[Tccc] CFP: Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special Issue on Advances in Quality and Performance Assessment for Future Wireless Communication Services

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Advances in Quality and Performance Assessment for Future Wireless
Communication Services

Call for Papers
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Wireless communication services are evolving rapidly in tandem with
developments and vast growth of heterogeneous wireless access and network
infrastructures and their potential. Many new, next-generation, and advanced
future services are being conceived. New ideas and innovation in performance
and QoS, and their assessment, are vital to the success of these
developments. These should be open and transparent, with not only
network-provider-driven but also service-provider-driven and especially
user-driven, options on management and control to facilitate always best
connected and served (ABC&S), in whatever way this is perceived by the
different stake holders. To wireless communication services suppliers and
users, alike the complexity and integrability of the immense, diverse,
heterogeneous wireless networks' infrastructure should add real benefits and
always appear as an attractive user-friendly wireless services enabler, as a
wireless services performance enhancer and as a stimulant to wireless
services innovation. Effecting the integration of services over a converged
IP platform supported by this diverse and heterogeneous wireless
infrastructure presents immense QoS and traffic engineering challenges.
Within this context, a special issue is planned to address questions,
advances, and innovations in quality and performance assessment in
heterogeneous wireless service delivery.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Performance evaluation and traffic modelling
* Performance assessments and techniques at system/flow level, packet level,

and link level
* Multimedia and heterogeneous service integration-performance issues,
tradeoffs, user-perceived QoS, and quality of experience
* Network planning; capacity; scaling; and dimensioning
* Performance assessment, management, control, and solutions: user-driven;

service-provider-driven; network-provider-driven; subscriber-centric and
consumer-centric business model dependency issues
* Wireless services in support of performance assessment, management, and
control of multimedia service delivery
* Performance management and assessment in user-driven live-access network
change and network-driven internetwork call handovers
* Subscriber-centric and consumer-centric business model dependency issues
for performance management, control, and solutions
* Simulations and testbeds

Before submission, authors should carefully read over the journal's Author
Guidelines, which are located at
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcn/guidelines.html. Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the
journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to
the following timetable:

Manuscript Due August 1, 2009
First Round of Reviews November 1, 2009
Publication Date February 1, 2010

Lead Guest Editor
* Máirtín O'Droma, Telecommunications Research Centre, University of
Limerick, Ireland

Guest Editors

* Markus Rupp, Institute of Communications and Radio-Frequency Engineering,
Vienna University of Technology, Gusshausstrasse 25/389, 1040 Vienna,
Austria
* Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Department of Communication Engineering, Tampere
University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 10, 33720 Tampere, Finland
* Andreas Kassler, Computer Science Department, University of Karlstad,
Universitetsgatan, 65188 Karlstad, Sweden

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