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     EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking EURASIP


                      Optical Wireless Communications

                              Call for Papers

     EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking invites
      submissions to a special issue on the topic of Optical Wireless
   Communications. Submissions to this issue should follow the guidelines
   and submission procedure described below. When technologies penetrate
      and reach through many products our home, they become pervasive
        without many of us realizing it, such technologies are very
     successful. In many ways, optical wireless links have succeeded in
    permeating our homes and in this vision, and little credit has been
                    given to this important technology.

   Products ranging from the TV remote control unit to IrDA ports with a
     worldwide installed base on products of over 200 million units and
      growing at 40% annually, optical wireless is widely available on
   personal computers, peripherals, embedded systems, and devices of all
                                   types.

    Optical wireless has an impact on other outdoor applications such as
     bringing broadband to the home, (The last mile), Optical Wireless
    LANs, (802.11), and considered in intersatellite link applications.

   This special issue seeks to highlight the exciting of ongoing research
    in this important area. Original manuscripts are solicited on issues
        of Optical Wireless Techniques as they are related to indoor
                               applications.

            Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
     * Indoor and outdoor links
     * Optical LANs
     * Propagation effects
     * Indoor and outdoor channel modeling and ambient noise
     * Modulation and coding techniques
     * Capacity limits
     * Transceiver design
     * Link layer, network and transport protocols and modeling
     * High speed system design
     * Demonstrators  (cameras,  wrist  watches,  phones,  printers,  LAN
       extensions, home network control, etc.)
     * Applications (financial, aircraft, automobile, etc.)
     * Standards and eye safety issues, (802.11, IrDA, IEC 825-1, etc.)
     * ATM and wireless multimedia
     * Coexistence with radio technology (Bluetooth)
     * Future market and technology prospects.

   Authors should follow the EURASIP JWCN manuscript format described at
    the journal site http://wcn.hindawi.com/. Prospective authors should
     submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
                EURASIP JWCN's manuscript tracking system at
     http://mts.hindawi.com/wcn/, according to the following timetable.

                 Manuscript Due            March 31, 2004
                 Acceptance Notification   June 30, 2004
                 Final Manuscript Due      August 31, 2004
                 Publication Date          4th Quarter, 2004

                               Guest Editors:

        A. Boucouvalas, School of Design, Engineering and Computing,
      Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole Dorset BH12 5 BB, UK

                                Refereeing:

   If you are willing to referee paper(s) for this special issue, please
    visit the following URL: http://mts.hindawi.com/wcn/si/si.php?si=OWC.
    All referees shall receive a complimentary copy of the special issue
                             upon publication.