The Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Special Issue on  "Reliable Transport Protocols for Mobile Computing"

Guest Editors:
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 Vassilis Tsaoussidis             and            Ibrahim Matta

   Computer Science                             Computer Science
Northeastern University                        Boston  University
   Boston, MA 02115                             Boston,  MA 02215
 vassilis@ccs.neu.edu                            matta@cs.bu.edu
  Phone: 617 373 8169                         Phone:  617 358 1062


Scope:
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Computer networks are rapidly evolving towards a physically
heterogeneous but functionally integrated environment consisting of
both wired and wireless components. Furthermore, battery-powered
networked devices are becoming increasingly more common and mobile
ad-hoc and wireless-sensor networks are receiving considerable
attention.  The issue of reliable data-transport over such networks
poses many challenges, and calls for transport layer solutions that
are efficient (e.g., in terms of throughput, energy savings) and
easily deployable (e.g., in terms of minimal changes to existing
infrastructure).

This special issue seeks original contributions in the design,
analysis and experimental evaluation of reliable transport solutions
for networks with wireless links. Topics of interest include:

- Reliable transport wireless protocols
- Energy and throughput tradeoffs in battery-powered devices
- Interaction of transport layer with other layers
- Proxy-based solutions
- Impact of round-trip delays and mobility on protocol performance
- Protocol fairness

We are particularly interested in solutions that permit the transport
layer to flexibly and efficiently adjust its control strategies to the
individualized error characteristics (e.g., random errors versus burst
errors versus congestion) of the underlying physical sub-networks. In
addition, these control strategies may be energy-aware and/or
energy-efficient, in support of battery-powered devices.  We are also
seeking solutions that require minimal changes to existing
infrastructure. For example, these solutions may require changes to
the server only, leaving (possibly millions of) clients unchanged. Or,
they may require the introduction of proxies, leaving both servers and
clients unchanged.

The guest editors encourage the authors to submit their manuscripts as
an email attachment to one of the guest editors, or to provide a URL
with a PDF or postscript version of their manuscript.
Detailed instructions to authors can be found in:
www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/authors.html

Schedule:
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Submission Deadline: Dec 20, 2000
Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2001
Camera-ready papers: May 18, 2001
Publication: Nov/Dec 2001