Subject: [manet] Call for Book Chapter: Unlicensed Mobile Access Technology: Protocols, Architectures, Security, Standards and Applications

From: "Yan ZHANG" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:00:11 +0100

We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP
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CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER

Title: Unlicensed Mobile Access Technology: Protocols, Architectures,
Security, Standards and Applications

(to be published by Auerbach Publications, Taylor&Francis Group
http://www.crcpress.com/)

http://home.simula.no/~yanzhang/UMACFP.html

Introduction
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UMA technology targets to provide seamless access to GSM and GPRS mobile
services networks over unlicensed spectrum technologies, including Bluetooth
and Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11); and possibly emerging WiMAX (IEEE 802.16). With a
dual-mode enable mobile terminal, a subscriber is able to roam freely and
seamless handoff between cellular networks and unlicensed wireless networks.
With intelligent horizontal and vertical handoff technologies in UMA,
subscribers receive voice and data service continuously, smoothly and
transparently. To achieve these aims, there still exist a number of
technical challenges. Mobility management is one of the most important
issues to address. Vertical and horizontal handoff algorithms shall be
intelligently designed to adapt to heterogeneous wireless environments. In
addition, guaranteeing Quality-of-Service (QoS) during movement and handoff
is also of great importance in order to satisfy subscribers' requirements.
Furthermore, Software Defined Radio (SDR) or Cognitive Radio (CR) is a key
enabling technology for the success of UMA.

Recommended Topics(not limited to)
==================================
UMA technology
Location management in UMA
Authentication in UMA
Handoff in UMA
Heterogeneous wireless networks
End-to-end QoS architecture
Mobility management architecture
Security architecture
Mesh/Relay networks
Horizontal and vertical handoff
QoS provisioning
Resource management
MAC protocol
Scheduling
Congestion control
Routing in mesh/relay networks
Dynamic channel assignment algorithms
Coss-layer optimization
Techniques for capacity, connectivity and range extension
Mobility management
Distributed and cooperative algorithms
Trustworthy networks
Authentication and privacy
Fault tolerance, anomaly detection and error recovery schemes
Security in UMA
Security in Wireless PAN (Bluetooh)
Security in Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi, IEEE 802.11)
Security in Wireless MAN (WiMAX, IEEE 802.16)
Standardization activities in UMA, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11, 802.16
Cognitive radio wireless network
Software defined radio
Testbed, prototype, practical system for UMA with performance evaluation via
analysis, simulation and experiment

Important Dates
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You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal discribing the topic of your
chapter. The proposal should include the chapter organization, number of
pages of the final manuscript and contact authors.
Proposal Deadline: 28, Feb. 2007
Notification of proposal acceptance: 30, Mar. 2007
Full chapter submission: 30, Jun. 2007
Review report received: 30, Aug. 2007
Final version submission: 30, Oct. 2007

****Note: each lead chapter author will get a free copy of the book.****

Manuscript Submission
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*Set as double-spaced
*Estimated, each chapter should has about 15 pages in the typeset format;
i.e. about 30 pages with double-space format.

***Note: each lead chapter author will get a free copy of the book.

Contact
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Please make correspondence and paper submissions to:

Dr. Yan ZHANG
Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Email: yanzhang <AT> ieee.org

Dr. Laurence T. Yang
St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Email: lyang <AT> stfx.ca

Dr. Jianhua Ma
Hosei University, Japan
Email: jianhua <AT> hosei.ac.jp

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