Call for Papers IP Multimedia in Next Generation Mobile Networks: Services, Protocols and Technologies Special Issue of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine <http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/> One of the most exiting and challenging aspects of next generation mobile networks is the provision of IP Multimedia services, similar to those recently emerged on the Internet. Currently, both in commercial and academic arenas, a great effort is under way to develop, test and standardize, the technologies that would enable the efficient, secure and cost-acceptable provision of IP Multimedia services in the next generation mobile networks. Such services would ultimately migrate the Internet to the wireless world and would satisfy the demand for sophisticated, valuable and user-friendly wireless IP services. Doubtless, the advanced radio technology of third-generation (3G) systems is the leading technology that paved the way to the mobile multimedia era. However, the advanced radio technology alone is not sufficient to provide true multimedia services. In fact, when considering a mobile IP multimedia system, the radio technology is an important but, yet, a small part of the entire system. Other enabling technologies, such as, session management protocols, confidentiality and integrity protection schemes, end-to-end quality of service (QoS), traffic management, service control platforms, billing, etc. are also crucial components of a mobile IP multimedia system. This special issue is devoted to these components and aims at providing a comprehensive review of their recent and emerging development. In general, the main objective of this special issue is to address the Protocols and Technologies used in next generation mobile networks for enabling the IP Multimedia services. Additiona! ! lly, the Services themselves will be considered. In this context, papers are solicited reporting on representative topics, such as: * IP Multimedia Services on next generation mobile networks (such as VoIP) * Challenges and solutions for IP Multimedia services on next generation mobile networks * Architectures for IP Multimedia services on next generation mobile networks * IP Multimedia protocols (e.g. SIP, RTP, RTCP) and their deployment in mobile networks * Techniques for improving the efficiency of multimedia protocols in wireless environments * Interworking with the Internet and other multimedia architectures (such as H.324, H.321) * Interworking with legacy networks (such as PSTN, ISDN, GSM, etc) * Techniques for provisioning of QoS * Security threads and techniques for security provision * Service control platforms and interfaces * Video and metadata encoding schemes for wireless multimedia * Wireless multimedia applications * Standardization activities * Performance studies All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/pub_guidelines.html <http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/>. Electronic submissions in Postscript or PDF format are strongly encouraged and should be sent to Dr. Apostolis K. Salkintzis <mailto:salki@motorola.com> at the address indicated below. If electronic submission is not possible, please contact the guest editors. Time Schedule Submission Deadline: December 30, 2001 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2002 Final Manuscript Due: April 30, 2002 Publication Date: August 2002 Guest Editors Dr. Apostolis K. Salkintzis Global Telecom Solutions Sector Motorola 32 Kifissias Ave., Maroussi GR-15125 Athens, Greece Fax: +30-10-6810168 E-mail: salki@motorola.com <mailto:salki@motorola.com> Prof. Lazaros Merakos Department of Informatics University of Athens GR-15784 Athens, Greece Fax: +30-10-7275601 E-mail: L.Merakos@di.uoa.gr <mailto:L.Merakos@di.uoa.gr> <<CFP_IP Multimedia in Next Generation Mobile Networks.doc>>
CFP_IP Multimedia in Next Generation Mobile Networks.doc
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