CFP : Special Issue of Kluwer Wireless Personal Communications Journal on Advances on Wireless LANs and PANs

CFP : Special Issue of Kluwer Wireless Personal Communications Journal on Advances on Wireless LANs and PANs
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CALL FOR PAPERS Wireless Personal Communications Journal <http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0929-6212/> ADVANCES ON WIRELESS LANs AND PANs The recent evolution and successful deployment of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) worldwide has paved the way to more intense standardization and R&D activities, that target even more sophisticated and advanced WLAN/WPAN systems. Standardization activities within the IEEE 802.11 working group are already underway for evolving the dominant WLAN standard in several aspects, including security, mobility and quality of service (QoS. In addition, alternative physical and MAC layer proposals are being considered for improving bit rates to ranges in excess of 100 Mbps. Similar activities are taking placing within the ETSI BRAN project to further evolve the HIPERLAN/2 standard. At the same time, the core representative of WPANs, i.e. Bluetooth, is being further evolved by IEEE 802.15 TG1. Other task groups within IEEE 802.15 develop specifications for high- and low-rate WPANs, known as IEEE 802.15.3 and IEEE 802.15.4 respectively. Moreover, interworking mechanisms are being investigated for combining WLAN/WPANs and second-/third-generation cellular networks into hybrid data networks, capable of very high bit rates in strategic locations (hotspots). 3GPP is one notable standardization body that currently standardizes such interworking mechanisms. Last but not least, it is important to note the numerous research projects worldwide that address a vast collection of issues related to WLANs and WPANs, ranging from the seamless mobility across UTRAN and WLAN (see for example the IST EVOLUTE project at http://evolute.intranet.gr/) to heterogeneous multihop wireless networks consisting of combinations of WPAN and WLAN technologies (see for example the IST 6HOP project). All these activities combined with market forecasts, which report that WLANs and WPANs will encounter a tremendous growth in the next years, demonstrate that WLAN and WPAN technologies will play a significant role in the future and will severely impact our business and personal life styles. However, several issues still need to be efficiently addressed, including power consumption, physical and MAC layer architecture, radio resource management, interworking, QoS, security, co-existence with other unlicensed technologies, self configuration, etc. The goal of this special issue is to address the above issues and provide a timely and concise reference of the current activities and research findings in the fields of WLANs and WPANs. In addition, it aims to address the key technical challenges associated with these technologies. In this context, papers are solicited that describe original and unpublished contributions on representative topics, such as: · Authentication and Security in WLANs and WPANs · QoS and policy issues in WLANs/WPANs · Interworking between WLAN and WPAN technologies · WLANs and 2G/3G interworking · Emerging MAC protocols · Technologies for very-high-bit-rate WLANs · Mobility issues and mobility protocols · Support of multimedia over WLAN/WPAN · Multihop and ad hoc architectures · Applications tailored to WLANs/WPANs · Radio resource management techniques · WLANs/WPANs in 4G networks · WLANs/WPANs co-existence issues · Voice/video over WLANs and WPANs · Standardization activities · Performance studies · Self organization in WLAN networks> · Management of large scale WLAN networks Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with the Author Instructions available at <http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0929-6212/>. Authors should send an electronic version (in PDF or MS Word format) to Dr. Apostolis Salkintzis at salki@motorola.com <mailto:a.k.salkintzis@ieee.org> according to the following timetable: Manuscript Submission: August 1, 2004 Acceptance Notification: November 1, 2004 Final Manuscript Due: January 15, 2005 Publication Date: 2nd Quarter 2005 Guest Editors Dr. Apostolis K. Salkintzis Motorola 32 Kifissias Ave, Maroussi Athens, GR-15125, Greece salki@motorola.com Prof. Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou Dep. of Electrical & Computer Eng. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece niovi@eng.auth.gr Prof. Frank H.P. Fitzek Aalborg University Head of Future Visions Niels Jernes Vej 12, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark ff@kom.aau.dk Dr. Vijay K. Varma Telcordia Technologies, NVC 2X-405 331 Newman Springs Road Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA vvarma@telcordia.com

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CALL FOR PAPERS
 
 Wireless Personal Communications Journal
 <http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0929-6212/>
  
 ADVANCES ON WIRELESS LANs AND PANs 
  
 The recent evolution and successful deployment of Wireless Local Area
Networks (WLANs) and Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) worldwide has
paved the way to more intense standardization and R&D activities, that
target even more sophisticated and advanced WLAN/WPAN systems.
Standardization activities within the IEEE 802.11 working group are already
underway for evolving the dominant WLAN standard in several aspects,
including security, mobility and quality of service (QoS. In addition,
alternative physical and MAC layer proposals are being considered for
improving bit rates to ranges in excess of 100 Mbps. Similar activities are
taking placing within the ETSI BRAN project to further evolve the HIPERLAN/2
standard. At the same time, the core representative of WPANs, i.e.
Bluetooth, is being further evolved by IEEE 802.15 TG1. Other task groups
within IEEE 802.15 develop specifications for high- and low-rate WPANs,
known as IEEE 802.15.3 and IEEE 802.15.4 respectively. Moreover,
interworking mechanisms are being investigated for combining WLAN/WPANs and
second-/third-generation cellular networks into hybrid data networks,
capable of very high bit rates in strategic locations (hotspots). 3GPP is
one notable standardization body that currently standardizes such
interworking mechanisms. Last but not least, it is important to note the
numerous research projects worldwide that address a vast collection of
issues related to WLANs and WPANs, ranging from the seamless mobility across
UTRAN and WLAN (see for example the IST EVOLUTE project at
http://evolute.intranet.gr/) to heterogeneous multihop wireless networks
consisting of combinations of WPAN and WLAN technologies (see for example
the IST 6HOP project).  
  
 All these activities combined with market forecasts, which report that
WLANs and WPANs will encounter a tremendous growth in the next years,
demonstrate that WLAN and WPAN technologies will play a significant role in
the future and will severely impact our business and personal life styles.
However, several issues still need to be efficiently addressed, including
power consumption, physical and MAC layer architecture, radio resource
management, interworking, QoS, security, co-existence with other unlicensed
technologies, self configuration, etc. 
  
 The goal of this special issue is to address the above issues and provide
a timely and concise reference of the current activities and research
findings in the fields of WLANs and WPANs. In addition, it aims to address
the key technical challenges associated with these technologies. In this
context, papers are solicited that describe original and unpublished
contributions on representative topics, such as: 
 ·        Authentication and Security in WLANs and WPANs
 ·        QoS and policy issues in WLANs/WPANs
 ·        Interworking between WLAN and WPAN technologies
 ·        WLANs and 2G/3G interworking
 ·        Emerging MAC protocols
 ·        Technologies for very-high-bit-rate WLANs 
 ·        Mobility issues and mobility protocols
 ·        Support of multimedia over WLAN/WPAN
 ·        Multihop and ad hoc architectures
 ·        Applications tailored to WLANs/WPANs
 ·        Radio resource management techniques
 ·        WLANs/WPANs in 4G networks
 ·        WLANs/WPANs co-existence issues
 ·        Voice/video over WLANs and WPANs
 ·        Standardization activities
 ·        Performance studies
 ·        Self organization in WLAN networks> 
 ·        Management of large scale WLAN networks
  
 Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with
the Author Instructions available at
<http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0929-6212/>. Authors should send an
electronic version (in PDF or MS Word format) to Dr. Apostolis Salkintzis at
salki@motorola.com <mailto:a.k.salkintzis@ieee.org> according to the
following timetable: 
  
 Manuscript Submission:         August 1, 2004
 Acceptance Notification:       November 1, 2004
 Final Manuscript Due:          January 15, 2005
 Publication Date:              2nd Quarter 2005
  
  
 Guest Editors
  
 Dr. Apostolis K. Salkintzis
 Motorola
 32 Kifissias Ave, Maroussi
 Athens, GR-15125, Greece
 salki@motorola.com
 
 Prof. Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou
 Dep. of Electrical & Computer Eng.
 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
 Thessaloniki, Greece
 niovi@eng.auth.gr
  
 Prof. Frank H.P. Fitzek
 Aalborg University
 Head of Future Visions
 Niels Jernes Vej 12,
 DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark
 ff@kom.aau.dk
  
 Dr. Vijay K. Varma
 Telcordia Technologies, NVC 2X-405
 331 Newman Springs Road
 Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA
 vvarma@telcordia.com