Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 
 
Special issue on Performance Evaluation Of Wireless Networks 
 
Guest editors 

Jelena Misic
Department of Computer Science 
Hong Kong University of Science 
and Technology 
Hong Kong, China 
Phone: +852 2358 8767 
Fax: +852 2358 1477 
email: jmisic@cs.ust.hk 

Li-Chun Wang
National Chiao Tung University 
Department of Communication 
Engineering 
Hsinchu, Taiwan 
Tel: +886 3 571-2121 ext 54511 
Fax: +886 3 571-0116 
email: lichun@cc.nctu.edu.tw 

Nada Golmie 
Advanced Networking 
Technologies Division 
National Institute of Standards 
and Technology 
Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA 
Phone: (301) 975-4190 
Fax: (301) 590-0932 
email: nada.golmie@nist.gov 
 
 
Overview 

The traffic demands for mobile and wireless 
networks are steadily increasing. They are 
expected to carry various traffic types such as 
voice, video, and data. They use different 
communication technologies and different medium 
access control protocols. At the same time, their 
scope ranges from wide area cellular networks to 
local area, ad-hoc, and personal area networks. In 
each of these environments, mobile and wireless 
networks have to cope with the problems of users' 
mobility, traffic types and users' QOS 
requirements. Determining the performance of 
these networks under variable user populations, 
bursty traffic types, user mobility, in the presence 
of interference and for given battery power 
constraints, is a challenging task. Also, the 
problem of defining, implementing, and evaluating 
QoS architectures over different wireless 
networking technologies is far from being well 
understood. This journal issue plans to address 
performance and QoS issues both in isolated 
networking environments, such as cellular 
networks, wireless LANs, ad-hoc networks, and 
personal area networks, and in heterogeneous 
environments formed by interconnecting networks 
of different types. 
 
Scope 

This special issue will focus on performance 
evaluation and QoS support in wireless networks. 
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: 
  Wireless medium access control protocols 
  Resource management and bandwidth assignment 
  Dynamic channel assignment policies 
  Quality of Service architectures in mobile systems 
  Admission Control in mobile networks 
  Performance evaluation of wireless Internet 
  Mobile IP 
  Performance of mobility management protocols 
  Performance evaluation of mobile ad-hoc networks 
  Performance and QoS issues in Bluetooth networks 
  Coexistence and interference of networks using 
    different standards (e.g., Bluetooth and IEEE 
    802.11x) 
  Performance evaluation of heterogeneous wireless 
    networks 
  Traffic modeling in wireless networks 
 

Publication schedule 

Manuscripts due:                      January 15, 2003 
Acceptance notification:              June 1, 2003 
Final manuscripts due:                July 31, 2003 
Publication Date:                     Nov/Dec 2003 
 
 
Submission guidelines 

Authors should e-mail the electronic copy of the 
paper in Acrobat PDF format to *all* the Guest 
Editors by January 15, 2003. Submissions should 
be limited to 20 double space pages, excluding 
figures, graphs, and illustrations, with body text 
should be typeset in at least 10-point size 
typeface, preferably Times Roman or Computer 
Modern. The instructions regarding final 
submission of accepted papers will accompany 
the letters of acceptance.