CfP-IEEE JSAC Mobile Communications

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       IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

             NETWORKING AND PERFORMANCE ISSUES OF
                PERSONAL MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS 

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in personal
mobile communications systems and services, fueled by availability
and exploitation of wireless spectrum, and the development of 
low-cost, low-power communications devices.  Various types of 
such systems and services have been referred to as Personal
Communications Networks (PCN), Personal Communications Services
(PCS), Universal Mobile Telecommunications Services (UMTS), 
Universal Personal Telecommunications (UPT), etc.

The development and deployment of these personal mobile 
communications systems raise significant technical issues at
all protocol layers on these systems.  There has been a 
tremendous amount of research and engineering work at the 
low-level protocols, aimed at meeting the challenges posed by
the fundamental characteristics of personal mobile communications,
namely user mobility, and the physical and link behavior and
capacity of the wireless medium.  However, these fundamental
characteristics have significant impacts on the network and
higher protocol layers.  In particular, several challenges are
raised for the wired infrastructure required to support personal
mobile communications, in areas such as signaling, mobility and
profile management, network databases, service software and 
architecture, teletraffic and performance, and network resource
management, internetworking between wireless and wired networks,
to name a few.

The aim of this issue of J-SAC is to focus attention on the networking
and performance issues posed by personal mobile communications at the
network and higher protocol layers of the communications networks,
and to also highlight solution approaches for the potential issues.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

 + Mobility management protocols and performance
 + Signaling network architectures, protocols, traffic and performance
 + Models of user mobility and characterization of mobility patterns
 + Tracking of user locations and performance tradeoffs
 + Network architectures for terminal, personal and service mobility
 + Network database algorithm, design, placement, performance, and
   reliability
 + Security and authentication protocols and their impacts on the
   wired infrastructure 
 + Internetworking of wireless and wired Advanced Intelligent Networks
   (AIN)
 + Internetworking of wireless and ATM networks
 + Interworking of private (including radio LANs) and public wireless
   networks
 + Wired infrastructure and protocols to support wireless multimedia
 + Overload control design and performance of wireless and wired
   infrastructure for mobile communications
 + Architectures, protocols and network support for personal mobile
   information services
 + Personal mobile services and applications, including mobile 
   computing
 + Billing and Operations Systems support

Original, unpublished research articles will be considered.  All 
articles will be evaluated according to a two-stage process as follows.
Prospective authors are first invited to submit a summary of their 
paper to one of the Guest Editors listed below by April 1, 1996.
Commitment notification is anticipated for June 1, 1996.  If a 
summary is accepted, complete manuscript will be requested for
submission by August 15, 1996 for full review.  The anticipated
publication date for this issue will be 2nd Quarter 1997.


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