Announcement and Call for Papers Mobile Computing and Communications Review The official publication of ACM SIGMOBILE Volume 2, Issue 2 PUBLICATION PURPOSE ------------------- The wireless communication revolution is bringing fundamental changes to telecommunication and computing. Wide-area cellular systems and wireless LANs promise to make integrated networks a reality and provide fully distributed and ubiquitous mobile computing and communications, thus bringing an end to the tyranny of geography. Furthermore, services for the mobile user are maturing and are poised to change the nature and scope of communication. This publication serves to enhance the ability of ACM SIGMOBILE members to keep up-to-date in this rapidly moving field, as well as serve as a major focal point for the discussion of new directions of portable computation and mobile networks for both the research and market-driven communities. PAPERS ------ Technical papers describing previously unpublished, original, completed research, and not currently under review by another conference or journal are solicited on topics at the link layer and above. Topics will include, but are not limited to: * Applications and computing services supporting the mobile user * Network architectures, protocols or service algorithms to cope with mobility, limited bandwidth, or intermittent connectivity * Design and analysis of algorithms for on-line and mobile environments * Mobile network protocols * Performance characterization of mobile/wireless networks and systems; Network management for mobile and wireless networks * Data and power management in mobile computing * Service integration and interworking of wired and wireless networks * Characterization of the influence of lower layers on the design and performance of higher layers * Security, scalability and reliability issues for mobile/wireless systems * Satellite communications How to submit ------------- Paper submission will be handled electronically. Authors should Email a PostScript version of their full paper to: editors_sigmobile@acm.org Detailed submission instructions can be found on the MC2R web page: http://www.acm.org/sigmobile/MC2R Information on SIGMOBILE, including how to join, is available from: http://www.acm.org/sigmobile IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submissions due: November 15, 1997 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 1998 EDITORS ------ Victor Bahl Microsoft Corporation bahl@acm.org Charles Perkins Sun Microsystems Charles.Perkins@corp.sun.com Jason Redi Boston University redi@acm.org ADVISORY BOARD -------------- * Donald Cox, Stanford University, U.S.A. * Randy Katz, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. * Mischa Schwartz, Columbia University, U.S.A. AREA EDITORS ------------ Wireless ATM Dipankar Raychaudhary, NEC, U.S.A. Intelligent Network Signaling Jason Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Video Coding for Wireless Communication Bernd Girod, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Protocols for Wireless Networking David B. Johnson, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. Mobile Multimedia Communications Hamid Aghvami, King's College London, London, U.K. Wearable Computers and PDAs Dan Siewiorek, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. Mobility Management David Everitt, University of Melbourne, Australia Fault Tolerance in Mobile Networks Sampath Rangarajan, Bell Labs., U.S.A. Mobile Aware Applications Andy Hopper, University of Cambridge / ORL, U.K. Performance of Wireless Networks Khosrow Sohraby, University of Missouri, Kansas, U.S.A. Ad-Hoc Networks Ravi Jain, Bellcore, USA Satellite Communications Michel Bousquet, International Space University, France QoS and Integrated Services Mahmoud Naghshineh, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,USA FOR MORE INFORMATION -------------------- Please contact the editors of MC2R at editors_sigmobile@acm.org