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CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue: PERSONAL ENVIRONMENTS
MOBILITY IN MULTI-PROVIDER AND
MULTI-SEGMENT NETWORKS

Overview


Personal environments mobility facilitates a nomadic person to experience
transparency of devices used to connect to a network, transparency of locations
from where network and services are accessed, and transparency of network
technology, both wireline and wireless. With rapid growth in Internet services
and mobile hosts, it has become essential to address new requirements in cases
where a customer is roaming between heterogeneous multiprovider networks,
possibly within different segments (terrestrial, satellite, etc.). The customer
having different devices is relieved of the burden of reconfiguring devices or
being forced to use specific devices, or of having to change the his/her behavior
with regard to service access. To consider related adaptability and quality of
service requirements, the network must maintain the information required for
the current activity, the communications required to link to that information, the
tools necessary to manipulate the information, and the mechanisms necessary
to access the communications links. To enable the interoperability of
heterogeneous network segments and providers, we need to consider the
design based on suitable open interfaces at different levels: networks, devices
and applications.


Scope

We solicit original papers from authors that address the above issues. Topics of
interest include but are not limited to:

     Architectural issues for mobility support: All-IP, GPRS, IMT2000,
     UMTS, IN, TINA, OSGi, SIP, H.323 
     Open interfaces among and between network service providers (both
     local, long-distance, and value added) 
     Open interfaces between an information device and a network service
     provider 
     Open interfaces between an information device and emerging
     Applications 
     Applications/Experience with: JINI, Bluetooth, e-speak, Universal Plug
     and Play, Jetsend, Portal to go, Open Services Gateway 
     Virtual Home Environment (VHE) issues 
     Session mobility management, dynamic service selection 
     Service roaming and interoperability across multi-provider access
     networks 
     Service level agreement (SLA) between providers to ensure personal
     environments mobility 
     Auto-configuration, programmability for micro/macro/multi-domain
     mobility 
     Service gateways, new business models 
     End to end QoS support including QoS routing: IETF, 3GPP, 3GPP2,
     QoS Forum, WMIF 
     Security issues


Guest Editors

Fawzi Daoud GMD-Fokus: German National Research Center on Information
Technology, Germany Email: f.daoud@ieee.org 
Seshadri Mohan Comverse Network Systems, USA Email:
Seshadri.Mohan@comverse.com


Publication Schedule:

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2001 
Acceptance Notification: January 30, 2001 
Final Manuscripts: February 15, 2001 
Publication of Special Issue: 2002


Submission Guidelines

Authors should email an electronic Postscript/PDF copy of their paper to one of
the guest editors. Submissions should be limited to 20 double space pages
excluding figures graphs and illustrations.