IEEE Wireless Comm. Mag. Special issue on "Architectures and Protocols for Mobility Management in All-IP Mobile Networks"

Call for Papers

IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine

Special Issue on "Architectures and Protocols for Mobility Management in
All-IP Mobile Networks"

The success of next generation mobile networks will rely much on the degree
of seamless mobility support among heterogeneous technologies. Seamless
mobility is a many-faceted challenge that needs to be addressed to
alleviate
or eliminate today's restrictions on supported media, access technologies,
devices or vendors. As we move in this direction, maintaining reliability,
availability, quality of service and security at optimal levels across
different systems is extremely important. Most modern mobile access
technologies include advanced mechanisms for the support of intra-system
handover and mobility to ensure seamless service provision. These
mechanisms
require proper parameterization and real-time adjustment according to a
large range of traffic, QoS and channel conditions. On the other hand,
inter-system handover and mobility management across heterogeneous networks
are challenging problems that require efficient and reliable interoperation
of the various schemes deployed in the different systems. Furthermore,
simultaneous mobility must be supported, i.e., when both end hosts are
mobile and they move at the same time, the session should not be dropped
(as
may happen with Mobile IPv6). Recent efforts are focusing on providing
seamless handover and service continuity among access systems through close
coordination with the QoS support and resource management mechanisms.
Effort
is placed into architectures that integrate different access technologies
under a common IP backbone so that seamless mobility support will exploit
the benefits of each technology. Several standardization activities are
currently underway by different bodies. 802.21 is an IEEE emerging standard
that aims at enabling seamless handover between networks of the same
type as
well as handover between different network types, also called Media
Independent Handover (MIH). The standard provides information to allow
handing over to and from several popular networks through different
handover
mechanisms. 3GPP is defining mobility from circuit-switched to IMS
domain in
the form of voice call continuity (VCC) and seamless mobility between
different packet-switched domains belonging to existing and evolving 3GPP
access networks and non-3GPP access networks as a part of System
Architecture Evolution effort.

This special issue will be devoted to the architectures, protocols, and
mechanisms for mobility management and seamless handover support in next
generation mobile networks. We seek original, high-quality and previously
unpublished contributions, not currently under review by another
magazine or
journal. Contributions emphasizing recent advances and new research
directions are strongly encouraged. Areas of interest include, but are not
limited to:
- Handovers in IEEE 802.16e
- Handovers in Evolved UMTS
- Comparison between 3GPP and IETF MM protocols
- Mobility between 3GPP and non-3GPP radio access networks
- Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6)
- Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Mobility Management (HMIPv6)
- Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 3G, WMANs and WLANs
- Mobility Management using Proxy Mobile IPv4/v6
- Localized Mobility Management
- Simultaneous mobility support (when both end hosts are mobile)
- Architectures and protocols for mobility management in heterogeneous
environments
- Seamless intra- and inter-system handover
- Media Independent Handovers (IEEE 802.21)
- Security issues / solution in mobility management
- Inter-domain mobility: AAA and other architectures and protocols

All submissions should adhere to the style of IEEE Wireless Communications
Magazine. Guidelines for prospective authors can be found on-line at
http://www.comsoc.org/~pci/. Electronic submissions in Postscript or PDF
format are strongly encouraged and should be sent to one of the Guest
Editors at the addresses indicated below. If electronic submission is not
possible, please contact the guest editors.

Time Schedule
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Manuscript Due: July 2, 2007
Acceptance Notification: Oct. 15, 2007
Final Manuscript Due: Dec. 17, 2007
Planned Publication Date: April 2008

Guest Editors:
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Nikos Passas
Department of Informatics & Telecommunications
University of Athens
GR-15784 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-210-7275651
E-mail: passas@di.uoa.gr

Apostolis K. Salkintzis
Motorola
32 Kifissias Ave.
GR-15125 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30-210-8172335
E-mail: salki@motorola.com

Daniel Wong
Assistant Professor
Malaysia University of Science and Technology
GL33, Block C, Kelana Square, 17 Jalan SS 7/26
47301 PJ, Selangor, Malaysia
Tel: +603 7880 1777x282
Email: daniel_wong@ieee.org

Vijay Varma
Telcordia Technologies
331 Newman Springs Road
Red Bank, NJ 07701, USA
Tel: +1 732-758-2811
Email: vvarma@telcordia.com

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