CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on
Fourth Generation Wireless Networks and Interconnecting Standards
http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~abbas/CFP/IEEEPC-Oct01.html
Third generation wireless networks are commencing their services in
several countries soon. This generation includes several standards
of IMT-2000 such as UMTS, CDMA2000, UWC-136, and EGPRS. The new
generation wireless cellular networks although include new IP-based
and mobility supported features still will suffer from a divergence
between standards which limits the roaming of users between
heterogeneous networks and thus limits the mobility of users. The
issues of QoS such as perceived data rate, delay for message delivery,
and the cost are yet to be addressed completely in the third
generation wireless network. Interconnection of wireless cellular
networks of different standards with the wired networks and other type
of wireless networks such as satellite networks in an efficient and
cost effective way calls for a new generation of wireless networks.
This special issue will address the state-of-the-art of proposals
and research activities toward the fourth generation networks and
how these networks can provide global seamless roaming between
heterogeneous wireless and wired networks. Introduction of the
interworking units (IWU) between networks of different standards (2G,
3G, and 4G) and between satellite and terrestrial wireless networks
could be considered as the main issue in these networks. How the
fourth generation networks can change the roaming capability of the
previous generations at an affordable cost and perceived quality and
how they boost the progress toward real personal communications are
the issues to be discussed in this special issue. The special issue
looks at different technologies, different protocols, and different
network architectures that will be supported in the fourth generation
wireless networks. Applications and services such as location services
to be supported in the fourth generation wireless networks as well as
challenges in this migration are of particular interests in this
special issue.
Suggested topics for this special issue on Fourth Generation Wireless
Networks and Interconnecting Standards include but not limited to:
* 2G/3G migration to fourth generation networks
* Interoperability and interconnection between heterogeneous
networks
* Trends and developments for fourth generation wireless networks
* Network architectures and protocols for fourth generation networks
* Location aware services and applications in fourth generation
networks
* Management techniques for 4G networks (traffic, mobility,
location, QoS, etc.)
* Physical layer enhancement for fourth generation networks
* Seamless roaming between satellite and terrestrial networks
* Support of previous generation infrastructure in fourth generation
networks
* Role of Internet and its interconnection in fourth generation
wireless networks
Submission
Manuscript Due December 31, 2000
Acceptance Notification March 1, 2001
Final Manuscript Due June 1, 2001
Publication Date October 2001
Research articles are solicited for review. All submissions
should adhere to the style of IEEE Personal Communications
Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line
at http://pubs.comsoc.org/pci/pub_guidelines.html. Please send PDF
(preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to
abbas@ee.usyd.edu.au no later than December 31, 2000. Accepted papers
will also be included in Personal Communications Interactive (PCI),
the online version of Personal Communications Magazine.
Guest Editors
Abbas Jamalipour
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
University of Sydney
Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
Phone: +61 2 9351 2843
Fax: +61 2 9351 3847
Email: abbas@ee.usyd.edu.au Sirin Tekinay
Electrical and Computer Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102
Stekinay@megahertz.njit.edu
Phone: +1 973 596 8464
Fax: +1 973 596 5680
Email: tekinay@adm.njit.edu
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