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Call for Papers of Special Issue IEEE Communications Magazine “OPEN WIRELESS ARCHITECTURE AND WIRELESS CONVERGENCE” IEEE ComMag Official Call-For-Paper Website In the future wireless service provision will be characterized by global mobile access (terminal and personal mobility), high quality of services (full coverage, intelligible, no drop and no/lower call blocking and latency), and easy and simple access to multimedia services for voice, data, message, video, world-wide web, GPS, etc. via ONE user SINGLE terminal. This vision from the user perspective can be implemented by integration of these different evolving and emerging wireless access technologies in a common flexible and expandable platform to provide a multiplicity of possibilities for current and future services and applications to users in a single terminal. Systems of fourth generation mobile will mainly be characterized by a horizontal communication model, where different access technologies as cellular, cordless, WLAN type systems, short range wireless connectivity and wired systems will be combined on a common platform to complement each other in an optimum way for different service requirements and radio environments which is technically called “Converged Broadband Wireless Platform, or Open Wireless Architecture (OWA)”. OWA defines the open interfaces in wireless networks and systems, including base-band signal processing parts, RF parts, networking parts, and OS and application parts, so that the system can support different industrial standards and integrate the various wireless networks into an open broadband platform. For comparison, Software Defined Radio (SDR) is only a radio in which the operating parameters including inter alia frequency range, modulation type, and/or output power limitations can be set or altered by software. Therefore, SDR is just one of the implemental modules of the OWA system. OWA will eventually become the global industry leading solution to integrate various wireless air-interfaces into one wireless open terminal where the same end equipment can flexibly work in the wireless access domain as well as in the mobile cellular networks. As mobile terminal (rather than wireline phone) will become the most important communicator in future, this single equipment with single number and multiple air-interfaces (powered by OWA) will definitely dominate the wireless communication industries. Fourth Generation (4G) mobile communication will basically focus on the Open Wireless Architecture, and Cost-effective and Spectrum-efficient High-speed wireless mobile transmission. The 3G system suffers tremendously worldwide because it did not fundamentally improve the wireless architecture, and making the architecture open is the final solution in the wireless industry. Since 2002, OWA has become one of the hottest research topics in the field. The objective of this special issue is to gather the research and development papers in this field and present an overview of the-state-of-the-art of this open wireless architecture technologies - globally or locally, as well as perspectives on future development in order to promote future research and educational activities. Original contributions are invited on recent research and development of OWA systems and networks such as converged wireless platform, common base-band processing, common transceiver system, open antenna array, software defined modules, common air-interface, integrated wireless terminal, etc. The topics of interest within the scope of this issue include (but are not limited to) the following:
This special issue is very timely and significant because open
wireless systems and networks are becoming the driving solution for
next generation wireless and mobile communications, especially ITU
WRC’2007 will announce officially the post-IMT2000 project where is
well expected to focus on open architecture. In addition, open
wireless platform to support various standards and modes are
becoming the global trends on the worldwide basis, as industries are
going together towards an open wireless architecture in next
generation wireless communications, and the wireless convergence and
integration is just rolling out everywhere across the global. SCHEDULE FOR SUBMISSIONS
Authors must follow the IEEE
Communications Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript and its
format. For details, please refer to the “Information for Authors”
at the Magazine website at:
http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html. SPECIAL ISSUE GUEST EDITORS Prof. Willie W. Lu, Principal Editor
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