See http://www.cs.unt.edu/~boukerch/hipc2000/

                        Call for Papers for Special Session on 
                              PERFORMANCE MODELING of 
                         MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS 

             7th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing 
                                     (HiPC'2000) 


                                      Bangalore, India 
                                  December 17-20, 2000 

                                       Co-sponsored by: 
                  IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, 
                                       ACM SIGARCH, 
                               Indian Institute of Science, (Bangalore) 
                                                 
                                                 


SESSION ORGANIZER 

      Azzedine Boukerche 
      Dept. of Computer Sciences 
      Univ. of North Texas 
      Denton, TX 76203 
      Phone: 940-565-4869 
      Fax : 940-565-2767 
      URL: www.cs.unt.edu/~boukerch 
      boukerche@cs.unt.edu

OBJECTIVES 

      Mobile cellular communication systems and wireless networking technologies are growing at an
      ever-faster rate, and this is likely to continue in the foreseable future. Wireless technology is nowadays
      being used to link portable computer equipments to corporate distributed computing and other sources
      of necessary information. Wide-area cellular systems and wireless LANs promise to make integrated
      networks a reality and provide fully distributed and ubiquitous mobile communications, thus bringing
      an end to the tyranny of geography. 

      We propose to organize a high quality, special session on Mobile and wireless networks for the HiPC'2000
      conference, (For details, see http://www.hipc.org). The objective of this session is to bring together
      technologists and researchers of international reputation to have a forum for discussions and
      presentations of their state-of-the-art work in all aspects of wireless communications and mobile
      computing, with particular emphasis on performance modeling and analysis of mobile communications
      capability. 

      Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts for a special session on Mobile
      Computing. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): 

            Performance modeling of wireless networks (PCS, Ad hoc, Satellite Networks) 
            Mobility, data, resource management, and scheduling issues in wireless and mobile networks 
            Mobile applications and tools for distributed databases 
            wireless Internet and WWW, simulation of wireless networks 
            Mobile Agents 
            Quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning 
            Wireless multimedia systems 
            Routing and location independent information access 
            Parallel Simulation of large scale wireless systems 
            Security, scalability and reliability for mobile/wireless systems 
            Architectures of mobile/wireless networks and systems 
            Traffic integration for mobile applications 
            Design and analysis of algorithms for mobile environments 
            Influence of lower layers on the design and performance of higher layers 
            Scalable Servers Wireless Mobile Computing 

                                                SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

            To submit an original research paper, send your complete manuscript (not to exceed 15
            double-spaced pages of text using 12 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages) to the Program
            Chair. References, figures, tables, etc. may be included in addition to the fifteen pages of text.
            Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be sent to hipc2000@ac.upc.es. Electronic
            submissions must be in the form of a readable postscript file containing the following header
            information in ASCII form: Title, Author name(s), Abstract, Postal address, E-mail address,
            and Telephone and Fax numbers. 
            PLEASE ALSO INDICATE THAT THIS SUBMISSION IS FOR THE SPECIAL SESSION
            MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS. 
            The header (in ASCII) should be followed by the postscript version of the complete manuscript
            (including title, author's name, affiliation, and abstract). 

            Authors should submit a correct PostScript (level 2) file of their paper to be considered and
            make sure that the PostScript file will print on a PostScript printer that uses 8.5 x 11 inch size
            (US letter size) paper. All manuscripts will be reviewed. Manuscripts must be received by April
            19, 2000. Submissions received after the due date or exceeding the length limit may not be
            considered. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by June 30, 2000. Camera-ready
            papers are due August 15, 2000. Proceedings will be available at the Conference. 

           Selected papers will be forwarded to the Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN http://www.cs.unt.edu/~boukerch/hipc2000/join-j.html) for
           a special Issue on Performance Modeling of Mobile Telecommunication Networks   


                                                    IMPORTANT DATES

            Hard copy submissions are also permitted and, like electronic submissions, must be received by
            April 19, 2000. Send six copies of the manuscript to: 


                  HiPC'2000 PROGRAM CHAIR 
                  Prof. Mateo Valero 
                  Dept. de Arquitectura de Computadores 
                  Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya 
                  c/ Jordi Girona 1-3, Modulo D6 
                  08034 Barcelona, SPAIN 
                  mateo@ac.upc.es