-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] Final Call for Papers Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:57:19 -0400 From: Ahmad, Aftab aahmad@nsu.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

*International Journal of Communication Systems*

/Special Issue on/

*_"QoS Support and Service Differentiation in Wireless Networks"_*

/Tentative Publication Date: April 2004 Full paper//s s//ubmission deadline: //01 November 2003/

/Reviews due: /15 January 2004 Camera-ready copies due: 15 February 2004

Wireless access technology has created a new dimension for user access over the past few years. This has opened up a number of issues, one of which is QoS. The rapid adoption of wireless and IP based applications has created a strong driving force towards ubiquitous data services. A common understanding of the next generation of wireless systems that will offer such services is that they will involve multiple technologies and concepts that are still evolving. A major challenge in this heterogeneous environment is to provide proper QoS for mobile and stationary users using both customized and access agnostic applications and the need to analyze latency as a function of traffic profiles. The goal of this Special Issue is to collect high-quality scientific contributions discussing QoS strategies and tradeoffs at the Physical, Data Link, Network and Transport layers, for both already deployed as well as innovative/emerging wireless technologies. Papers reporting original, unpublished results on following topics are solicited:

- Service differentiation and current enhancements in wireless LANs.

- QoS management and capacity optimization in multi-access, multi-service networks.

- Resource management for QoS-sensitive services.

- Local versus end-to-end QoS provisioning, including QoS issues in mixed cellular/WLAN environment.

- Software implementation and its robustness for QoS in wireless networks.

- Performance models for multi-class wireless networks with emphasis on latency, throughput and goodput for various offered traffic profiles.

- Architectures and Protocols for QoS provisioning in multi-access multi-service networks

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*Submission Instructions*

Only electronic submissions are welcomed. Please submit the PDF copy of the paper to one of the Guest Editors via email.

*Guest Editors (in alphabetic order)*

Aftab Ahmad Bu Sung (Francis) Lee

aftab@ieee.org mailto:aftab@ieee.org

EBSLEE@ntu.edu.sg mailto:EBSLEE@ntu.edu.sg

Computer Science Division of Computer Communications

Norfolk State University, VA, USA School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore

Giuseppe Bianchi

bianchi@elet.polimi.it mailto:bianchi@elet.polimi.it

Yu-Dong Yao

Electrical Engineering yyao@stevens-tech.edu mailto:yyao@stevens-tech.edu

University of Palermo, Italy Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department

Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Larry Berstein

lbernstein@worldnet.att.net mailto:lbernstein@worldnet.att.net

Computer Science

Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Gabor Fodor

Gabor.Fodor@era.ericsson.se mailto:Gabor.Fodor@era.ericsson.se

Ericsson Research, Sweden

Guy Pujolle

Guy.Pujolle@lip6.fr mailto:Guy.Pujolle@lip6.fr

Université Paris 6, France

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