CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on

Fourth Generation Wireless Networks and Interconnecting Standards

http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~abbas/CFP/IEEEPC-Oct01.html

Third generation wireless networks are commencing their services in several countries soon. This generation includes several standards of IMT-2000 such as UMTS, CDMA2000, UWC-136, and EGPRS. The new generation wireless cellular networks although include new IP-based and mobility supported features still will suffer from a divergence between standards which limits the roaming of users between heterogeneous networks and thus limits the mobility of users. The issues of QoS such as perceived data rate, delay for message delivery, and the cost are yet to be addressed completely in the third generation wireless network. Interconnection of wireless cellular networks of different standards with the wired networks and other type of wireless networks such as satellite networks in an efficient and cost effective way calls for a new generation of wireless networks.

This special issue will address the state-of-the-art of proposals and research activities toward the fourth generation networks and how these networks can provide global seamless roaming between heterogeneous wireless and wired networks. Introduction of the interworking units (IWU) between networks of different standards (2G, 3G, and 4G) and between satellite and terrestrial wireless networks could be considered as the main issue in these networks. How the fourth generation networks can change the roaming capability of the previous generations at an affordable cost and perceived quality and how they boost the progress toward real personal communications are the issues to be discussed in this special issue. The special issue looks at different technologies, different protocols, and different network architectures that will be supported in the fourth generation wireless networks. Applications and services such as location services to be supported in the fourth generation wireless networks as well as challenges in this migration are of particular interests in this special issue. 

Suggested topics for this special issue on “Fourth Generation Wireless Networks and Interconnecting Standards” include but not limited to: 
 

2G/3G migration to fourth generation networks Interoperability and interconnection between heterogeneous networks Trends and developments for fourth generation wireless networks Network architectures and protocols for fourth generation networks Location aware services and applications in fourth generation networks

Management techniques for 4G networks (traffic, mobility, location, QoS, etc.) Physical layer enhancement for fourth generation networks Seamless roaming between satellite and terrestrial networks Support of previous generation infrastructure in fourth generation networks Role of Internet and its interconnection in fourth generation wireless networks

Submission
 

Manuscript Due  December 31, 2000 Acceptance Notification  March 1, 2001 Final Manuscript Due June 1, 2001 Publication Date October 2001

Research articles are solicited for review. All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at http://www.comsoc.org/pci/pub_guidelines.html. Please send PDF (preferred), Microsoft Word, or PostScript formatted papers to abbas@ee.usyd.edu.au no later than December 31, 2000. Accepted papers will also be included in Personal Communications Interactive (PCI), the online version of Personal Communications Magazine.

Guest Editors
 

Abbas Jamalipour School of Electrical and Information Engineering University of Sydney Sydney NSW 2006, Australia Phone: +61 2 9351 2843 Fax: +61 2 9351 3847 Email: abbas@ee.usyd.edu.au

Sirin Tekinay Electrical and Computer Engineering New Jersey Institute of Technology University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102 Phone: +1 973 596 8464 Fax: +1 973 596 5680 Email: tekinay@adm.njit.edu

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