Call for Papers

IEEE Radio Communications: Components, Systems, and Networks

A Quarterly Supplement to IEEE Communications Magazine

Supplement Editor: Dr. Joseph Mitola III, The MITRE Corporation

IEEE Radio Communications will cover components, systems and networks related to radio frequency (RF) technology. Articles will be in-depth, cutting-edge tutorials, emphasizing state of the art design solutions involving physical and other lower-layer issues in radio communications, including RF, microwave and radio-related wireless communications topics.

IEEE Radio Communications emphasizes practical solutions and emerging research for immediate and practical applications for innovative research, design engineers, and engineering managers in industry, government, and academic pursuits. Articles are written in clear, concise language and at a level accessible to those engaged in the design, development, and application of products, systems, and networks.

A rigorous peer review process will ensure that only the highest quality technical articles are published, keeping to the high IEEE standard of technical objectivity that precludes marketing and product endorsements.

IEEE Radio Communications binds into IEEE Communications quarterly, on special paper stock, ensuring in-depth readership by our paid and unduplicated circulation of over 50,000 subscribers.

Scheduled Publication Dates for 2004: March, June, September, December

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Scope

Radio Communications

• Emerging Radio systems: WLAN (802.11, Bluetooth, WiFi, etc), cellular 3G, 4G, and XG systems, Automatic Link Establishment (ALE), microwave and millimeter wave trunking and backhaul, RF identification (RFID), intelligent vehicle highway radio systems, radionavigation (GPS, Glonass, and hybrid GPS-INS location finding systems), emitter location finding (E911, search and rescue, general methods), system security, handheld wireless devices, radio access points to the fixed wireline system, and radio-enabled services such as proximity badges.
• Radio architectures (direct conversion radios, low IF radios, open architecture standards such as the SDR Forum and Object Management Group radio standards, and novel and emerging approaches to radio/wireless systems architectures)
• Processors (e.g. CMOS, GaAs, BiCMOS, SiGe and emerging System on Chip (SoC) technologies) and related software technologies (downloads, security, compact operating systems, real-time CORBA, development environments, and other radio-enabling technologies)
• Specific components (e.g. antennas, power amplifiers, synthesizers, superconducting components, highly programmable analog parameters, etc.) Radio Techniques (e.g. pre-distorion for non-linear amplifiers, polar transmitter architectures, Direct Digital Synthesis and advanced approaches)
• Receivers (DC offset compensation, I/Q gain/phase imbalance, etc)
• Smart antennas including sectorized and emerging massively parallel apertures, MEMS signal processing, shared apertures, Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) and related multi-user smart antenna technologies
• Multiple-Input Multiple Output (MIMO) and technologies that exploit multipath and spatial diversity for increased communications capacity or Quality of Service (QoS)

Baseband Part of Physical Layer

• Baseband platform (e.g. chip with dual core DSP/MCU, single chip with digital and converters, SoC hybrids of FPGAs, DSPs and ASICs; ADCs, sampling and resampling techniques, timing and frequency control subsystems, etc.)
• Algorithms that will run in baseband (filter algorithms, equalizers, error control coding and link layer protocols; protocol interactions; MIMO/STAP algorithms)
• Air-interface aspects such as framing, burst generation, duplexing, air interface security, multi-air-protocol switching, channel modulation, etc)

Radio System Topics Related to Networking

• Speech coding and multi-codec conversion, video coding, multimedia integration, and other signal processing techniques related to wireless application
• Radio resource management, especially agile use of RF spectrum and radio etiquettes
• Parts layer 2 and 3 of standards

Emerging Topics in Radio Communications, Technology and Services

• Location-aware radio
• User-aware radio
• Non-radio sensors sharing RF apertures on radio devices (temperature, accelerometers, binaural microphones, directional sound projection) and related emerging integrated applications such as language processing, spatially discriminating microphones, machine learning, and biometrics integrating to provide a cognitive-radio class physical layer access agility