The ACM journal on WIRELESS NETWORKS, published in cooperation with
Baltzer Science publishers announces a special issue on,

        	 MOBILITY MANAGEMENT IN WIRELESS NETWORKS

with guest editors,

Prof. Christopher Rose		Prof. Ramesh Sitaraman
Director of Mobility Studies	Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University, WINLAB	University of Massachusetts, Amherst

	

OVERVIEW:

Our highly mobile society and its increasing demand for immediate
access to knowledge will require that future information networks
gracefully accommodate mobility of both users and services.  For
example, a particular user might wish to gain network access through
any number of different ports or connection media.  Likewise, a
network service might reside on one of many possible processors.
Under such a scenario, where both users and network services change
location, the distinction between the ``fixed'' and ``mobile'' network
blurs; all networks are mobile networks.

The overall costs of maintaining accurate location records are at
present only poorly understood.  However, recent work indicates that
simply for telephone traffic, the excess network signaling load
expense would be much larger than that required for classical fixed
traffic.  If migrant services and databases are included, the
aggregate signaling load can only be greater.  In addition, for
wireless systems, the relevant signaling events require use of radio
channels and such use must be minimized owing to the scarcity of
bandwidth.  Thus, either from the standpoint of modifying existing
fixed network signaling structures or designing wireless network
paging/registration strategies, it is important to understand,
quantify and devise methods for handling the impact of location
uncertainty on signaling.

SCOPE:

This special issue will concentrate on the problems associated with
acquiring and maintaining mobile unit location information in the
wireless environment.  A representative sampling of topics is provided
below:

	- Mobility modeling
	- Location prediction
	- Empirical measurements for user profiles
	- Location tracking and mobile network topology
	- Location tracking for handoff
	- Paging/Registration cost minimization
	- Multi-unit paging techniques
	- Performance Analysis of location management strategies


PUBLICATION SCHEDULE:


        MANUSCRIPT DUE: October 1, 1995
        ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: January 1, 1996
        FINAL MANUSCRIPT DUE: March 1 1996
        Publication Date: Summer 1996.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Authors should email an electronic Postscript copy of their paper to
winet_mobility@cs.umass.edu by October 1, 1995.  The editors will
acknowledge the receipt of the paper within a few days. Submissions
should be limited to 20 pages, excluding figures and references.  If
email submission is inconvenient, then six (6) copies of their paper
(double-sided if possible) should be sent by the due date to

	Christopher Rose
	P.O. Box 909
	Piscataway, N.J. 08855-0909

	VOICE: (908) 445-5250
	FAX: (908) 445-2820
	EMAIL: winet_mobility@cs.umass.edu


We look forward to your participation in providing a stimulating special issue
on an important topic.