effective. It means that the paper can be submitted and published one by
one once the paper has been accepted. Please choose a method you prefer, if you choose yes, it means that you
accept Rolling submission and have no sequence request for paper publication; if you choose no, it means that
you have sequence request for paper publication. Once you have made your choice, no modification is allowed.

Yes (Rolling submission) No (Sequence needed)

9. If possible, provide a provisional paper list of your Special Issue from potential authors, including authors’
names, and article titles. (Note: this is not required at proposal stage if not available).

If you don’t have papers of potential authors, please fill in “not for now”;
If you already have some potential authors, please fill in as follows:
Author’s Name; Title of Paper;
Author’s Name; Title of Paper;
Author’s Name; Title of Paper;

Note: Please complete the Special Issue form referring to the Proposal Form Template.
 Proposal Form Template

1. Journal Name:
International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

2. Special Issue Title:

Mobile Internet

3. Lead Guest Editor:

Including full name, email address, affiliation
For personal information, please fulfill information below in English, and no acronyms shall be used:
First Name: X
Last Name: YZ
Email address: xxx.yyy.zzz@gmail.com
Department/Faculty: College of Foreign Languages
University/Institute: Harvard University
City: Cambridge
Province (if any):Massachusetts
Country: USA

4. Guest Editor:
The information here needed is the same as point 3

5. Submission Deadline:
Duration of the Special Issue
To choose a duration for your Special Issue: 3 months 6 months 9 months 12 months

6. Publication Date:

7. Description: A 150-400 word summary about your Special Issue

Internet has visited dramatical change of our society in many fields, including politics, business, culture,
socializing way and our lifestyle. In recent years, the convergence of Mobile and Internet technologies in
mobile devices such as 3G/4G-LTE/WiFi networks and satellite networks has led to many burgeoning Mobile
and Internet technologies (MIT), including protocols, services, systems, security and applications. This special
issue is to improve the dissemination of advanced research in the area of Mobile Internet that can fulfill the
anytime-anywhere access dream. Original research papers are solicited in any aspect of innovative mobile
Internet technology.

Aims and Scope:

 Mobile Internet devices
 The evolution from 2G communication to 4G/5G communication
 Mobile broadband services
  WiFi wireless broadband services
 Mobile Internet benefits and risks
 The development of WiFi
 Internet and mobile computing
 The growing trend of Mobile Internet

8. If you have a sequence request of papers published in your Special Issue.

Yes (Rolling submission) No (Sequence needed)

9. If possible, provide a provisional paper list of your special issue from potential authors, including authors’
names, and article titles. (Note: this is not required at proposal stage if not available).