Call for Papers

IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on

Evolution toward 4G Wireless Networking

Fourth generation (4G) wireless networks promise a much higher overall data throughput and much more diverse services than what current second and third (2G-3G) networks can do. All-IP wireless has emerged as the most preferred platform for 4G wireless networks. The design of future wireless networking architecture has to take into account the fact that dominant load in 4G wireless networks will be high-speed, content-rich, burst-type traffic, which has already posed a great challenge to all existing wireless networking technologies used in current networks. Many research activities are investigating the design of suitable architectures for 4G wireless networks, which are efficient, adaptive, flexible and scalable, that work harmonically with different network technologies (including legacy 2G, 2.5G and 3G networks) and accommodate heterogeneous networking applications. Additional research activities are investigating how to realize smooth migration and seamless interoperability between the legacy networks and future 4G wireless networks. It has been indicated that the architecture of 4G wireless networks should effectively address all the constraints and problems existing in the current wireless networking technologies, such as rigid network structure, low overall bandwidth efficiency, strictly interference-limited capacity, difficulty to perform rate-matching algorithms, lack of flexibility to implement cross-layer network design, etc. The research on the next generation wireless networking involves many cutting-edge research topics, such as cross-layer joint optimization design, quality of service assurance, dynamic network recourse allocation, ad hoc/mesh network routing algorithms, heterogeneous networking, cooperative network detection, vertical/horizontal network services integration, etc. This special issue will serve as a stimulus to educate about, promote and accelerate technological evolution toward 4G wireless networking.

The papers in this special issue will focus on state-of-the-art research in various aspects of 4G generation wireless networking technologies (excluding physical layer aspects). Specifically, within the aforementioned context in 4G networking, the special issue will present tutorials, survey and original research articles (written in a tutorial manner readable by non-specialists) that cover the following subjects:

Manuscript Submission
With regard to both the content and formatting style of the submissions, prospective contributors must follow the IEEE Network guidelines for authors that can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/net/ntwrk/authors.html. Submitted papers must be original and must not be under current consideration for publication in other venues. Authors should submit a PDF format of their complete papers via email to one of the Guest Editors.

Important Data
Manuscript Submission Due: May 15, 2006
Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2006
Final Manuscript Due: November 15, 2006
Publication: January, 2007

Guest Editors Hsiao-Hwa Chen
Institute of Communications Engineering
National Sun Yat-Sen University
Taiwan, ROC
hshwchen@mail.nsysu.edu.tw

Mohsen Guizani
Computer Science Department
Western Michigan University
USA
mguizani@cs.wmich.edu

Werner Mohr
Siemens AG
Com MN PG NT RA
Germany
werner-mohr@siemens.com