CFP : Special Issue of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing on Reconfigurable Wireless Communications Systems

CFP : Special Issue of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing on Reconfigurable Wireless Communications Systems
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See: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/ WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Special Issue Announcement Reconfigurable Wireless Communication Systems Guest Editors Fred Daneshgaran, Professor, California State University, Los Angeles, USA fdanesh@calstatela.edu Josef Noll, R&D Fellow - Wireless Mobility, Telenor AS, Norway Josef.noll@telenor.com The goal of the 4G wireless systems is to provide broadband access to the mobile users: "Easier access to faster information services at any place". A goal that follows the introduction of Multimedia services by IMT-2000 systems as e.g. UMTS, cdma2000. The future may provide truly broadband wireless access through such technologies as MBS operating in the 40GHz and 60GHz bands, interactive broadcast pseudo satellites and wireless access to LAN networks. Advanced antenna configurations and space-time processing leading to MIMO systems, and the use of ever increasing complex signal processing algorithms will squeeze evermore data through a given window of frequency. For mobility, seamless interoperability is the order of the day, and the wireless devices must be able to engage different systems using such diverse technologies as LMDS and MMDS, DVB, UMTS, IEEE802.11, Hiperlan, Bluetooth, xDSL and others. Within this context, Software Radio (SR) promises to provide the flexibility and the interoperability capability needed for the future reconfigurable communication systems. The term SR is used to encompass a wide range of agile, multimode, programmable radio systems that can operate over a wide frequency band, and be able to ``speak'' the language of the different protocols. The evolution in the semiconductor industry leading to constant increase in the clock speeds and increase in device density, and the advent of reconfigurable hardware have paved the way to the creation of SR platforms. SR uses a mix of hardware entities for the implementation of radio transceiver functions capable of commanding the RF spectrum. Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished work within the scope of the special issue encompassing (but not limited to) the following areas: - Software defined radio architectures for handsets and as a part of base station units for smooth migration from 2G to 3G and beyond. - Smart antennas, space-time processing and efficient digital signal processing algorithms. - Reconfigurable hardware-software architectures that will become part of many of the future wireless communication systems due to rapid advances in this area. - Recent Advances in Integrated Circuits and reconfigurable hardware platforms enabling SR Technology for future generation standards, both from a power consumption and computational capacity perspectives. - Software download, resident compilers and reconfiguration of terminals from end user, operator, or service provider. - Regulatory issues and paradigms allowing world-wide terminal reconfigurability. The guest editors encourage the authors to submit their manuscripts as an email attachment to one of the guest editors, providing full contact details of all authors and, in particular, highlighting the reference author of the paper. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in: http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/authors.html Schedule: Submission Deadline: May 1, 2002 Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2002 Camera-ready papers: October 31, 2002 Publication: January 2003

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WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Special Issue Announcement
Reconfigurable Wireless Communication Systems


Guest Editors

Fred Daneshgaran, Professor, California State University, Los
Angeles, USA
fdanesh@calstatela.edu

Josef Noll, R&D Fellow - Wireless Mobility, Telenor AS, Norway
Josef.noll@telenor.com


The goal  of the 4G  wireless systems is to  provide broadband access  to the
mobile users: "Easier access to faster  information services at any place". A
goal that follows the introduction of Multimedia services by IMT-2000 systems
as  e.g. UMTS,  cdma2000. The  future  may provide  truly broadband  wireless
access through  such technologies  as MBS  operating in  the 40GHz  and 60GHz
bands, interactive  broadcast pseudo  satellites and  wireless access  to LAN
networks. Advanced  antenna configurations and space-time  processing leading
to MIMO  systems, and the  use of  ever increasing complex  signal processing
algorithms will  squeeze evermore data  through a given window  of frequency.
For mobility,  seamless interoperability  is the  order of  the day,  and the
wireless devices must be able to  engage different systems using such diverse
technologies as  LMDS and MMDS,  DVB, UMTS, IEEE802.11,  Hiperlan, Bluetooth,
xDSL and others. Within this context, Software Radio (SR) promises to provide
the flexibility  and the  interoperability capability  needed for  the future
reconfigurable communication systems. The term SR is used to encompass a wide
range of agile, multimode, programmable radio systems that can operate over a
wide frequency band,  and be able to ``speak'' the  language of the different
protocols. The  evolution in the  semiconductor industry leading  to constant
increase in the  clock speeds and increase in device  density, and the advent
of  reconfigurable  hardware  have  paved  the way  to  the  creation  of  SR
platforms. SR uses a mix of hardware entities for the implementation of radio
transceiver functions capable of commanding the RF spectrum.

Authors are invited to submit original previously unpublished work within the
scope of  the special issue encompassing  (but not limited to)  the following
areas:

- Software  defined radio architectures  for handsets and  as a part  of base
station units for smooth migration from 2G to 3G and beyond.

-  Smart  antennas,  space-time   processing  and  efficient  digital  signal
processing algorithms.

-  Reconfigurable hardware-software  architectures that  will become  part of
many of  the future wireless communication  systems due to rapid  advances in
this area.

-  Recent  Advances  in   Integrated  Circuits  and  reconfigurable  hardware
platforms enabling SR Technology for future generation standards, both from a
power consumption and computational capacity perspectives.

- Software download, resident compilers and reconfiguration of terminals from
end user, operator, or service provider.

-   Regulatory   issues   and    paradigms   allowing   world-wide   terminal
reconfigurability.

The guest  editors encourage the  authors to  submit their manuscripts  as an
email attachment to one of the  guest editors, providing full contact details
of all authors  and, in particular, highlighting the reference  author of the
paper.

Detailed instructions to authors can be found in:
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/authors.html


Schedule:

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2002
Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2002
Camera-ready papers: October 31, 2002
Publication: January 2003