Broadband Access Series 2002­2003

Call for Papers


     Not that long ago, each of telecommunications networks (switched telephony, data transmission, cable television) was evolving in a specific way to support its legacy services. However, growing pressure to provide multimedia services together with a progressive deregulation of telecommunications markets has encouraged or even forced operators to armor their networks with broadband capabilities. As the core networks become fully fiberized the bandwidth bottleneck can be easily identified in the access part ("last mile") of any network. CATV operators deliver huge bandwidth to our homes but there is limited bandwidth and infrastructure for supporting a return channel. On the other hand, a telephone connection is two-way but the offered bandwidth is extremely narrow.
     In recent years, different access technologies were brought into existence in order to provide the last mile with an increased bandwidth and a two-way connectivity.
     Telecom operators are lobbying for both xDSL technologies that expand bandwidth of the existing copper plant up to several tens of Mbps and FITL solutions that allow for an efficient sharing of access fibers by residential customers.
     CATV operators do not lag behind and are installing a return communication channel in a low-frequency part of a coax bandwidth.
     Two other newcomers to the multimedia market -- wireless solutions and digital satellites -- offer important benefits such as rapid deployment and are thus not to be sneezed at. It is an easy guess that they will also serve some part of the multimedia cake.
     The Broadband Access series addresses a full spectrum of issues related to a residential access - from signal level, through network architectures together with their life cycle costs up to live trial descriptions. We encourage experts in these areas to share their knowledge with the readership of the IEEE Communications Magazine. We are going to publish reviewed submission relevant to broadband access three times per year (months to be set by the Chief Editor). The papers, prepared according to the author's guidelines (available at http://www.comsoc.org/~ci/), should be submitted by e-mail to series editors at least four months before the issue. The 2002 calendar is:

Manuscript Due

    Final Manuscript Due      Publication Date   
September 30, 2002 November 30, 2002 February 2003
April 30 June 30 September 2003

 

Send materials to:
Steve GORSHE Zdzislaw PAPIR
PMC-Sierra, Inc. Dept. Telecommunications
Portland, OR U.S.A. AGH University of Technology
steve_gorshe@pmc-sierra.com Cracow, Poland
  papir@kt.agh.edu.pl