-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP-Special Section of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:48:36 +0200 From: Polychronis Koutsakis polk@telecom.tuc.gr To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

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Call for Papers Special Section on "Medium Access and Call Admission Control Algorithms for Next Generation Wireless Networks"

ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R)

Theme With the pervasive presence of mobile personal wireless computing devices, wireless communication technologies are rapidly evolving and influencing our daily way of life. The new wireless data and multimedia services that are added and supported on wireless networks alongside the traditional voice services pose formidable challenges to these networks in their effort to satisfy strict Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. These challenges are further exasperated by the inherent transmission impairments of wireless links (fading, noise) and user mobility.

To cope with the challenges related to supporting both the existing and the ever increasing new services, next generation wireless technologies will need to fine tune and/or incorporate new sets of traffic control procedures. This special section will be focusing on two such control procedures related to wireless medium sharing and network overload.

A well designed Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol reduces system costs by maximizing system capacity while successfully integrating different classes of traffic (e.g., voice, data, multimedia) and optimally allocating the limited radio channel bandwidth among them. Congestion control poses yet additional set of challenges to wireless network providers. Network congestion is difficult to resolve when real-time traffic, sensitive to both latency and packet loss, is present, without jeopardizing the QoS expected by the users of that traffic. Call Admission Control (CAC) is a strategy used to limit the number of call connections into the network in order to reduce network congestion, therefore enabling the system to provide the desired QoS to newly incoming as well as existing calls. The mobility of users adds challenging requirements to the Call Admission Control Mechanism. When mobile users change their point of attachment, the end-to-end path may be changed while they still expect to receive the same QoS. This implies that the new end-to-end path should also support the existing QoS (i.e., a reservation on the new path may be required).

Topics of interest This highly selective special section of the ACM MC2R aims at providing a state-of-the-art reference of the current research in the fields of Medium Access Control Protocols and Call Admission Control Algorithms for next generation wireless networks.

Previously unpublished, original papers of very high quality that are not currently under review by another conference or journal are solicited focusing on representative topics related to this special section, such as:

Medium Access Control Protocols and Transmission Scheduling Mechanisms. Call Admission Control and Traffic Policing Mechanisms for wireless networks. Channel Allocation. CDMA/TDMA wireless systems. QoS issues for multimedia traffic over wireless networks. Performance evaluation of wireless networks. Mobile service and QoS management. Wireless multimedia services. Handoff algorithms for mobility support. Protocols and algorithms coping with limited bandwidth and intermittent connectivity of wireless networks.

Important Dates Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2005. Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2005. Submission of final version: July 15, 2005.

Submission Instructions Prospective authors should submit their paper electronically to the email address of one of the three guest editors. All material submitted must be in PostScript or PDF format. If using PostScript, only version 2 or later should be used, and reference only Computer Modern or standard Adobe fonts (Courier, Times Roman, or Helvetica); other PostScript type 1 and type 2 fonts may be used but must be included in the PostScript file. Type 3 fonts should not be used as they reproduce poorly in the digital library and on many printers. Paper length should be the equivalent of no longer than 12 pages in MC2R format (two columns, 11pt font).

Guest Editors Prof. Michael Paterakis, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Email: pateraki@telecom.tuc.gr Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA. Email: bisdik@us.ibm.com Dr. Polychronis Koutsakis, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. Email: polk@telecom.tuc.gr

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