Dear Colleague,
please find enclosed the call for papers for the Special Issue
of the IEEE Personal Communication Magazine on
"Mobile and Wireless Internet: Architectures and Protocols"
Submission deadline: June 1st, 2001.
We are seriously concerned to limit the number of copies of this
call you might obtain, but please excuse possible duplications!
Best regards
Adam Wolisz
Call for Papers
IEEE Personal Communications Magazine
Feature Topic on
Since the last special issue on the subject of Mobile and Wireless
Internet, considerable progress has been made on research problems
within this field. To capture the essence of these challenging
problems in a timely manner a feature topic in IEEE Personal
Communications magazine has been proposed.
Mechanisms used in traditional networks such as buffer management,
routing, error control, flow and congestion control will continue to
deserve careful treatment in building the next generation Internet.
Many established research institutions are actively working on
end-to-end protocols, switching options, and feedback mechanisms to
secure the transmission of voice, video, and data in many applications
yet to come. Additional dimensions of complexity emerge across all
layers of the protocol stack as end systems connect over wireless
links and networks must provide effective mobility solutions.
For instance, the treatment of heterogeneous flows on wireless links
to assure QoS in spite of fading while fulfilling the requirement
for energy economy is a difficult question. Coupling the pace
of data on wireless links with backbone congestion control also
poses a significant challenge. An essential dispute central to this
area of research is whether to proceed with modification of the
end-system-based protocols or to introduce proxy-based solutions (e.g.
Performance Enhancing Proxies). Moreover, with deployment of an
optical core Internet using Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
(DWDM), new open questions appear concerning the convergence of
wireless access and the development of network architectures (e.g.,
based on a ìradio on the fiberî approach) that can optimally leverage
this emerging optical network.
Mobility introduces further challenges in areas never fully understood
or resolved in the past. End systems will be connected using different
technologies ranging from Bluetooth and infrared over Wireless LANs
to UMTS/IMT2000. Satellites will also play an important role in
providing Mobile Internet services. Handover among such different
technologies must reconcile varying transmission, authentication,
management and addressing capabilities across heterogeneous systems
raising challenging research problems. Alternative approaches to
support mobility and service continuity, despite discontinuity of
communication, ranging from Mobile IP to session and application layer
solutions, require careful consideration. The Mobile Internet will
offer advanced commerce opportunities necessitating the need to
investigate solutions for charging and billing that are optimized for
a mobile and wireless environment. Last but not the least, the Mobile
Internet is creating a platform for a new class of intelligent,
location dependent, and context aware applications.
Original papers are solicited on topics relevant to these and
further aspects of Mobile and Wireless Internet. To be accepted for
publication, papers should focus on mobility features, Wireless
Internet challenges, the convergence of wired and wireless segments
for Internet services as well as the evolution of cellular mobile
systems towards Internet- centric services and applications. We
are soliciting papers describing both theoretical and experimental
studies, with special emphasis on accuracy of the work and the
investigation of assumptions that have been neglected in previous
works. Prospective authors should submit an electronic version of the
manuscript (PDF of postscript), for processing by the guest editors to
Prof. Adam Wolisz, wolisz@ee.tu-berlin.de.
Guest Editors
Dr. Prathima Agrawal
Telcordia Technologies
445 South Street
Morristown, NJ 07960-6438, USA
Email: pagrawal@research.telcordia.com
Dr. Guy Omidyar
Computer Sciences Corporation
7459-A Candlewood Dr.
Hanover Maryland 21076, USA
Email: gomidyar@csc.com
Prof. Dr. Adam Wolisz
Technical University Berlin
Sekr. FT 5-2, Einsteinufer 25, 10587 Berlin, Germany
Email: wolisz@ee.tu-berlin.de
Accepted papers will be also included in Personal Communications
Interactive (PCI), the online version of the Personal Communications
Magazine.
Original papers are solicited. Topics of interest include (but are
not limited to):
- QoS support for heterogeneous IP flows on wireless links.
- Adapting Internet protocols to wireless or using proxies?
- Architecture, protocols, and parameter tuning for power
efficient operation.
- Convergence of optical backbone and wireless access.
- Mobility support in heterogeneous, IP-based networks.
- Naming and addressing by object capabilities and attributes in
Mobile Internet.
- Security issues for Mobile Internet.
- Mobile Internet services.
- Service continuity in networks with discontinuous radio
coverage or rapidly changing quality.
Submission:
Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at
http://www.comsoc.org/pci/pub_guidelines.html
Send a PDF (preferably) or postscript file to
wolisz@ee.tu-berlin.de (Prof. Adam Wolisz).
Schedule for submission:
Deadline for submission: June 1, 2001
Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2001
Camera ready version to the
publication office: September 30, 2001
Publication date: 4th Quarter 2001
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