CFP: IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Broadband IP Networks via Satellites

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

CALL FOR PAPERS

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Special Issue on Broadband IP Networks via Satellites

http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~abbas/CFP/IEEEJSAC-Sat2004.htm

Satellite systems have been an important element of telecommunications
networks for many years serving, in particular, long distance telephony and
television broadcasting. The involvement of satellite in IP networks is a
direct result of new trends in global telecommunications where Internet
traffic will hold a dominant share in the total network traffic. The large
geographical coverage of the satellite footprint and its unique
broadcasting capabilities as well as its high-capacity channel combined
with readily available Ka Band spectrum will retain satellite systems as an
irreplaceable part of communications systems, despite the high cost and
long development and launching cycle of a satellite system.
This issue of the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications is devoted to
the numerous research activities toward realization of the global broadband
Internet access via satellite networks. The issue aims to gather
state-of-the art technical papers outlining the research and progress in
the field of satellite IP in detail. The papers are solicited from key
industries involved in development of new satellite systems including those
involved in providing broadband Internet access to home and small business
users, DVB-RCS (Digital Video Broadcast - Return Channel System), in-flight
Internet systems, and other forms of Internet access through satellite as
well as from academia working on networking, mobility management, quality
of service, database management and caching, and physical channel.
Papers describing all aspects of realization of IP services through
satellites at all layers of the network stack are solicited. Specifically,
papers are solicited in the following areas, but not limited to:

- Emerging satellite systems and architectures
- Satellite role in 3G and beyond for wireless IP
- IP protocols for satellite
- Satellite routing management
- Location and mobility management for satellites
- Satellite network control and management
- TCP/IP performance over satellite 	
- Hybrid satellite and terrestrial networks
- Modulation schemes for satellite IP networks
- Satellite/terrestrial resource allocation algorithms
- Link performance models for satellite channel
- Reservation protocols for satellite access
- Internet services over satellite and in-flight Internet
- Standards status (ITU, ETSI, TIA, IETF, ?)

Submission

Manuscript Submission 	December 1, 2002
Acceptance Notification 	May 1, 2003
Final Manuscript Due		July 1, 2003
Publication 
		1st Quarter 2004

Prospective authors should prepare their manuscript in accordance with the
IEEE J-SAC format described in the Information for Authors. Authors wishing
to submit papers should send an electronic version (PDF format) to Abbas
Jamalipour at a.jamalipour@ieee.org according to the timetable given on the
left.

Guest Editors

Abbas Jamalipour
School of Electrical & Information Engineering
University of Sydney
Sydney NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA
Tel.: +61 2 9351 2843
Fax: +61 2 9351 3847
Email: a.jamalipour@ieee.org

Haitham S. Cruickshank
Centre for Commun. Systems Research (CCSR), School of Electronics,
Computing and Mathematics
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH,
UK
Tel.: +44 1483 686007
Fax: +44 1483 686011
Email: H.Cruickshank@surrey.ac.uk

Mario Marchese
CNIT - Italian National Consortium of Telecommunications
University of Genoa Research Unit
Via Opera Pia 13, 16145 Genova
ITALY
Tel.: +39 010 3532806
Fax: +39 010 3532154
Email: mario.marchese@cnit.it

Jason Neale
EMS Technologies
Space and Electronics Group - Canada
21025 Trans Canada Highway
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec
Canada, H9X 3R2
Tel.: +1 514 457 2150
Fax: +1 514 425 3016
Email: neale.j@ems-t.ca

Satchandi N. Verma
TRW, Satellite Communication Group
One Space Park
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
USA
Tel.: +1 310 812 1742
Fax: +1 310 813 4692Email: Satchandi.Verma@trw.com


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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
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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