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CALL FOR PAPERS

Kluwer Academic Publishers in cooperation with ACM
announce a Special Issue of the Journal on Special Topics
in Mobile Networking and Applications (MONET) 
on MOBILE NETWORKING through IPv6 with Guest
Editors


Prof. Sy-Yen Kuo 
Department of Electrical Engineering 
National Taiwan University 
E-mail: sykuo@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw 
Web: http://lion.ee.ntu.edu.tw 
Tel: +866 2 2368-9172 
Fax: +866 2 2363-8247


Prof. Han-Chieh Chao 
Department of Electrical Engineering 
National Dong Hwa University 
Hualien, Taiwan, R.O.C., 97401 
E-mail: hcc@mail.ndhu.edu.tw 
Web: http://ws2-sun.ndhu.edu.tw/~comput/HCC 
Tel: +866 3 8662500 x 17001 
Fax: +866 3 8662509


Overview


The IPv6 community has shifted from trying to convince traditional, hard-wired
ISPs to roll out IPv6. Instead, IPv6 researchers and product developers are
responding to the support from European and Japanese wireless suppliers that
need the unlimited supply of Internet addresses offered by IPv6. IPv6 is
practically what?s needed for wireless applications because it provides true
end-to-end security and true end-to-end voice over IP. The current IP
protocol version 4 (IPv4) brings this world into the "Net-Era" stage. Following
the speedy growth of the network around the world, additional IPv4 problems
were gradually discovered. In view of this, the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) initiated the Next Generation IP, intended to replace IPv4, called "IPv6"
(Internet protocol version 6). However, a protocol that cannot support mobility
is useless in the world of the future. The IETF formed the IETF Mobile Working
Group to draw up mobility support for IPv4 (Mobile IP). In 1996 Mobile IP was
proposed as an IP enhancement to provide support for mobility in portability and
is currently trying to standardize Mobile IPv6. Mobile IP requires new network
elements and specifies a protocol for the interaction of the new components and
the hosts. In the mobile network area, the trend is to move from traditional
circuit-switched systems to packet-switched programmable networks that
integrate both voice and packet services, eventually evolving toward an all-IP
network. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in Mobile IPv6 as a
potential future mobility standard, combining a cellular system and the Internet
as a whole. The benefits of adopting a common mobility solution would include
independence of access network technologies and common solutions for fixed
and wireless networks.


Scope


The special issue seeks contributions of high quality papers addressing original
research, techniques, state-of-the-art surveys, and advanced applications in
the areas of IPv6 based wireless network and mobile computing. Areas of
interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

     IPv6 Based Mobile communications networks architecture 
     IPv6 Based Mobility management for wireless network 
     IPv6 Based Mobile computing applications 
     Performance modeling of IPv6 Based mobile computing systems 
     Design and analysis of IPv6 Based mobile computing algorithms 
     Fault tolerance for IPv6 Based mobile computing 
     Distributed databases for IPv6 Based mobile computing 
     Ad hoc wireless networks using IPv6 mobility 
     IPv6 Based Personal or Cellular communications services 
     Secure IPv6 Bases wireless communications 
     IPv6 Based Mobile QoS protocol


Publication Schedule:

Manuscript Due: December 15, 2001 
Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2002 
Final Manuscripts Due: August 15, 2001


Submission Guidelines

Authors should email an electronic Postscript or PDF copy of their paper to
Han-Chieh Chao, hcc@mail.ndhu.edu.tw, by December 15, 2001. Submissions
should be limited to 20 double space pages excluding figures graphs and
illustrations. If email submissions is impossible then six (6) copies of the paper
should be sent by the due date to:


Dr. Han-Chieh Chao 
Department of Electronic Engineering 
National Dong Hwa University 
No. 1, University Rd. Sec. 2 
Jyh-Shyue Tsuen, Show-Feng Shiang 
Hualien, Taiwan, R.O.C., 97401 
Tel: +886 3 8662500 x17001 
Fax: +886 3 8662509 

For more information visit:
http://ws2-sun.ndhu.edu.tw/~comput/HCC/MONET.htm