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IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, Special Issue on
"Toward Seamless Internetworking of Wireless LAN and Cellular Networks"
 

Due to many requests, we have extended the deadline from June 15 to July
1st.

 
Important Dates
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Manuscript Due                1 July 2004
Acceptance Notification       15 September 2004
Final Revised Manuscript Due  1 November 2004
Publication                   2005
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                              Call for Papers
   
                   IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
   
                              Special Issue on
   
   Toward Seamless Internetworking of Wireless LAN and Cellular Networks
   
   Wireless  LAN  is a very cost-effective alternative to cellular access
   networks in hot spot areas, such as business centers, supermarkets and
   airports,  as  their equipment cost is relatively low and they operate
   in  the unlicensed industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) band. Data
   rate  provided by the Wireless LAN standards is far above the targeted
   144  kbps of GPRS and 384 Kbps -- 2 Mbps of the UMTS cellular systems,
   making  the  Wireless  LAN  an  important  and attractive, yet easy to
   implement  adds  on  service  to  the  usual 3G cellular systems. As a
   result,  most  of  cellular  system  providers have now considered the
   integration  of the Wireless LAN with their wide area cellular network
   in  order to cope with the ever-increasing demand from high-speed data
   applications at least in hot spot and indoor environments. At the same
   time,  such  integration  will  ultimately reduce the cost and provide
   service affordability to mobile data users.

   Internetworking of the Wireless LAN (as an extension of the wired LAN)
   with   the   mobile   cellular  technology  however  would  not  be  a
   straightforward  task.  As  a  first  step,  an  architecture that can
   provide  adaptation  of  different  elements  implemented  in  the two
   systems  must  be  designed.  ETSI  (the  European  Telecommunications
   Standards  Institute)  has  already  specified  two generic approaches
   toward  the  integration  of  the  Wireless LAN and GPRS/UMTS systems,
   known   as  loose  coupling  and  tight  coupling.  Although  the  two
   approaches  are  promising,  there is no final decision on whether the
   future  integrated  network  would use either of those approaches or a
   completely  different  one.  The  first  step will be followed by many
   other   steps   such  as  mobility  management,  data  security,  user
   authentication  and  authorization,  traffic  and  congestion control,
   quality of service guarantee, real-time and constant/variable bit-rate
   support  for  voice  and  video.  Without  all those steps, a seamless
   internetworking between the two systems would not be feasible.

   This  special  issue  of  the  Magazine  is  devoted  to  the research
   activities  within the industry and academia toward the integration of
   the  Wireless  LAN  and cellular 3G systems. Articles for this special
   issue will be solicited through an open call-for-papers and invitation
   to  the  experts  in  the  field from industry and academia. Topics of
   interest include but not limited to:

     * Architecture   design  alternatives  for  an  integrated  Wireless
       LAN-Cellular system
     * Design  of  internetworking  function  units and their performance
       analysis
     * Smooth  handoff  techniques  between  Wireless  LAN  and  cellular
       systems
     * Quality of service establishment in heterogeneous networks
     * Network   selection   criteria   and   selection   techniques   in
       heterogeneous networks
     * Traffic control techniques and traffic monitoring in heterogeneous
       networks
     * IP   address   selection  techniques  in  LAN/Cellular  integrated
       environment
     * Macro-mobility techniques for seamless internetworking
     * Pricing   and   subscription  database  techniques  in  integrated
       Wireless LAN-Cellular systems
     * Security techniques in heterogeneous networks
     * Location management techniques
     * Convergence  of  link  layer  functionality  in  Wireless  LAN and
       Cellular systems
     * Standardization  activities  as  well as proprietary solutions for
       the Wireless LAN-Cellular integration

   Submission
   
   Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style
   comprehensible  to  readers  outside the specialty of the article. All
   submissions  will  be reviewed based on technical merit and relevance.
   Mathematical  equations  should  not be used (in justified cases up to
   three  simple  equations could be allowed, provided the consent of the
   Guest  Editor;  more  than three equations require permission from the
   Editor-in-Chief).  Articles  should  have no more than 4,500 words, no
   more than 6 tables/figures, and no more than 15 references. Guidelines
   for     prospective     authors    can    be    found    on-line    at
   http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/pub_guidelines.html.  Please  send  PDF
   (preferred),  Microsoft  Word, or PostScript formatted papers to Abbas
   Jamalipour   (a.jamalipour@ieee.org)  no  later  than  15  June  2004.
   Accepted  papers  will  also  be  included  in Wireless Communications
   Interactive  (WCI),  the  online  version  of  Wireless Communications
   Magazine.

   Manuscript Due:15 June 2004
       Acceptance Notification: 15 September 2004
       Final Revised Manuscript Due: 1 November 2004
       Publication: 2005

   Guest Editor
   
   Professor Abbas Jamalipour
   School of Electrical and Information Engineering
   University of Sydney
   Sydney NSW 2006, AUSTRALIA
   Phone: +61 2 9351 2843
   Fax: +61 2 9351 3847
   Email: a.jamalipour@ieee.org