Call for
Papers
IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic
on
Advances in Wireless VoIP
Beginning
as a frolic among computer enthusiasts, VoIP has managed to set off a
feeding frenzy in both the industrial and scientific communities and
has the potential to radically change telephone communications.
Wireless VoIP in particular has been one of the hottest topics lately
and has gathered considerable momentum mainly due to its potential to
provide new wireless telephony experiences and tight integration with
Internet services. As VoIP holds considerable appeal both from the
users' and service providers' viewpoint, and as consumers get used to
more and more fixed VoIP services, the demand to migrate these
services to wireless environments is ramping up quickly. However,
there are still several challenges that need to be dealt with when
VoIP technologies are deployed in wireless networks. Issues such as
bandwidth efficiency, scheduling and QoS, handover latency / loss in
heterogeneous access networks, as well as call setup delay, resource
reservation and call continuity in different environments, still
raise unique technical challenges associated with wireless VoIP
transmission. These issues, among others, need to be effectively
handled before VoIP services become widely adapted in wireless
networks. For this purpose, both the industrial and scientific
communities have been intensively working to address such issues and
develop economically efficient wireless VoIP services.
The aim of
this feature topic is to report on the latest advances in wireless
VoIP and cover a wide spectrum of topics related to VoIP
communications over wireless networks. Original, tutorial-in-nature
papers are solicited that present recent research and development
findings including experimental results and performance evaluations.
The key topics of interest include the following:
- Emerging VoIP services in all-IP mobile
networks
- Efficiency of VoIP transmission over mobile
radios
- Handover of VoIP sessions across different radio
networks
- Call continuity between VoIP and traditional
circuit-switched networks
- Design, implementation and VoIP
testbed results
- QoS mechanisms tailored to VoIP
transmission
- Header Compression schemes
- Voice
codecs and silence suppression
- VoWLAN architecture and core
protocols
- VoIP over WiMAX
- Call admission control
and QoS support for VoIP over wireless
networks
Schedule
Manuscript submission:
June 15, 2007
Notification of acceptance:
September 15, 2007
Final manuscripts due:
November 1, 2007
Publication date:
January, 2008
Submission
Authors must follow
the IEEE Communications Magazine's guidelines for preparation of the
manuscript. Complete guidelines for prospective authors can be found
at www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html.
All articles to be considered for publication must be submitted
through IEEE Manuscript Central (http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com).
Select "January 2008/Wireless VoIP" from the drop down menu in order
to have your manuscript submitted to this feature
topic.
Guest Editors
Dr. Apostolis K.
Salkintzis
Motorola
E-mail: salki@motorola.com
Prof.
Niovi Pavlidou
Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Greece
Email: niovi@auth.gr
Prof. Qian
Zhang
Department of Computer Science
Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology
Hong Kong
E-mail: qianzh@cse.ust.hk