CALL FOR PAPERS

                             Wiley InterScience
                                announces a

                              Special Issue of
                 Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
                                     on

        MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKING: RESEARCH, TRENDS AND APPLICATIONS

                             with Guest Editors



   Prof. Stefano Basagni
   Center for Advanced Telecommunications Systems and Services (CATSS)
   Department of Computer Science
   The University of Texas at Dallas
   basagni@utdallas.edu Dr. Sung-Ju Lee
   Internet and Mobile Systems Laboratories
   Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
   sjlee@hpl.hp.com



    OVERVIEW:

     Tertio millennio ineunte (at the dawn of the third millennium) it
     is more and more clear that wireless communications will be the
     natural form of communication among people, living beings and
     things. Virtually every appliance will be equipped with a small,
     cheap, lightweight wireless interface and the possibility of
     communicating anytime, from anywhere, to anybody/thing, in the
     world and beyond, is imminent.

     At the focal point between wireless communications and mobile
     computing, mobile ad hoc networking is rising as the technology
     that fits better in scenarios where fixed infrastructure, such as
     the one of cellular wireless networks, is neither available nor a
     viable choice. Among the major challenges imposed by the ad hoc
     architecture, are the mobility of possibly all network nodes and
     unpredictable and continuous change in the network topology. In
     addition, because of the limited radio propagation range, routes
     are mostly multihop. These characteristics in combination with
     bandwidth, energy and memory constraints make ad hoc networking
     research interesting and challenging.

    SCOPE:

     With this special issue we aim at bringing together
     state-of-the-art contributions that range from papers that report
     novel research to papers that describe commercial and industrial
     experiences. We are seeking for papers that are original,
     unpublished, and not currently under review by another conference,
     workshop, or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not
     limited to the following:
     * Implementation and testbed experiments
     * Industrial state of the art
     * Routing, multicasting and broadcasting protocols
     * TCP and reliable multicast
     * Security and Privacy
     * Energy efficient protocols
     * Protocol analysis, evaluation and optimization
     * Bluetooth and home networking
     * Medium access control
     * Applications
     * Quality of service
     * Sensor networks
     * Pervasive computing
     * Interoperation with wired/cellular networks
     * Clustering
     * Network architecture and management
     * Congestion, admission and flow control


    PUBLICATION SCHEDULE:

     * MANUSCRIPT DUE: August 31, 2001
     * ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: December 15, 2001
     * FINAL MANUSCRIPT DUE: January 15, 2002
     * PUBLICATION DATE: Second quarter 2002



    SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

     Authors should email an electronic (Postscript or PDF) copy of
     their paper to Dr. Sung-Ju Lee, sjlee@hpl.hp.com, by August 31,
     2001. Submissions should be limited to 20 double space pages
     excluding figures, graphs and illustrations. If email submission is
     impossible then six (6) copies of the paper (double-sided if
     possible) should be sent by the due date to:

     Dr. Sung-Ju Lee
     Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
     1501 Page Mill Road, Mailstop 1U-17
     Palo Alto, CA 94304-1126
     Tel. (650)-857-3894