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IEEE Systems Journal

A Special Issue on Broadband Access Networks

With the rapid growth of the Internet as well as the increasing demand for
broadband services, access networks have been receiving growing
investments in recent years. This has led to a massive network deployment
with the goal of eliminating the bandwidth bttleneck between end-users
and the network core. Today many diverse technologies are being used to
provide broadband access to end users. The architecture and performance of
the access segment (local loop, wired and wireless access networks,
and even home networks) are receiving increasing attenion for ensuring
quality of service of diverse broadband applications. Moreover, most
access lines will no longer terminate on a single device, thus
leading to the necessity of having a home network designed for
applications that transcend simple Internet access sharing among multiple
personal computers and enable multimedia support. Therefore, the access
network and its home portion have become a hot investment pool from both a
financial as well as a research perspective.

Various technologies have been reported for enabling the broadband access.
In the wired regime, optical access networks, most notably passive optical
networks (PONs), have received extensive attention recently as a more
advanced alternative against the legacy copper-wire access networks due
to the bandwidth enhancement and lower maintenance cost offered by optical
fibers. These types of networks, enabled by various optical networking
technologies, have been widely deployed around the world. In the
wireless regime, IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs have become ubiquitous as a
mean for broadband access in all hotspots. Other emerging technologies for
wireless metropolitan]area access, such as IEEE 802.16 WiMAX and
IMT-Advance, provide larger coverage, longer transmission distances, and
more quality-of-service (QoS) guaranteed connections. A convergence of
the wired and wireless technologies in terms of protocol/architecture
design, infrastructure deployment, and control & management, has created
another design dimension which leads to the future broadband access
networks. The resultant network will achieve hybrid optica-wireless
access and fixed mobile convergence (FMC) where the two types of networks
complement with each other.

The aim of this special issue is to present a collection of high-quality
research papers that report the latest research advances in broadband
access networks as well as the integration of optical and wireless
technologies, with a special focus on protocol design and service
provisions in such highly demanding network environments. We are
soliciting original contributions that have not been published and are not
currently under consideration by any other journal. Indeed, this is a
topic of growing importance and one that has not been featured in any
recent magazine or journal publication. In particular, some of key
topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

- FTTx and PON technologies
- WiFi and WiMax networks
- IMT-Advance/LTE-A (4G) radio access network architecture
- Integrated wired/wireless access networks
- Long reach Ethernet
- Deployment/standardization statuses

Guest Editors:

Prof Nirwan Ansari
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Prof. Pin-Han Ho
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo.

Prof. Vincent Lau
Dept, of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology.

Prof. Danny H.K. Tsang
Dept, of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology.

Tentative Schedule
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Manuscript submission: February 15, 2010
Acceptance notification: July 1, 2010
Final manuscript due: September 1, 2010
Publication date: TBD by EiC

Method of Submission
Authors please submit papers via Paper Central at www.systemsjournal.org

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