The ACM/Baltzer Wireless Networks Journal announces a special issue on

	      Personal Communications

Scope: 
Personal communications provide communication services anywhere, 
anytime, with anybody, and in any form. To implement the personal 
communications concepts, extremely sophisticated systems which integrate many
diverse technologies are required. This special focuses on the research and 
development of advanced PCS technologies. Original contributions related to 
the following topics are solicited:

- Small scale mobility (handover) management 
- Channel allocation algorithms
- Large scale mobility (roaming) management
- Privacy and authentication
- Multi-tier system
- PCS database reliability
- Intelligent networks for PCS
- PCS data applications
- PCS backbone architecture (e.g., ATM)
- Local wireless network
- Wireless multimedia
- Mobile IP
- Modeling of PCS (measurement, analysis, and simulation)

Authors are invited to submit postscript files of their papers to
liny@csie.nctu.edu.tw or submit 6 copies of their papers to
Professor Yi-Bing Lin, Dept. Comp. Sci. & Info. Engr., National Chiao Tung 
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.  Papers should not exceed twenty double 
spaced pages in length, excluding figures and diagrams. 


Submission deadline: April 15, 1996 
Acceptance notification: July 30, 1996
Final manuscript due: October 30, 1996

Guest editors:

Yi-Bing Lin
Dept. Comp. Sci. & Info. Engr.
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Russell T. Hsing
Bellcore
MRE 2M199
445 South St.
Morristown, NJ 07960
trh@thumper.bellcore.com