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CfP: IEEE Comm Mag Issue on Hybrid Services
Dear Colleague,
You will find hereafter the
Call for Papers for a Feature Topic Issue of the
IEEE Communications Magazine (http://www.comsoc.org).
We apologize in case you receive multiple copies of this Email.
With best regards,
The guest editors
CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE
Feature Topic Issue on The Provision of Communication Services
over Hybrid Networks (publication: July 1999)
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Submission deadline: January 5, 1999
Guest Editors:
Jean-Pierre Hubaux David Nagel
Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology, President, AT&T Labs
Lausanne
On leave at the Univ. of California, AT&T Labs
Berkeley, until January 9, 1999 295 North Maple Avenue
EECS Dept, 267 Cory Hall Basking Ridge
Berkeley,CA 94720 NJ 07920
USA USA
tel: + 1-510-642-9719 tel: + 1-908-221-2903
fax: + 1-510-642-2845
hubaux@diva.EECS.Berkeley.EDU dnagel@att.com
As society moves relentlessly into the information age, there is a growing
demand for seamless operation of services over hybrid networks.
By hybrid networks, we intend primarily the integration of the Public
Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) (including the
cellular networks) and the IP network. These two families of
networks have been designed with radically different objectives.
However, both of them are going to continue to exist at least for
a couple of decades. Both are growing at a breathtaking pace; the
PSTN is regaining momentum by leveraging on the high popularity of (mobile
and fixed) cellular networks, while the internet suite is now the dominant
technology for data communications. At the same time, we are witnessing
a dramatic evolution of the telecommunications industry.
This Feature Topic Issue is devoted to the architecture and
provision of services over hybrid networks. These services are
the ones now and soon to be offered to end-users by service
providers and network operators; we call them hybrid services.
Topics of interest include:
* Creation of hybrid services
* Deployment of hybrid services
* Operation and management of hybrid services
* Validation of hybrid services
* Middleware for hybrid services
* Network planning and dimensioning
* New hybrid services: access to Internet services from cellular
terminals, access to the PSTN from a mobile IP phone, hybrid call
centers,...
* Traffic control and performance issues related to hybrid services
* Security of hybrid services
* Billing of hybrid services
* Hybrid services involving other access networks (cable, ATM, WLANs,...)
* Mobility-related services
* Terminals for hybrid services
* Computer Telephony Integration services
* Partial replacement of telecom equipment by Internet technology
for the control and/or transport of voice services
* Dependability and scalability of hybrid services
Tutorial and survey papers will be considered for acceptance.
Research papers will be considered as well, provided that they are
understandable and informative for non specialists of the area covered
by this issue. Although the Feature Topic Issue is
essentially devoted to technical aspects,
prospective authors are also encouraged to address economic and/or
regulatory questions.
Submission, Approval, Review, and Acceptance.
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Authors are requested to send e-mail by January 5 to both guest editors,
giving a URL where the guest-editors
can review the article, preferably in HTML format with GIF artwork
(postscript or pdf format is also accepted).
Upon approval by the guest-editors, all feature articles will then
undergo a technical peer review consistent with other archival
publications. Potential authors may wish to consult the
author information and guidelines, which are given at
http://pubs.comsoc.org/ci1/
Articles for review should be in HTML or a common format easily read by
reviewers. Authors will send all files to an anonymous ftp site
provided by the guest editors. When an article consists of a collection
of HTML and GIF files, all internal links pointing to this file should
be relative.
Note: there is currently a call for papers for
a joint Feature Topic Issue of Internet IEEE Network
and IEEE Internet magazines on Internet telephony,
to be edited by Henning Schulzrinne. There are some commonalities
between the two Feature Topic Issues. However, the focus of each of them
is different, and appropriate coordination efforts will be made
to avoid overlaps.
Submission Deadline: January 5, 1999
Acceptance Notification: March 15, 1999
Final Manuscripts Due: May 1, 1999
Publication of Complete Feature Topic Issue: July 1999