-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP on Applications and Services for the B3G/4G era Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:29:51 +0300 (EEST) From: zahariad@ellemedia.com To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

Apologies for multiple reception of this CFP. You may also go to: http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/cfpwireless1004.pdf

Best Regards, Theodore Zahariadis

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IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine Special Issue on Applications and Services for the B3G/4G era

The path towards 4G networks incorporates a number of critical trends. Operators have already made huge investments in 2G, 2G+ and 3G technologies. Moreover, future wireless infrastructures will have to compete with multiple successfully deployed wired and wireless communications' systems. Thus, the 4G era has to provide really break-through technologies in order to persuade for its necessity. Innovations in air interface technology, enhancements in signalling and transport protocols, end-to-end QoS, worldwide seamless mobility of terminals and personal bubbles will lead to next generation wireless networks. Research on all these areas has been initiated, and it is expected to provide impressive results in a couple of years. Besides the system and network infrastructure advances, innovative steps are also required in the applications and services domain. Evolution towards 4G is expected to be similar to what happened to the Internet: from a limited application environment to an integral part of average person's life. Wireless services will shift from voice to packet data and users will become more accustomed to conducting wireless business and financial transactions. Many future wireless applications have already been considered. Mobile Internet, mobile multiparty videoconference, mobile office, mobile VPNs, mobile tele-presence, mobile e-commerce, etc. are among the foreseen future applications, but none has already convinced that it is the "killer" one. This special issue of IEEE Wireless Communications aims to describe the future service creation, execution and provisioning environments, frameworks and platforms, trends in the direction towards new added value applications and services, applications and services that will enable new business models and new ways of working anywhere, anytime and in any context, and share this vision with the magazines' audience. In more details, this special issue seeks unpublished papers in that tackle the following areas: · Applications and services for mobile users and professionals · Interoperable mobile/ wireless technologies and convergence of fixed and mobile communication infrastructures. · Open, context and location aware middleware for heterogeneous mobile networks · Service creation environments for B3G/4G mobile/wireless systems · Innovative, adaptive and self-configuring mobile and wireless applications · Adaptive, polymorphic and reconfigurable systems for mobile environments · Applications for mobile PANs · End-to-end QoS issues for heterogeneous mobile networks · Security and privacy of mobile/wireless systems · Power management and control algorithms Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts as a Postscript or PDF email attachment to Dr. Theodore Zahariadis, highlighting the reference author of the paper. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in: http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/pci/index.html Schedule: Paper submission deadline: February 2, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2004 Final papers: July 30, 2004 Special issue: October 2004 Guest Editors: Theodore Zahariadis, Ellemedia Technologies, Greece (zahariad@ellemedia.com) Bharat Doshi, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Labs, USA(bharat.doshi@jhuapl.edu) _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@cs.columbia.edu http://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/tccc