-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] ACM MONET Special Issue on SOFT RADIO-ENABLED HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:24:07 -0600 (CST) From: Dr. Hongyi Wu wu@cacs.louisiana.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu CC: Junshan.Zhang@asu.edu, wu@ece.ufl.edu, gcao@cse.psu.edu

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============================================================== ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue On SOFT RADIO-ENABLED HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS ===============================================================

********** Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2005 **********

With Guest Editors

Dr. Guohong Cao Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering The Pennsylvania State University TEL: 814-863-1241 FAX: 814-865-3176 E-mail: gcao@cse.psu.edu

Dr. Dapeng Wu Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Florida TEL: 352-392-4954 FAX: 352-392-0044 E-mail: wu@ece.ufl.edu

Dr. Hongyi Wu (contact) The Center for Advanced Computer Studies University of Louisiana at Lafayette TEL: 337-482-5779 FAX: 337-482-5791 E-mail: wu@cacs.louisiana.edu

Dr. Junshan Zhang Department of Electrical Engineering Arizona State University TEL: 480-727-7389 FAX: 480-965-8325 E-mail: Junshan.Zhang@asu.edu

With various network characteristics, a number of wireless systems have been developed over past years, targeting at different applications. While most of these wireless technologies are deployed independently for now, the service providers surely intend to own and operate overlaid heterogeneous wireless systems, which integrate multiple wireless technologies with partially overlapped coverage areas and provide ubiquitous network service to mobile users.

Recent advances in reconfigurable computing have greatly advanced the design of soft radios, which enable the communication with many different radios with only a reconfiguration in software parameters. The maturation of soft radio technology is becoming one of the most important milestones for seamless integration of the heterogeneous wireless network. Serving as the "glue", the soft radio technology has its niche in in two folds: (1) the network infrastructure can be built upon soft radio, where the base stations are tunable to different frequency bands and serve as general access points for various mobile hosts (MHs), e.g., cellular handsets, laptops, and PDA's (Personal Digital Assistants); and (2) the MHs may employ soft radio, and accordingly, get access to various wireless systems (such as wireless LAN, cellular, IEEE 802.20, and IEEE 802.16), providing ubiquitous service for mobile users. An important design issue is to capitalize on the recent achievement in soft radio technology for providing improved and more efficient connectivity and service in heterogeneous wireless networks.

With this special issue we aim at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions in this emerging area of soft radio-enabled heterogeneous wireless networks. We are seeking for papers reporting novel research or commercial/industrial experiences. These papers should be original, unpublished, and not currently under review by other conference, workshop, or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

- System optimization - Efficient spectrum allocation and management - Dynamic network topology discovery and optimization - Smart handoff and inter-system signaling - Quality of service in the heterogeneous networks - Routing and load balancing - Mobility management - System modeling and performance evaluation - Cognitive radio and testbed design

* PUBLICATION SCHEDULE:

o MANUSCRIPT DUE: March 1, 2005 o ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: May 31, 2005 o FINAL MANUSCRIPT DUE: July 1, 2005 o EXPECTED PUBLICATION DATE: First Quarter, 2006

* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Authors should email an electronic (Postscript or PDF) copy of their papers to Dr. Hongyi Wu, wu@cacs.louisiana.edu, by Feb. 1, 2005. Submissions should be limited to 20 double space pages excluding figures, graphs and illustrations. If email submission is impossible then six (6) copies of the paper (double-sided if possible) should be sent by the due date to:

Dr. Hongyi Wu The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) University of Louisiana at Lafayette P.O. Box 44330 Lafayette, LA 70504-4330 Tel: 337-482-5779

All submissions will be reviewed following the standard procedure.

--Hongyi ======================================================================== Dr. Hongyi Wu, Assistant Professor The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette P.O. Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-4330, U.S.A. Tel: 337-482-5779, Fax: 337-482-5791 E-mail: wu@cacs.louisiana.edu http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~wu ========================================================================

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