CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER (Open)

Title: Wireless Quality-of-Service: Techniques, Standards and Applications

(to be published by Auerbach Publications, Taylor&Francis Group)

Introduction

QoS service is becoming a very important and complicated issue in wireless network design as current wireless networks are achieving much more bandwidth through the physical layer improvements. With the broad bandwidth, it is possible for wireless networks to provide transmission services for different types of traffic, or multimedia traffic. Any type of traffic will have its unique quality of service requirement, which should be satisfied by the transmission network. This book is going to systematically address the QoS service issue in almost all types of nowadays popular wireless networks. The book addresses the QoS problems and discusses the techniques and applications, including a variety of standards. This book has the fundamental introduction on different wireless networks with mechanisms and the standards and standardization efforts, the QoS service frameworks specified in the standards and the recent research progress on the improvements of the performance of the QoS services in all the wireless networks.

Recommended Topics(not limited to)

§ QoS fundamentals
§ QoS definition, architecture and mechanisms
§ QoS support in mobile multimedia networks
§ QoS service in heterogeneous wireless networks
§ QoS service in Wireless Personal Area Networks
§ QoS service in Wireless LANs
§ QoS service in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks
§ QoS service in GPRS System
§ QoS service in UMTS System
§ QoS service in CDMA2000 System
§ QoS service in TD-SCDMA System
§ QoS service in B3G, 4G System
§ QoS service in Satellite System
§ QoS service in wireless ad hoc networks
§ QoS service in wireless sensor networks
§ QoS service in wireless mesh networks
§ QoS service in peer-to-peer networks
§ QoS service in overlay networks
§ QoS in IEEE 802.x families, e.g. 802.11, 802.15, 802.16, 802.20
§ Future research trend of QoS service in wireless networks
§ Call admission control
§ Routing, multicast
§ Mobility, security, resource management interaction to enhance QoS
§ Performance analysis, simulation and experiment
§ Channel assignment algorithm
§ Cross-layer optimization algorithms
§ Distributed/adaptive scheduling schemes
§ Test-bed, prototype, practical system and case studies

Important Dates

• 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.
• Deadline: 30, Nov. 2006
• Notification of proposal acceptance: 30, Dec. 2006
• Full chapter submission: 30, March 2007
• Review report received: 30, April 2007
• Final version submission: 30, May 2007

Manuscript Submission

• Set as double-spaced
• Estimated, each chapter should has about 20 pages in the typeset format; i.e. about 35-45 pages with double-space format.
• Name figure files consecutively (Fig001.eps, Fig002.eps, etc.). Do not use descriptive names.
• Do not embed figures; please add all the figures at the end of the document.
• Using the reference format as follows:
• \begin{thebibliography}{50}

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Author, Title, publication, publishing time;
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• Note: each lead chapter author will get a free copy of the book.

Contact

Please make correspondence and paper submissions to:

Dr. Maode MA
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Email: emdma <AT> ntu.edu.sg

Dr. Mieso DENKO
University of Guelph, Canada
Email: denko <AT> cis.uoguelph.ca

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