CFP-ComCom-2007-01-15

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Call for Papers

Computer Communications Special Issue on End-to-end Support over Heterogeneous Wired-Wireless Networks

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In recent years, many networking technologies have emerged and have been deployed to enable ubiquitous Internet access anywhere, anytime, using a wide range of devices. In particular, we have witnessed the rapid proliferation of different types of wireless communication networks including Cellular, Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), Bluetooth, WiMax, etc which are widely being used as extensions to the wired Internet infrastructure. In addition to the convergence of heterogeneous wired-wireless networks, the issue of mobility of end-users has also become a central issue of the evolving heterogeneous mobile Internet. There are still many research challenges that need to be addressed to enable seamless, transparent, wireless access to Internet services for mobile end-users. This special issue will provide insights into some of the latest research network design approaches, techniques, and technologies that can provide architectural, protocol, connectivity, mobility, Quality of Service (QoS) support on an end-to-end basis over the underlying IP-based wired-wireless Internet infrastructure for emerging mobile wireless Internet applications with diverse requirements. We expect this Special issue to provide innovative, flexible, and scalable solutions that can be widely deployed and adopted by end-users.

We are particularly interested in research contributions that cover experimental activities involving the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of novel prototype architectures, protocols, and services related to end-to-end support over heterogeneous (i.e., wired-wireless) networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

QoS support over heterogeneous networks

QoS routing and signaling

Middleware platforms and technologies

Transport protocols

Congestion control

Admission control

Cross-layer design issues in wired/wireless networks

Handoff management

Mobility management

IP mobility

System support infrastructures and services

Service deployment and adaptation

Multimedia Communications

Multimedia services and protocols

Seamless internetworking designs and architectures

Resource management

Security issues, architectures, and protocols

Position and tracking technologies

Location services

Power management for communications

Pricing, charging, accounting issues

IMPORTANT DATES

Full papers due: January 15, 2007

Notification of acceptance/revision/rejection: February 26, 2007

Revised manuscript due: March 19, 2007

Final manuscript due: April 2, 2007

Publication date: 2007

Papers submitted for consideration for this special issue must be written in English and describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals and conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted.

All submitted papers will go through a double-blind review process. Prospective authors should not have any details other than the title of the article on the first page of the manuscript. A covering letter with the following information: names of authors, affiliations, addresses, faxes, and emails should also be submitted along with each submitted manuscript.

All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted via the journal's online submission and peer-review systems at http://www.ees.elsevier.com/comcom. A prospective author should

1. Register in EES (follow the instructions on the site)
2. Select: Submit Manuscript from Main Menu
3. When choosing Article Type please select the title of the special issue ('Special issue: End-to-End Support' for this Special issue submission) you are submitting to.

For any further information about this Special issue, please contact Sherali Zeadally, email: szeadally@udc.edu

GUEST EDITORS

Dr. Sherali Zeadally

Department of Computer Science and Information Technology

University of the District of Columbia

Washington, DC 20008

USA

Email: szeadally@udc.edu.

Dr. Bin Wei

AT&T Labs ? Research

180 Park Ave, Florham Park, NJ 07932

USA

Email: bw@research.att.com.

Dr. Bjorn Landfeldt

School of Information Technologies, J12

University of Sydney, NSW 2006

AUSTRALIA

Email: bjornl@it.usyd.edu.au