Call for Papers of Special Issue

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

"Technologies On Future Converged Wireless And Mobility Platform"

In the future wireless and mobility service provision will be characterized by global mobile access (terminal and personal mobility), high quality of services (full coverage, intelligible, no drop and no/lower call blocking and latency), and easy and simple access to multimedia services for voice, data, message, video, world-wide web, GPS, etc. via one user single terminal.

This vision from the user perspective can be implemented by integration of these different evolving and emerging wireless access technologies in a common flexible and expandable platform to provide a multiplicity of possibilities for current and future services and applications to users in a single terminal. Systems of 4G mobile will mainly be characterized by a vertical communication model, where different access technologies as cellular, cordless, WLAN type systems, short range wireless connectivity and wired systems will be combined on a common platform to complement each other in an optimum way for different service requirements and radio environments which is technically called "Converged Broadband Wireless and Mobility Platform (WMP), or Open Wireless Architecture (OWA)."

Since 2002, WMP/OWA has become one of the hottest research topics in the field. The objective of this special issue is to gather the research and development papers in this field and present an overview of the-state-of-the-art of this open and converged wireless technologies - globally or locally, as well as perspectives on future development in order to promote future research and educational activities. Original contributions focusing at higher layers of the 4G-OWA network protocol stack, etc are invited on recent research and development of WMP/OWA services and systems such as converged mobility platform, service-oriented infrastructure, service convergence layer, open OS platform, common base-band processing, etc. The topics of interest within the scope of this issue include (but are not limited to) the following:

This special issue is very timely and significant because converged wireless/mobility systems and services are becoming the driving solution for next generation wireless and mobile communications, especially ITU WRC'2007 will announce officially the post IMT2000 project where is well expected to focus on open converged platform architecture. In addition, open wireless and mobility platform to support various standards and modes are becoming the industrial trends on the worldwide basis.

Schedule For Submissions

Manuscript Submission:      July 15, 2006
Acceptance Notification:     Nov 15, 2006
Final Manuscript Due:     Jan 15, 2007
Publication:     April 2007

Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. However, papers presenting original contributions will also be considered, as long as the presentation is accessible and the paper length is kept within the appropriate limits. Articles should not exceed 4500 words. Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. For manuscript submission, authors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine manuscript format described in the "Information for Authors" at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. Prospective authors should submit the all-in-one PDF version of their complete manuscripts (which should be compressed if the file size exceeds 1 MB) via email to Prof. Lu at lu@cwc.us before July 15, 2006.

Special Issue Guest Editors

Prof. Willie W. Lu, Principal Editor
Director, U.S. Center for Wireless Communications, USA
P.O. Box 19789, Stanford University, CA 94309, USA
E-mail: lu@cwc.us

Dr. Kai Miao, Intel Corporation, USA
E-mail: kai.miao@intel.com

Dr. Stephane H. Maes, Oracle Corporation, USA
E-mail: stephane.maes@oracle.com

Prof. Ping Zhang, Beijing University of Post & Telecom, China
E-mail: zhangp@bupt.edu.cn