IEEE
Communications
Magazine
Call for Papers
Background
Mobile communications has evolved to an integral
component in our everyday life providing a growing variety of services.
Traditional cellular technologies have been enhanced by Internet technologies
in order to repeat the enormous success of the Internet also for mobile
environments. In addition, the trend of ubiquitous computing introduces
large-scale interaction with the environment based on sensors and actuators.
Industry is pushing new standards that allow high data rate mobile multimedia
applications as well as seamless communication across heterogeneous access and
networking technologies. In such a diverse world, the success of the next
generation mobile communication systems will depend on services and
applications that will be provided. Future service platforms are expected to
integrate those different paradigms providing open interfaces to service and
application providers taking new software technologies into account. New
paradigms are emerging that need to be supported. For example, the customer
acceptance is considered to be widely increased by tailoring services and
applications to actual user needs, their preferences and the context a user is
in. Another example is peer-to-peer services, where (mobile) users directly
interact with each other without central control. A well engineered next
generation service platform should provide all
means to allow innovative services
to be created, deployed, and managed addressing customer and provider needs.
For example, third party interfaces will allow chaining of expertise in service
provisioning. In addition, semantic technologies may help to structure
contextual knowledge about the userís environment.
Scope of
Contributions
The papers of this feature topic will focus on
advanced concepts for next generation mobile service platforms. We solicit
papers covering a variety of topics that include, but are not limited to the
following aspects:
Papers should be of tutorial in nature and authors
must follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines for preparation of the
manuscript. For further detail please refer to 'Information for Authors' on the
IEEE Communications Magazine web site at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html.
Manuscripts should be
submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/
by December 31, 2005. Please select 'September 2006/Advances in Service
Platform Technologies for Next Generation Mobile Systems' in the drop down
menu.
Schedule of
Submissions
Manuscript
submission:
December
31, 2005
Notification
of acceptance:
April
1, 2006
Final
manuscripts due: June
15, 2006
Publication
date:
September
2006
Guest
Editors
Wolfgang Kellerer
Landsberger Str. 312
80687 Munich, Germany
Tel: +49-89-56824-222
Email: kellerer@docomolab-euro.com
Stefan
Arbanowski
Fraunhofer
FOKUS
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee
31
10589 Berlin,
Germany
Tel.:
+49-30-3463-8197
Email: arbanowski@fokus.fraunhofer.de