CFP: IEEE Network Magazine: CfP on Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Dear TCCC members,

Co-guest editor Pravin Bhagwat, co-guest editor Nada Golmie and I are
putting together a special issue of IEEE Network on Wireless Personal
Area
Networks. We would like to invite you to consider this special issue to
submit some of the work you did in this area. The cfp can be found at
the
bottom of this note and also on-line at:

http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/special/wpan.html

Paper submissions should follow the IEEE Network guidelines outlined at:

http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/authors.html#Submission
Guidelines
*** Note your submissions need to be sent to any of the guest-editors of
the WPAN special issue. ***

Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
30 Saw Mill River Road, M/S H3-B34
Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA
tel#: +1 914 784 7439
fax#: +1 914 784 6225
e-mail: bisdik@us.ibm.com

------------------- CfPs: IEEE Network: WPANs ------------------

Call For Papers
IEEE Network Magazine

Wireless Personal Area Network

Guest Editors:

Chatschik Bisdikian
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY 10532
Phone: (914) 784-7439
Fax: (914) 784-6205
Email:bisdik@us.ibm.com

Pravin Bhagwat
AT&T Labs Research
180 Park Ave. P.O. Box 971
Florham Park, NJ 09732
Phone: (973)-360-7374
Fax: (973)-360-8855
Email: pravinb@research.att.com

Nada Golmie
NIST - National Institutes of Standards and Technology
Bldg. 820
Gathersburg, MD 20899
Phone: (301) 975-4190
Fax: (301) 590-0932
Email: nada.golmie@nist.gov

Scope:

To facilitate "unconscious" communications among personal devices, a new
breed of wireless communications technologies is emerging that would
enable
devices to connect easily and with little, if at all, intervention from
their user through standardized air-interfaces. These wireless personal
area network (WPAN(tm)) communication technologies differ from other
more
traditional wireless or wired LAN technologies. WPANs target primarily
the
vast consumer market and are used for ease-of-connectivity of personal
wearable or handheld devices. WPANs are thus optimized for low
complexity,
low power, small footprint, low cost, and so on.

Communication solutions for WPANs should not interfere with the primary
function of the personal device that they are part of. They should not
affect their form factor, and have minimum impact on the cost and power
consumption of the personal device. WPANs have small coverage, typically
about 10m, and allow only a limited number of devices in a WPAN. WPANs
should be able to be created spontaneously and on as needed basis, they
should require little configuration to setup, interoperate with
established
networks or in isolation, legacy applications shall operate similarly in
both a wired or wireless mode, they shall also provide for trusted and
secure modes of operation permitting groups of personal devices to
connect
easily while excluding connectivity to other devices. WPANs, just like
wireless LANs, operate on license-free radio frequencies (e.g., ISM
bands)
and, thus, need to coexist with other radio technologies that make use
of
these frequencies.

Focusing primarily on layer 2 and above, with this call for papers, we
solicit original
research and tutorial papers that address various aspects of WPANs
including:

- modeling and analysis of MAC protocols supporting data and
delay-sensitive services for WPAN usage scenarios
- lightweight WLAN (including 802.11, HomeRF, etc.) MACs for WPAN usage
- Bluetooth(tm) wireless technology, IEEE 802.15
- spontaneous (zero-configuration) network creation
- supporting IP communications over spontaneously created simple,
single-hop WPANs in isolation or tethered to established/infrastructure
networks
- hand-off protocols among tethered WPANs
- coexistence between WPANs and WLANs
- service discovery in WPAN environments
- security and creation of trust relations with other devices
- low-power system architectures and power aware protocols for WPANs
- system architectures for accessing data services over wired and
wireless
bearer
- technologies via networks of personal devices

Manuscript Submission:

This special issue will only consider electronic submissions in the
format
of postscript, PDF, or MS WORD. To submit a paper for consideration,
authors should *send your paper to one of the guest editors via email.*
The
paper should be included as an email attachment, or the author may
provide
a URL where the file can be downloaded. Indicate which author is to
serve
as the primary correspondence contact. Provide a contact list for all of
the other authors. Please list affiliations, mailing addresses,
phone/fax
numbers, and email addresses.

We will provide an acknowledgment of receipt of the paper within 24
hours
of submission.

Schedule:

Submission Deadline:           February 20, 2001
Acceptance Notification:       May 10, 2001 (*)
Final Manuscripts:             July 1, 2001
Publication of Special Issue:  September/October 2001

(*) Authors of papers submitted that are judged to fall outside the
objectives of this special issue may be notified earlier.