CALL FOR PAPERS
             IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 

                            4G WIRELESS SYSTEMS

   Work  towards specification of fourth generation (4G) or "beyond third
   generation" (B3G) is ongoing. One key feature of 4G and B3G systems is
   likely  to be the availability of much higher data rates than those in
   third  generation  systems.  Higher spectral efficiency and lower cost
   per  transmitted  bit are other key requirements. Additional important
   expected  features  are  increased flexibility of mobile terminals and
   networks,  multimedia  services  and  high  speed  data connections. A
   future  convergence  with  digital broadcasting systems is yet another
   expected  feature.  The  use of multiple transmit and receive antennas
   for  achieving  radio  links with increased reliability and efficiency
   will  probably also be a feature of such future systems. Also, while a
   number  of  papers on space-time coding have been published, much less
   attention  has been paid to multiple access schemes that would be able
   to  efficiently share potentially high capacity of these systems among
   different users in an asynchronous channel.

   The papers in this issue will focus on state-of-the-art research on 4G
   wireless  systems  in  RAN (Radio Access Networks) up to layer 3, i.e.
   PHY   (physical)/MAC   (medium  access  control)/RRC  (radio  resource
   control)  layers.  We  solicit  papers  covering  a  variety of topics
   including but not limited to the following topics:
     * Systems and architecture
     * Multiple access schemes
     * Radio transmission technologies
     * CDMA/TDMA/OFDMA
     * Crosslayer optimization
     * Mobility management
     * Resource allocation issues
     * Bandwidth on demand issue
     * Variable rate modulation schemes
     * Turbo codes/LDPC codes/iterative decoding schemes
     * Multi-user detection
     * Channel modeling/measurement
     * Convergence of 3G/WLAN/WPAN/DxB
     * Software defined radio
     * Multiple antennas and MIMO techniques/Space-Time Codes
     * Wireless multimedia, audio, and video
     * Wireless application protocols

   Only  original  and  unpublished  research  papers will be considered.
   Authors  should  follow  the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in
   the  Information  for Authors. There will be only one round of reviews
   and  acceptance  will  be  limited  to  papers  needing  only moderate
   revisions.  Prospective  authors  should submit a pdf version of their
   complete  manuscript  to  jsac@korea.ac.kr  according to the following
   timetable:

                 Manuscript Submission:   JANUARY 15, 2005
                 Acceptance Notification: July 15, 2005
                 Final Manuscript Due:    October 15, 2005
                 Publication:             2nd Quarter 2006

   Inkyu  Lee,  Dept.  of  Communications  Eng,  Korea University, Seoul,
   Korea, inkyu@korea.ac.kr
   Carl-Erik   W.   Sundberg,   SundComm,   Chatham,   New  Jersey,  USA,
   cews@ieee.org
   Mamoru Sawahashi, NTT DoCoMo, Japan,
   sawahashi@mlab.yrp.nttdocomo.co.jp
   Savo  Glisic,  Electrical Engineering Dept., University of Oulu, Oulu,
   Finland, savoIEEE@ee.oulu.fi
   Steve   McLaughlin,  School  of  Eng.  &  Electronics,  University  of
   Edinburgh, UK, sml@ee.ed.ac.uk