Call for
Papers
Architectures and Protocols for Mobility Management
in All-IP Mobile Networks
Special Issue of IEEE Wireless
Communications Magazine
The success of next
generation mobile networks will rely much on the degree of seamless
mobility support among heterogeneous technologies. Seamless mobility
is a many-faceted challenge that needs to be addressed to alleviate
or eliminate today's restrictions on supported media, access
technologies, devices or vendors. As we move in this direction,
maintaining reliability, availability, quality of service and
security at optimal levels across different systems is extremely
important. Most modern mobile access technologies include advanced
mechanisms for the support of intra-system handover and mobility to
ensure seamless service provision. These mechanisms require proper
parameterization and real-time adjustment according to a large range
of traffic, QoS and channel conditions. On the other hand,
inter-system handover and mobility management across heterogeneous
networks are challenging problems that require efficient and reliable
interoperation of the various schemes deployed in the different
systems. Furthermore, simultaneous mobility must be supported, i.e.,
when both end hosts are mobile and they move at the same time, the
session should not be dropped (as may happen with Mobile IPv6).
Recent efforts are focusing on providing seamless handover and
service continuity among access systems through close coordination
with the QoS support and resource management mechanisms. Effort is
placed into architectures that integrate different access
technologies under a common IP backbone so that seamless mobility
support will exploit the benefits of each technology.
Several
standardization activities are currently underway by different
bodies. 802.21 is an IEEE emerging standard that aims at enabling
seamless handover between networks of the same type as well as
handover between different network types, also called Media
Independent Handover (MIH). The standard provides information to
allow handing over to and from several popular networks through
different handover mechanisms. 3GPP is defining mobility from
circuit-switched to IMS domain in the form of voice call continuity
(VCC) and seamless mobility between different packet-switched domains
belonging to existing and evolving 3GPP access networks and non-3GPP
access networks as a part of System Architecture Evolution effort.
This special issue will be devoted to the architectures,
protocols, and mechanisms for mobility management and seamless
handover support in next generation mobile networks. We seek
original, high-quality and previously unpublished contributions, not
currently under review by another magazine or journal. Contributions
emphasizing recent advances and new research directions are strongly
encouraged. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Handovers in IEEE 802.16e
- Handovers in
Evolved UMTS
- Comparison between 3GPP and IETF MM
protocols
- Mobility between 3GPP and non-3GPP radio access
networks
- Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6)
- Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Mobility Management (HMIPv6)
- Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 3G, WMANs and WLANs
- Mobility Management using Proxy Mobile
IPv4/v6
- Localized Mobility Management
- Simultaneous
mobility support (when both end hosts are mobile)
- Architectures and protocols for mobility management in
heterogeneous environments
- Seamless intraand inter-system
handover
- Media Independent Handovers (IEEE 802.21)
- Security issues / solution in mobility management
- Inter-domain mobility: AAA and other architectures and
protocols
All submissions should adhere to the style of
IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Guidelines for prospective
authors can be found on-line at http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/.
Electronic submissions in Postscript or PDF format are strongly
encouraged and should be sent to one of the Guest Editors at the
addresses indicated below. If electronic submission is not possible,
please contact the guest editors.
Time Schedule
Manuscript Due: July 2, 2007
Acceptance
Notification: Oct. 15, 2007
Final Manuscript Due: Dec. 17,
2007
Planned Publication Date: April 2008
Guest Editors
Nikos Passas
Department of
Informatics & Telecommunications
University of Athens
GR-15784
Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-210-7275651
E-mail: passas@di.uoa.gr
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Apostolis K.
Salkintzis
Motorola
32
Kifissias Ave.
GR-15125 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-210-8172335
E-mail: salki@motorola.com
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Daniel Wong
Assistant Professor
Malaysia
University of Science and Technology
GL33, Block C, Kelana Square,
17 Jalan SS 7/26
47301 PJ, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel: +603 7880
1777x282
Email: dwong@must.edu.my
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Vijay Varma
Telcordia Technologies
331
Newman Springs Road
Red Bank, NJ 07701,
USA
Tel: +1 732-758-2811
Email: vvarma@telcordia.com
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