Guest Editors
Yang Xiao, The University of Memphis, USA
E-mail: yangxiao@memphis.edu
Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
E-mail: pan@cs.gsu.edu
Kin K. Leung, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, USA
E-mail: kin@bell-labs.com
Recently, the demand for wireless communications has grown tremendously. The need for "information anywhere anytime" has been a driving force for the increasing growth and advances in wireless communication and portable computing devices. The field of mobile computing and wireless computing is the merging place of these advances in information processing and communication with the aim of providing seamless and ubiquitous computing environment for mobile users. Location management, mobility management, and paging management are critical issues to provide "information anywhere anytime." Furthermore, requested information and services have to be delivered to mobile users with adequate quality of service (QoS). Ensuring expected QoS is still a big challenge, especially in light of user mobility and environments with heterogeneous wireless networks such as 3G/4G network, wireless LAN and ad hoc network.
The purpose of the special issue is to focus on the novel ways in which location, mobility, paging and QoS management schemes for cellular networks, mobile IP, wireless LANs and ad hoc networks. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
The manuscripts should be submitted as an e-mail attachment in PDF format to Yang Xiao at yangxiao@memphis.edu. If the file is larger than 1MB, the authors are encouraged to use WINZIP. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/76507157/ForAuthors.html
Schedule:
· Submission deadline: November 1, 2004
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Notification of acceptance:
March
1, 2005 March 31, 2005
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Submission of final version:
April 15, 2005
April 20, 2005
· Publication of special issue: Second half of 2005