Wiley's Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
                         Call for papers on Special
                                   Issue:
        Modelling and Performance Evaluation of Radio Resource QoS for
                         Next-Generation Wireless and Mobile Networks

Next generation wireless and mobile communication systems are rapidly
evolving to satisfy the demands of various network users. Due to the great
success and enormous impact of IP networks, high-speed transmission is now
possible for both indoor and outdoor wireless systems, internet access and
web browsing have become the ruling paradigm for the next generation
systems. It is envisioned that new generation wireless networks and
hand-held terminals will support a wide variety of multimedia services such
as multimedia web browsing, video and news on demand, mobile office system,
stock market information, and so on, to mobile users anywhere, anytime in an
uninterrupted and seamless way with low-powered handsets. The
characteristics of wireless links, as well as the desire to maintain
connectivity while on the move, offer significant challenges to provisioning
quality of service and the related performance is of central interest. Since
the resources (such as time, frequency and code) in the wireless segments of
such networks are very limited, over-dimensioning the network resource is
equivalent to poor capital investment, while congestion at busy hours could
mean lost calls and lost revenues. It is therefore critical for wireless
network designers to utilize these resources efficiently and effectively. In
response to the above demand for next generation wireless and mobile
communication systems, the proposed special issue aims at providing a timely
and concise reference of the current activities and findings in the relevant
technical fields. The primary goal is to address the key technical issues
pertaining to the integrated new systems and present novel technical
contributions. In this context, original papers are solicited reporting on
representative topics, such as:

            Planning of next generation wireless and mobile networks
            Access network architecture and radio resource planning
            Analysis and design of network architectures and algorithms
            Mobility models and performance evaluation of wireless networks
            Robust modeling and analysis of wireless resource management
            Resource control and QoS in wireless networks
            Dynamic and hybrid resource allocation schemes
            Resource control and multimedia QoS support
            Channel characterization
            Routing problems in wireless ad hoc networks
            Network management and traffic engineering
            Tools and techniques for network measurement and simulation
            Access control and scheduling

Guest editors
Wei Li                   Daehyoung Hong          Demetrios Kazakos        Li-Chun Wang
Department of EECS       Department of EE        Department of EECS       Department of Comm. Eng.
University of Toledo     Sogang University       University of Toledo     National Chiao Tung
Toledo, OH 43606, USA    Seoul, 100-611, Korea   Toledo, OH 43606, USA    University, Taiwan, R.O.C
wli@eecs.utoledo.edu     dhong@sogang.ac.kr      kazakos@eecs.utoleod.edu lichun@cc.nctu.edu.tw

Time schedule
Submission deadline: December 1, 2004
Submission of final paper to Wiley: May 31, 2005
Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2005
Publication Date: Second half of 2005

Submission procedure:
Papers should be submitted electronically (Postscript or PDF files only) to
Dr. Wei Li (wli@eecs.utoledo.edu). Authors are also requested to submit a
separate cover letter via e-mail, which contains the paper title, the
authors' names and affiliations, and a 200 word abstract. Detailed
instructions to authors can be found in: .

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