Call for Papers

For the new journal published in cooperation with the ACM:

WIRELESS NETWORKS

Special Issue: Routing in Mobile Communications Networks

Scope:

Routing in communications networks may be characterized as
transporting information from a source to one or more destinations, so
as to meet the service requirements for that information.  In the
context of mobile wireless communications, the routing problem affects
all multi-hop mobile networks including cellular networks, packet
radio networks, and satellite networks.  Wireless networks with mobile
components, including mobile switching nodes as well as end nodes,
compound the routing problem with frequent changes in network topology
and link quality.  Mobile network topology and link quality may be
deterministic, as in satellite constellations providing world-wide
personal communications services, or it may be highly unpredictable,
as in tactical packet radio networks.  Furthermore, there is now
demand for support of real-time multimedia applications, in addition
to phone calls and paging, over mobile wireless networks.  Maintaining
uninterrupted high-quality service for distributed applications in the
presence of highly mobile switching and end nodes requires solving a
challenging set of routing-related problems.

For this special issue, we seek papers that provide solutions to
one or more of these problems, including but not limited to the
following:
- Mobile end node location tracking and prediction, emphasizing the
  costs and benefits of maintaining up-to-date location information.
- Mobile network topology discovery mechanisms.
- Seamless handover of routes and connections in highly mobile
  environments.
- Route selection accounting for quality of service requirements
  in mobile wireless networks.
- Routing across interconnected fixed and mobile networks.
- Interactions among routing, flow control, and resource allocation
  in mobile wireless networks.
- Multicast distribution in mobile networks.
- Scalable routing in very large mobile networks.

Extensions to existing routing schemes as well as new approaches to
mobile network routing are of interest.  The papers should describe
the problems to be solved, including the nature of the mobile
networking environment in which the problems occur, the solutions to
the problems posed, and the cost/benefit tradeoffs of the proposed
solutions.

The authors should send 6 copies of their paper to one of the guest
editors by 1 April 1995. The following time-table shall be followed:

	Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 April 1995
	Acceptance Notification: 1 June 1995
	Final Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 August 1995
	Publication Date: December 1995.

Guest Editors:

Martha Steenstrup
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
10 Moulton Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: (617) 873-3192
Facsimile: (617) 873-3776 
Internet: msteenst@bbn.com

Ram Ramanathan
Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.
10 Moulton Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Telephone: (617) 873-2736
Facsimile: (617) 873-3776 
Internet: ramanath@bbn.com