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                            Call for Papers 

                    IEEE Communications Magazine 

                           Feature Topic on 

                  Challenges in Mobile Ad-hoc Networking 

             Guest Editors: Silvia Giordano and Willie W. Lu 
                 
The focus of this Feature Topic is to identify, present and analyse the 
theoretical and implementation issues critical as well as the 
challenges to the design and deployment of mobile ad-hoc networks. 
A Mobile ad-hoc network is a system of wireless mobile nodes 
dynamically self-organising in temporary and arbitrary network 
topologies. Mobile ad hoc networks are based on self-organising, 
mobile networking infrastructures, and can operate in isolation or be 
connected to the greater Internet. 
Examples of applications of the ad hoc networking technology vary from 
military operations to disaster relief during natural catastrophes, 
Consequently, mobile ad hoc networks can have extremely different 
sizes, which can range from few nodes up to some millions. 

Contributions are solicited topics including, but not limited to: 

  Routing in ad hoc networks, 
  GPS based addressing and routing for mobile ad-hoc networks, 
  self-organising network architectures and protocols, 
  scalability issues and scalable protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks, 
  emerging technologies for mobile ad-hoc networks, 
  mobile ad-hoc networks and Internet, 
  applications of mobile ad-hoc networks, 
  MAC protocols for mobile ad-hoc networks, 
  mobile ad-hoc networks experiments and prototypes, 
  analysis and simulation of mobile networking protocols, 
  power management in mobile ad-hoc networks, 
  resource and information management for mobile ad-hoc networks, 
  security and authentication for mobile ad-hoc networks, 
  wireless and mobile local area networks. 

Submission Guidelines: 

Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, 
affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, and email 
addresses. Please submit full papers, not previously published or 
submitted for publication elsewhere to one of the guest editors 
electronically (postscript, pdf or MS Word). Please also send a 
separate email with authors' names, addresses, fax and telephone 
numbers, title and abstract of the paper. Hard copies should be sent 
only if electronic submission is not possible. 

Guest Editors: 

Willie W. Lu 
SIEMENS 
1730 North First Street 
M/S 14303 
San Jose, CA 95112, U.S.A 
wwlu@ieee.org 
FAX: +1 408 501 2403 

Silvia Giordano 
Department of Communication Systems 
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne 
CH-1015 Lausanne (Switzerland) 
silvia.giordano@epfl.ch 
FAX: +41 21 6936610 

Deadlines: 

Manuscript due: Sep. 30, 2000 
Acceptance notification: Nov. 30, 2000 
Final revised manuscripts due: Feb. 30, 2001 
Manuscripts to publisher: March 30, 2001 
Publication: June 2001 
        

Useful Links: 

Magazine home page:http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/index.html 
Author guidelines:http://pubs.comsoc.org/ci1/pub_guidelines.html 

Feature Topic CFP URLs: 
http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/~giordano/manetft.html 
http://delson.org/si/commag/june01