Note: (In Aug 2004, their Web page claimed the paper submission deadline is
Jan 1 2005, not 2 Feb 2005 as mentioned below.)
See: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/cfp.html


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Call for Papers
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on
Applications and Services for the B3G/4G era

The path towards 4G networks incorporates a number of critical trends.
Operators have already made huge investments in 2G, 2G+ and 3G technologies.
Moreover, future wireless infrastructures will have to compete with multiple
successfully deployed wired and wireless communications' systems. Thus, the
4G era has to provide really break-through technologies in order to persuade
for its necessity. Innovations in air interface technology, enhancements in
signalling and transport protocols, end-to-end QoS, worldwide seamless
mobility of terminals and personal bubbles will lead to next generation
wireless networks. Research on all these areas has been initiated, and it is
expected to provide impressive results in a couple of years.

Besides the system and network infrastructure advances, innovative steps are
also required in the applications and services domain. Evolution towards 4G
is expected to be similar to what happened to the Internet: from a limited
application environment to an integral part of average person's life.
Wireless services will shift from voice to packet data and users will become
more accustomed to conducting wireless business and financial transactions.
Many future wireless applications have already been considered. Mobile
Internet, mobile multiparty videoconference, mobile office, mobile VPNs,
mobile tele-presence, mobile e-commerce, etc. are among the foreseen future
applications, but none has already convinced that it is the "killer" one.

This special issue of IEEE Wireless Communications aims to describe the
future service creation, execution and provisioning environments, frameworks
and platforms, trends in the direction towards new added value applications
and services, applications and services that will enable new business models
and new ways of working anywhere, anytime and in any context, and share this
vision with the magazines' audience.

In more details, this special issue seeks unpublished papers in that tackle
the following areas:
- Applications and services for mobile users and professionals
- Interoperable mobile/ wireless technologies and convergence of fixed and mobile communication infrastructures.
- Open, context and location aware middleware for heterogeneous mobile networks
- Service creation environments for B3G/4G mobile/wireless systems
- Innovative, adaptive and self-configuring mobile and wireless applications
- Adaptive, polymorphic and reconfigurable systems for mobile environments
- Applications for mobile PANs
- End-to-end QoS issues for heterogeneous mobile networks
- Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems
- Power management and control algorithms

Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts as a Postscript or PDF email attachment to Dr.
Theodore Zahariadis, highlighting the reference author of the paper. Detailed instructions to
authors can be found in: http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/index.html

Schedule:
Paper submission deadline: February 2, 2005 
Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2005
Final papers: July 30, 2005
Special issue: October 2005

Guest Editors:
Theodore Zahariadis, Ellemedia Technologies, Greece (zahariad@ellemedia.com)
Bharat Doshi, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Labs, USA (bharat.doshi@jhuapl.edu)