CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue on Mobility and Resource Management 
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine 

Manuscript submission date: October 1, 2003
Acceptance notification: January 15, 2004
Final manuscript due:  March 15, 2004
Publication date: June 15, 2004


Theme 

With the rapidly growing demand for "anywhere, anytime" high-speed Internet 
access, many advanced radio and network technologies have already been 
developed. Integration of these different technologies will be an essential 
trend in the near future. In such a heterogeneous environment, the "mobility 
and resource management" issue becomes very critical, particularly for the 
QoS support with various kinds of services. Not only user mobility and 
resource provisioning within a single network should be considered, but also 
seamless cross network services and interactions should be provided. Many 
issues need to be addressed for mobility and resource management in 
heterogeneous wireless networks, including the integration of the mobility 
protocols adopted in different network; the impacts of user mobility on and 
the integration with network resource management and power consumption of 
handheld devices; support of IP protocols on mobile computing systems for 
seamless tier mobility. Furthermore, security and privacy need to be 
addressed for roaming users from network to network. Modeling technologies 
and performance analysis are needed to address new types of mobility and 
resource management in heterogeneous networks.

Topics of Interest 

This special issue is targeted at the above issues related to mobility and 
resource management. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished 
papers to this special issue. Topics include, but are not limited to:

(a) Mobility and resource management schemes for future telecommunications
    systems (including UMTS, cdma-2000, and TD-SCDMA)
(b) Impact of mobility on and integration with resource management
(c) Impact of mobility on power consumption and strategy for energy 
    conservation
(d) Mobile IP and SIP mobility
(e) Security and privacy Issues in mobility management
(f) Mobility and resource aware applications
(g) Analytical modeling and performance analysis


Submission Instruction

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/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html. Electronic submissions 
are accepted only in Postscript and PDF formats and should be sent to 
ieee-wc-mr@csie.ntu.edu.tw directly. If you have any questions, please 
contact any one of the guest editors.


Guest Editors 

Prof. Yuguang "Michael" Fang 
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida
435 Engineering Building, P.O.Box 116130
Gainesville, FL 32611
Email: fang@ece.ufl.edu 

Prof. Phone Lin 
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taiwan University
Taipei, 106, Taiwan
Email: plin@csie.ntu.edu.tw 

Prof. Jason Yi-Bing Lin
Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Chiao-Tung University
Hsin-Chu, 300, Taiwan
Email: liny@csie.nctu.edu.tw