Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Announces a Special Issue on

Ultra-Broadband Wireless Communications 
For the Future

http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/call.html

With Guest Editors


Hsiao-Hwa Chen
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
hshwhchen@mail.nsysu.edu.tw

Daoben Li
LinkAir Communications Ltd. USA
daobenli@linkair.com.cn

Qi Bi
Lucent Technologies Inc., USA
qbi@lucent.com


The 3G mobile communications will be deployed soon in many countries
around the world. The maturing of the 3G mobile communication technologies
from their concepts/proposals to commercially deliverable systems
motivates us to think about the possible architectures for the future
generations of wireless communications. Although people at this moment are
still not sure what the wireless communications beyond 3G will look like,
what can be sure however is that the systems beyond 3G (B3G) ought to
deliver services with a bandwidth much wider than what achievable in
currently ready 3G systems. It is expected that possible transmission rate
for the 4G systems should be roughly at a range of 10 to 100 Mbps,
depending on terminal mobility and service coverage. With this objective
in mind, the question is how to achieve such high data rate in an
extremely unpredictable and hostile wireless channels and what types of
system architecture are suitable to deliver the ultra-broadband services.

This special issue intends to serve as a venue to address all aspects of
various possible technologies to enable ultra-broadband wireless
communications for the future. We are seeking articles in the following
three main categories: (1) Survey articles; (2) Application/Industrial
articles; and (3) Research/Technical articles.

The guest editors invite the researchers in the related areas to submit
their work that is original, unpublished and not currently under review by
other conferences, workshops and journals. Topics of interest include but
not limited to the following:

Multiple access techniques enabling B3G broadband wireless
Spreading waveform designs for broadband CDMA
Bandwidth efficient modem and system architectures
Wireless web and mobile Internet applications
Rate matching and code assignment algorithms
Multi-carrier CDMA
Pilot-aided detection
Multi-user joint detection
Frequency-selective fast fading channels estimation
Space-time coding and antenna array techniques
Standard activities in mobile communications
Implementation and test-bed experiments
Software defined radio
Geolocation techniques
Radio resource optimization

The potential authors should submit their manuscripts as an email
attachment before the deadline as given below to Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen
(hshwchen@mail.nsysu.edu.tw) or Dr. Qi Bi (qbi@lucent.com). The
manuscripts should be in PDF or postscript format. Detail instructions to
authors can be found in:
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/authors.html

Schedule:
Submission Deadline: 1 January 2003
Notification of acceptance: 1 April 2003
Camera-ready papers: 31 May 2003
Publication of the Special Issue: September 2003