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Call for Papers for Special Issue on

Service-Oriented Broadband Wireless Network Architecture IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

In the past few years, broadband wireless networks have been very attractive for providing broadband access because of quick and cost-effective deployments. In addition to the features of high data rate and large coverage, broadband wireless networks also promise to rapidly provide broadband access to locations in the world's rural and developing areas where broadband is currently unavailable, as well as competing for urban market shares. Till now, most existing efforts have been focused the basic "access" capability. However, to successfully deploy and operate broadband wireless networks, a crucial issue must be addressed: "How to support a variety of services and applications within the broadband wireless networks?" For instance, there is an increasing need to efficiently support applications such as voice over IP (VoIP), video streaming, music downloading, IP TV and many others.

Apparently, existing "access-oriented" design may not be the good answer because of the following reasons. (1) Efficiency: Existing design may not be able to fully exploit the potential of wireless networks because a customer always needs to connect to an access point, which is very likely a bottleneck. (2) Quality of service: For many existing designs that are developed to gain Internet access, the customer may not be able to obtain the desired quality-of-service (QoS) because all services are provided by the Internet, which can only provide best-effort services in practice. (3) Incentive of the service provider: One critical issue that has been largely ignored is that the access-oriented design may not be fair to the service provider who develops the infrastructure, because the service provider can only earn the access fee, which is usually paid monthly and is relatively low compared to the deployment cost.

To address the above issues, the service-oriented design on the network layer has been proposed recently and has gained increasing interests from both the research and industrial communities. With such a momentum, there is an urgent need to better understand as well as to keep track of cutting edge research on the service-oriented broadband wireless network architecture. We plan this special issue to help address that need, as well as to help researchers looking to jump on the bandwagon. Therefore, the special issue will focus on recent advances as well as survey papers in service-oriented broadband wireless network architecture.

Scope of Contributions

The papers in this feature topic will focus on state-of-the-art research in various aspects of service-oriented broadband wireless network architectures. We solicit papers covering various topics of interest that include, but not limited to the following:

- Broadband wireless network services and applications - 3G LTE services and applications - WiMAX services and applications - Service-oriented wireless mesh network architecture - Cross-layer approaches for service-oriented broadband wireless networks - Theoretical capacity analysis on service-oriented wireless networks - Topology control for emerging multihop wireless networks - Routing for service-oriented wireless networks - Optimal scheduling and medium access control for broadband wireless applications - Service orientation and call admission control in broadband wireless networks - QoS provision through interconnected wired and wireless segments - Security in broadband wireless networks - Reliability in multihop wireless networks - Network coding and physical-layer network coding in broadband wireless networks

Articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. However, papers presenting original contributions will also be considered, as long as the presentation is accessible and the paper length is kept within the appropriate limits. Articles should not exceed 4500 words. Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. For manuscript submission, authors should follow the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine manuscript format described in the "Information for Authors" at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/pcm/sub_guidelines.html. There will be one round of reviews and acceptance will be limited to the papers needing only moderate revisions. Therefore, the quality of initially submitted manuscripts is very important. Prospective authors should submit the all-in-one PDF version of their complete manuscripts (which should be compressed if the file size exceeds 1 MB) via email to lukejie@ece.uprm.edu before December 1, 2008. The other important dates for this special issue are given as follows:

Important Dates

- Manuscript Submission: December 1, 2008 - Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2009 - Final Manuscript Due: May 15, 2009 - Publication: August 2009

Guest Editors

The contact information of the Guest Editors for this Special Issue is given below:

Yi Qian Advanced Network Technologies Division National Institute of Standards and Technology 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8920 Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8920 Tel: +1-301-975-5190 Fax: +1-301-975-6238 Email: yqian@ieee.org

Kejie Lu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 00681 Tel.: +1-787-832-4040 x3510 Fax: +1-787-831-7564 Email: lukejie@ece.uprm.edu

Sastri Kota Harris Corporation 1134 East Arques Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94086, USA Tel.: +1-408-990-8301 Fax: +1-408-990-8399 Email: skota@harris.com

Giovanni Giambene Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Università degli Studi di Siena Via Roma, 56 Siena, 53100, Italy Tel.: +39-0577-234603 Fax: +39-0577-263602 Email: giambene@unisi.it