CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on

IP-based Mobile Telecommunications Networks

comet.columbia.edu/mobilecfp

Recent initiatives to add mobility to the Internet and packet data services to third generation cellular systems are being considered by mobile service providers as possible candidate technologies for the delivery of IP data to mobile users. Both of these candidate technologies have shortcomings, however. Mobile IP represents a simple and scalable global mobility solution but lacks support for fast handoff control, real-time location tracking, authentication and distributed policy management found in cellular networks today. In contrast, third generation cellular systems offer seamless mobility support but are built on complex and costly connection-oriented networking infrastructure that lacks the inherent flexibility, robustness and scalability found in IP networks. Future wireless networks should be capable of combining the strengths of both approaches without inheriting their weaknesses.

This special issue will address the on-going convergence of IP and mobile telecommunications in wireless networks. The development of IP-centric mobile telecommunications networks present a number of challenges that go beyond the existing capabilities of Mobile IP and third generation networks. A number of new initiatives have been addressing these challenges as well as proposing enhancements to EDGE and GPRS technologies to more readily support wireless IP services. For example, the IETF Mobile IP Working Group is responding to new requirements being placed on Mobile IP by cellular telecommunications companies. In addition, cellular telecommunications providers and carriers have established new forums (e.g., 3GPP, 3GPP2 and 3GIP) that are revisiting the design of third generation networks with the goal of enhancing IP mobility-related solutions to deliver seamless mobility without losing the cost effectiveness, application flexibility and transparency of IP technologies.

Suggested topics for this special issue on IP-based Mobile Telecommunications Networks include:

  • Extensions to Mobile IP in the context of Telecommunications Networks
  • IP-based Third Generation Mobile and Wireless Networks
  • Micro-mobility Architectures and Protocols
  • Wireless IP QOS
  • IP-based Services & Applications for GPRS, EDGE, 1xRT and other 3G technologies
  • Results and Reports from Experimental Wireless IP Systems
  • Security Issues, Authentication, Authorization
  • Pricing and Accounting Models
  • Use of Mobility and Mobile IP for Carrier and Enterprise Service Management
  • IP-based Control Architectures and Signaling

Submission

Submission Deadline October 15, 1999
Notification of Acceptance December 15, 1999
Final Manuscript January 15, 2000
Publication Date April 15, 2000

Research articles are solicited for review. All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at http://pubs.comsoc.org/pci/pub_guidelines.html. Please send PostScript or PDF formatted papers to campbell@comet.columbia.edu

Guest Editors

Kalyan Basu
Director, Systems Technologies
Nortel Networks
2201, Lakeside Blvd.
Richardson, TX 75082-4399
kbasu@nortelnetworks.com

Andrew T. Campbell
Department of Electrical Engineering
and Center for Telecommunications Research
1312 Seeley W. Mudd Bldg.
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027-6699
campbell@comet.columbia.edu

Anthony Joseph
Computer Science Division
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
adj@cs.berkeley.edu