CALL FOR PAPERS 

          IEICE Special Issue on Mobile Multimedia Communications 

The IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication 
Engineering) Transactions on Communications announces a forthcoming 
special issue on Mobile Multimedia Communications to be published in 
April 2001. 

Recently, intensive efforts are now underway to promote practical use 
of mobile multimedia communications technologies; Progress has been 
achieved in the international standardization activities such as 
IMT-2000, IrDA, MPEG-4, etc. Many test bed experiments have been 
carried out as mobile communications systems such as wireless ATM, 
wireless Internet, etc. Also, various research and developments are 
widely in progress in the field of application and terminal 
technologies such as mobile contents, data broadcasting, PDA 
terminals, information appliance, etc., and of networking technologies 
such as mobile IP, quality of service, mobile agent, etc. 

The purpose of this special issue is to present the recent advance of 
mobile multimedia communications technologies including mobile 
applications, terminals, network, broadcasting, etc., and to promote 
future progress of research, development, and new applications of 
mobile multimedia communications. We are calling for papers from 
engineers in Japan and abroad. Submission of a paper presented at 
MoMuC 2000, to be held in Tokyo during October 23rd to 26th, 2000, is 
encouraged, but presentation of the paper at the workshop is not a 
requirement for its inclusion in this special issue. Conversely, 
presentation at the conference will not guarantee acceptance in the 
special issue. 

1. Scope 
Suggested topics include but are not limited to the following: 

- Mobile multimedia applications and terminals 
   Mobile computing, mobile contents, architecture for multimedia 
   mobile terminals, mobile IP, personal multimedia applications, 
   audiovisual compressions for mobile applications, security 

- Mobile multimedia systems and implementations 
   System architecture for mobile multimedia (including fast LAN), 
   quality of service for mobile multimedia communications, agent 
   systems, multimedia satellite, implementation techniques of advanced 
   wireless systems for mobile multimedia, data integration for mobile 
   communications, multimedia location service 

- Network for Mobile Multimedia 
   Broadband/fast wireless network (including wireless ATM), IP 
   adaptive wireless access method, distributed networking, mobile 
   multimedia advanced wireless techniques (including IrDA), multimedia 
   data integrated service network for mobile communications 

2. Submission Instructions 
Submitted papers will be reviewed by referees in accordance with the 
regular rules of the Transactions Editorial Committee. The standard 
number of pages is 8 for a paper and 2 for a letter. Refer to 
`Information for Authors'' at the following web site for more 
details; http://www.ieice.or.jp/eng/shiori/mokuji.html. Prospective 
authors are requested to send four copies of their manuscripts to the 
address below. `Special Issue on Mobile Multimedia Communications'' 
should be placed on top of the first page. 

Hirohisa Jozawa 
NTT Department III (R&D Strategy Department) 
Teishin Building 8F, 2-3-1, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8116 Japan 
Tel: +81 3 5205 5379, Fax: +81 3 5205 5369 
E-mail: h.jozawa@hco.ntt.co.jp 

3. Paper Submission Deadline 
Papers must be received by August 25, 2000. 
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4. Special Issue Editorial Committee 
Editor-in-Chief 
Takeshi Hattori (Sophia University) 

Secretary 
Hirohisa Jozawa (NTT), Takehiko Kobayashi (YRP), Hisashi Miyamori (CRL) 

Guest Editors 
Hirotaka Nakano (NTT DoCoMo), Shiro Sakata (NEC), Tadanori Mizuno 
(Shizuoka Univ), Kiyoharu Aizawa (Univ of Tokyo), Ki-ichi Matsuda 
(Fujitsu Lab), Minoru Etoh (Matsushita), Hiroshi Watanabe (NTT), 
Shuuichi Matsumoto (KDD Lab), Yoshihiko Akaiwa (Kyushu Univ), Shozo 
Komaki (Osaka Univ), Mitsuji Matsumoto (Waseda University), Mitsuo 
Iwama (Sharp), Kouichi Honma (Matsushita), Hiroshi Nakamura (NTT 
DoCoMo), Fumiyuki Adachi (Touhoku Univ), Hiroyuki Morikawa (Univ of 
Tokyo), Takuro Satoh (Niigata Univ) 

* Please note that if accepted for publication, all authors, including 
   authors of invited papers, should pay for the page charges covering 
   partial cost of publication. Authors will receive 100 copies of the 
   reprint.