The best-effort service in Internet delivery of data cannot be used for the new multimedia applications. New technologies and new standards are necessary to offer Quality of Service (QoS) for these multimedia applications. Therefore, new communication architectures integrate mechanisms allowing guaranteeing specific quality to services as well as high data rate for the communication systems. This feature topic issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine seeks to survey and present the research and engineering works currently ongoing in the field of QoS.

Due to an overwhelming response to our call for papers for the December 2002 feature topic on “IP-Oriented QoS” we have decided to recall this important topic in a second issue. Quality of service must be seen as an end-to-end process. Assume for example that you want to establish a video conferencing over the Internet using the UMTS (the third generation Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) as the access network for your communications. At the two very end points of this communications process we have the end user terminals, for example a cellular phone at one end and a desktop computer connected to the wired Internet at the other end. The access technology here thus compromised of several systems: The local bearer service providing the service to the cellular phone user, the UMTS bearer service, and the external bearer service providing service to the desktop user.

Without the support of the required QoS indicators (e.g., delay and bandwidth in our current example) by all segments of the network from end to end, we cannot claim that we have a QoS support. UMTS has its own share in providing the QoS but the end point bearer services also need to support similar QoS indicators in order to complete the end-to-end process. Although it is possible to provide the QoS with different ways of support by the individual segments in the network, it will be much more efficient and reliable to provide QoS with close inter-relation between the individual segments.

The focused tutorial and survey contributions as well as research papers are solicited on (but not restricted to) the following subject categories:
 

QoS in heterogeneous networks QoS for wireless and mobile QoS in broadband access networks QoS in WAN QoS routing IP initiations for QoS

Experiences with QoS Simulation models for QoS QoS and metrics Charging and pricing for QoS Platform support for QoS Standardization and QoS

Submission
 

Manuscript Due  15 October, 2003 Acceptance Notification  1 February, 2004 Final Manuscript Due 15 March, 2004 Publication Date June 2004

Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Articles may be edited for clarity and grammatical accuracy, and will be copyedited according to the Magazine’s style. 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/commag/sub_guidelines.html.  All papers must be submitted through the new IEEE Communications Magazine's Manuscript Central. Prospective author are asked to register first at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com. After logging in, please go to the Author Center. In this area they will find instructions on how to submit an article, including how to submit for this specific Feature Topic. You should select June 2004/QoS in IP and Wireless Networks from the drop-down menu on the Manuscript Details page. Papers must be submitted by October 15, 2003.  Accepted papers will also be included in Communications Interactive (CI), the online version of Communications Magazine.

Guest Editors
 

Pascal Lorenz Universite de Haute Alsace IUT de Colmar 34 rue du Grillenbreit 68008 Colmar - FRANCE Phone: +33 3 89 20 23 66 Fax: +33 3 89 20 23 59  Email: lorenz@ieee.org

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

Denis Khotimsky Lucent Bell Labs Holmdel New Jersey USA  Phone: +1-732-949-9673 Fax: +1-732-949-5477 Email: dkhotimsky@lucent.com

 

For a PDF file of this call-for-papres, please click here.

Last Updated 10 Jan 2003