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           IEEE Personal Communications Magazine Feature Topic on
   
                  Wireless LAN Technologies for the Future
                                      
   
                               Guest Editors
                                      
               Benny Bing (Georgia Institute of Technology),
                     Chris Heegard (Texas Instruments)
               Bob Heile (Wireless Communications Consulting)
                                      
   
                              Call for Papers
   
   Wireless LAN technologies have changed dramatically in the past 2
   years. In September 1999, the IEEE 802.11 Working Group for Wireless
   LANs finalized a 5 GHz standard (approved as IEEE 802.11a) that will
   support wireless data rates ranging from 6 to 54 Mbit/s using
   Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). In an extension to
   the 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.11 standard (approved as IEEE 802.11b on
   September 1999), Complementary Code Keying (CCK) is used to transfer
   packets at data rates of up to 11 Mbit/s. Current work attempts to
   double this rate to 22 Mbit/s using Packet Binary Convolutional Codes
   (PBCC). These new developments have significant implications in that
   the standards are now more than capable of supporting streaming audio
   and video traffic needed for mobile Internet applications.
   
   
   Topics of interest and focus
   
   The papers in this special issue will focus on the state-of-art
   wireless local networks research and development.
   Suggestions for paper topics include the following:
   
   Access Protocols
                                      
   Power Control and Management
   
   Channel Modeling/Measurement
                                      
   QoS Provisioning
   
   Error Control Coding
                                      
   RF/IC Technology
   
   Interference Control
                                      
   Security
   
   Internetworking
                                      
   Smart Antennas
   
   Mobile Computing
                                      
   Smart Spaces
   
   Mobility Management
                                      
   Standards Coexistence
   
   Modulation
                                      
   System Integration
   
   Multicarrier Systems
                                      
   Wireless Ethernet
   
   Network Performance Analysis
                                      
   Wireless Local Loop
   
   Optical Wireless Networks
                                      
   Wireless Internet Access
   
   
   Paper Submission
   
   Authors should submit an electronic version of the paper to
   bennybing@ieee.org. Preferred file formats include Microsoft Word and
   Acrobat PDF. The submission should include the name, affiliation,
   mailing address, email address, telephone and fax numbers of the
   corresponding author. The submission should be compressed if the file
   size is larger than 1 Mbyte. Author guidelines can be found at
   http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/. Select author guidelines. 
   
   
   Important Dates
   
   Manuscripts Due -- 1^st November 2001.
   Acceptance Notification -- 15^th February 2002.
   Final Revised Manuscript Due -- 15^th March 2002.
   Manuscripts to the Publisher -- April 2002.
   Publication of Feature Topic -- June 2002.