CFP for IEEE JSAC issue on Ultra Wide Band Radio in Multi-Access Wireless Communications

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

CALL FOR PAPERS
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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Ultra Wide Band Radio in Multi-Access Wireless Communications

(http://www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/uwbradio.html)

The increase in mobile communications and user expectations for
diversified
wireless services led to the development of a variety of wireless access
systems. Considerable effort is underway to reconcile different
standards,
typically by using multimode terminals and interworking devices.
However,
this approach does not seem to have all the ingredients to make the
multiple existing and emerging mobile access technologies appear to the
user as a single, seamless and homogenous network. A possible way
forward
is the development of an open radio-access concept i.e., an access
network
which on the one hand is based on a versatile air interface, and on the
other hand is capable of satisfying different applications in different
radio environments, when combined with IP-based backbone networks.

Recent developments, known as Ultra Wide Band radio (UWB), suggest that
impulse radio technology, combined with time hopping spread spectrum and
other appropriate modulation schemes have the potential for scalable and
flexible multiple-access communications. The Ultra Wide Band radio
technique, which had been confined to radar and remote sensing
applications
for many years, has recently been proposed for wireless communications
systems.

Besides flexibility in the air interface, such open network paradigm
requires a corresponding redefinition of layers higher than the physical
one. In order to integrate heterogeneous mobile access networks, it is
necessary to break as much as possible the logical wires that still tie
mobile users to networks, and tend to ways of operating that are: i)
compatible with IP-based networks; ii) scalable; and iii) distributed.
The
resource management should provide an independent performance
calibration
("tuning knobs") allowing network operators to set target levels,
tailored
on user needs, on a unified IP-based access interface.

In order to release the full economic potential of mobile
communications,
it is deemed worthwhile to research possibilities, requirements and
performance of open mobile access technologies in the area of UWB and
related mobility and resource management schemes. We solicit papers with
a
variety of innovative solutions including, but not limited to:

- Regulatory issues and coexistence with traditional radio services
- UWB fundamentals (waveforms, codes) and components (generators,
detectors, antennae)
- Different approaches to implement UWB at the physical layer
- UWB channel characterization
- Error control and multiple access in UWB
- UWB resource and mobility management under QoS requirements
- Authentication and security strategies/procedures by exploiting UWB
capabilities
- Interworking of UWB radio segments with fixed networks under QoS
requirements
- UWB Geolocation and Sensing

PAPER SUBMISSION
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Original and unpublished research articles will be considered. Authors
should follow the IEEE-J-SAC manuscript format described in the
Information
for Authors. There will be one round of reviews only and acceptance will
be
limited to papers needing only moderate revisions. Prospective authors
should submit an online version (.pdf) of their complete manuscript,
according to the following timetable, to the address:
uwb@cs.ucla.edu


IMPORTANT DATES
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Initial Manuscript Submission: December, 1, 2001
Acceptance Notification: May, 1, 2002
Final Paper Due: July, 1, 2002
Publication Date: 4th Quarter 2002

Guest Editors

Nicola Blefari-Melazzi
University of Perugia,
Italy
blefari@diei.unipg.it

M. Gabriella di Benedetto
University of Roma La Sapienza,
Italy
gaby@acts.ing.uniroma1.it

Heinz Luediger
IMST GmbH, Kamp-Lintfort, Germany
luediger@imst.de

Mario Gerla
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA,
USA
gerla@cs.ucla.edu

Moe Z. Win
AT&T Labs - Research, Middletown, NJ,
USA
win@research.att.com

Paul Withington
Time Domain, Huntsville, AL,
USA
paul.withington@tdsi.com
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group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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