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                              CALL FOR PAPERS
             IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 

                      MOBILE COMPUTING AND NETWORKING

   There   has   been  rapid  development  in  high-speed  computing  and
   communication,   miniaturization   of  computers,  and  deployment  of
   wireless  communication  infrastructure. On the wireless communication
   infrastructure  side,  the dominant technologies have been IEEE 802.11
   WLAN  and  various  cellular networks such as GSM, UMTS, and CDMA2000.
   The  Bluetooth  technology  provides  short-range connectivity, and is
   poised  to  become  a  standard  for  personal area networking. On the
   device side, there is an array of devices including laptops, palmtops,
   and  cell phones. Advances in these technologies have engendered a new
   paradigm  of  computing. Users are no longer confined to their offices
   and homes to access the Internet, attend a conference, or make a phone
   call.  This provides flexibility in accessing information anywhere and
   at  any  time.  On  the  other hand, the price of this flexibility has
   introduced  new  levels  of  complexity  that  were not encountered in
   software  and  protocol  design in wired networking. Data and resource
   management,  power  conservation,  mobile middleware, and security are
   among  the  key  problems  for  which new solutions are needed. System
   designers  have  been  facing  the  challenges  of  using  constrained
   bandwidth,  limited battery power, and unreliable wireless channels to
   develop  software  and  protocols. Besides, multidimensional tradeoffs
   among  energy usage, bandwidth usage, and various performance criteria
   exist.

   Because  of  the huge cost of deploying the networks for wide area and
   local  connectivity,  there  is  a  need to develop value-added, novel
   wireless  applications  to  attract  more users and to efficiently use
   network  and  device resources. This issue is focused on applications,
   services,  and  infrastructure  to  support  them.  We  solicit papers
   presenting original and unpublished work on the following topics:
     * Application Development in Mobile Systems
          + Peer-to-peer communications
          + Quality of Service in a mobile system
          + Resource-conserving application design
          + Mobile middleware
     * Wireless Access of Services
          + Service advertisement and discovery protocols
          + Specifications and models of services
          + Encryption and authentication in access service
          + Data access in wireless networks
     * Software Support Infrastructure
          + Cross-layer protocol design
          + Power-aware operating systems
          + Power/data rate adaptation scheme

   Prospective  authors  should  follow  the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format
   described  in  the  Information  for  Authors.  All  papers  should be
   submitted  in pdf format via email to wei@dsm.fordham.edu (with a copy
   to d.wei@att.net) according to the following timetable:

                 Manuscript Submission:   FEBRUARY 1, 2004
                 Acceptance Notification: September 1, 2004
                 Final Manuscript Due:    December 1, 2004
                 Publication:             2nd Quarter 2005

   David S. L. Wei
   Dept of CIS
   Fordham University
   Bronx, NY 10458, USA
   wei@dsm.fordham.edu Kshirasagar Naik
   Dept of E&CE
   University of Waterloo
   Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L3G1
   knaik@swen.uwaterloo.ca Yi-Bing Lin
   CSIE Dept
   National Chiao Tun Univ
   Hsinchu, Taiwan 30050
   liny@liny.csie.nctu.edu.tw

   Stephan Olariu
   Comp Sci Dept
   Old Dominion University
   Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
   olariu@cs.odu.edu Li-Chun Wang
   Comm Eng Dept
   National Chiao Tung Univ
   Hsinchu, Taiwan 30050
   lichun@cc.nctu.edu.tw Ram Ramjee
   Bell Labs
   Lucent Technologies
   Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA
   ramjee@dnrc.bell-labs.com