Call for Papers

                IEEE Wireless Communications Special Issues

       4G Mobile Communications - Towards Open Wireless Architecture

   The number of subscribers for mobile communications has increased much
   faster  than  predicted,  particularly  for  terrestrial  use, and the
   majority of traffic is changing from speech-oriented communications to
   multimedia communications. It is generally expected that the number of
   portable  handsets  will  exceed  the  number  of PCs connected to the
   Internet.  The step towards 4G or 3G beyond has been taking to support
   advanced and wideband multimedia services. The interworking between 4G
   and  other access systems in terms of horizontal and vertical handover
   and  seamless  services  with  service negotiation including mobility,
   security  and  QoS  will  be  a  key  requirement. Therefore, the most
   important  issue  in  developing  future  4G  mobile  systems  is  the
   architecture  based  on  the converged broadband wireless platform and
   targeted  for open wireless infrastructure. This special issue is very
   timely  and  valuable  for  those  involved  in  the  research of next
   generation  mobile  communications.  Contributions are solicited in 4G
   mobile  research  and  applied  areas  with  focus on architecture and
   models. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: 4G open
   system architecture
     * 4G open services and application architecture
     * 4G open radio access network architecture
     * 4G radio software and hardware design architecture
     * 4G network protocols and signalling
     * 4G inter-operability and co-existence model
     * 4G spectrum sharing and dynamic bandwidth allocation
     * 4G network management model
     * 4G All-IP architecture
     * 4G MIMO architecture
     * 4G performance analysis model
     * 4G radio network deployment concepts
     * 4G service provisioning architecture

   Original,  unpublished  contributions  and  invited  articles  will be
   considered  for  this  issue.  Papers should be submitted to Professor
   Shen  in electronic version (ps or pdf). Authors are also requested to
   submit  a  separate  cover  letter via email, which contains the paper
   title,  the affiliations, and a 200-word abstract. Submissions must be
   made according to the following timetable:

   Submission of full manuscript: September 15, 2003
   Notification of acceptance: November 15, 2003
   Camera-ready due: January 1, 2004
   Publication date: April 2004

    The Guest Editors for this issue are:

   Dr. Willie W. Lu
   Infineon Technologies
   1730 N First Street
   San Jose, CA 95112, USA
   willie.lu@infineon.com or wwlu@acm.org

   Prof. Bernhard Walke
   Communication Networks
   Aachen University
   Kopernikusstraße 16
   D-52074 Aachen, Germany
   walke@comnets.rwth-aachen.de

   Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
   Department of E&CE
   University of Waterloo
   Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
   N2L 3G1
   xshen@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca