Call for Papers
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"The Evolution of Wireless LANs and PANs"
Special Issue of IEEE Wireless Communications
Motivation
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The recent evolution and successful deployment of Wireless Local Area
Networks (WLANs) and Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) worldwide has
paved the way to more intense standardization and R&D activities, that
target even more sophisticated and advanced WLAN/WPAN systems.
Standardization activities within the IEEE 802.11 working group are already
underway for evolving the dominant WLAN standard in several aspects,
including security, mobility and quality of service (QoS) provision. In
addition, alternative physical and MAC layer proposals are being considered
for improving bit rates to ranges in excess of 100 Mbps. Similar activities
are taking placing within the ETSI BRAN project to further evolve the
HIPERLAN/2 standard. At the same time, the core representative of WPANs,
i.e. Bluetooth, is being further evolved by IEEE 802.15 TG1. Other task
groups within IEEE 802.15 develop specifications for high- and low-rate
WPANs, known as IEEE 802.15.3 and IEEE 802.15.4 respectively. Finally,
interworking mechanisms are being investigated for combining WLAN/WPANs and
second-/third-generation cellular networks into hybrid data networks,
capable of very high bit rates in strategic locations (hotspots). 3GPP is
one notable standardization body that currently standardizes such
interworking mechanisms.
All the above activities combined with market forecasts, which report that
WLANs and WPANs will encounter a tremendous growth in the next years,
demonstrate that WLAN and WPAN technologies will play a significant role in
the future and will severely impact our business and personal life styles.
However, several issues still need to be efficiently addressed, including
power consumption, physical and MAC layer architecture, radio resource
management, interworking, QoS, security, co-existence with other unlicensed
technologies, etc.
Scope
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In response to the above momentum, this special issue aims at providing a
timely and concise, tutorial-oriented reference of the current activities
and findings in the fields of WLANs and WPANs. In addition, it aims to
address the key technical challenges associated with these technologies. In
this context, papers are solicited reporting on representative topics, such
as:
. Security in WLANs and WPANs
. WLANs and 2G/3G interworking
. QoS in WLANs/WPANs
. Mobility issues and mobility protocols
. Support of multimedia over WLAN/WPAN
. Multihop and ad hoc architectures
. Applications in WLANs/WPANs
. Radio resource management
. WLANs/WPANs in 4G networks
. WLANs/WPANs co-existence issues
. Standardization activities
. Performance studies
All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Wireless Communications
Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at
http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/pub_guidelines.html. Electronic submissions in
Postscript, PDF or MS Word format are strongly encouraged and should be sent
to Dr. Apostolis K. Salkintzis at the address indicated below. If electronic
submission is not possible, please contact the guest editors.
Time Schedule
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Submission Deadline: April 30, 2003
Notification of Acceptance: June 30, 2003
Final Manuscript Due: August 15, 2003
Publication Date: December 2003
Guest Editors
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Dr. Apostolis K. Salkintzis
Global Telecom Solutions Sector
Motorola
32 Kifissias Ave., Maroussi
GR-15125 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-10-6854740
E-mail: a.k.salkintzis@ieee.org
Dr. Nikos Passas
Department of Informatics & Telecommunications
University of Athens
GR-15784 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-10-7275651
E-mail: passas@di.uoa.gr
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