The Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

 
Special Issue on "Reliable Transport Protocols for Mobile Computing"

 

Guest Editors:
 
Vassilios Tsaoussidis

Computer Science, Northeastern University

Boston, MA 02115, USA

Email: vassilis@ccs.neu.edu, Phone: 617 373 8169
Ibrahim Matta

Computer Science, Boston University

Boston, MA 02215, USA

Email: matta@cs.bu.edu, Phone: 617 358 1062

Scope:

Computer networks are rapidly evolving towards a physically heterogeneous but functionally integrated environment consisting of both wired and wireless components. Furthermore, battery-powered networked devices are becoming increasingly more common and mobile ad-hoc and wireless-sensor networks are receiving considerable attention. The issue of reliable data-transport over such networks poses many challenges, and calls for transport-layer solutions that are efficient (e.g., in terms of throughput, energy savings) and easily deployable (e.g., in terms of minimal changes to existing infrastructure).

This special issue seeks original contributions in the design, analysis and experimental evaluation of reliable transport solutions for networks with wireless links. Topics of interest include:

We are particularly interested in solutions that permit the transport layer to flexibly and efficiently adjust its control strategies to the individualized error characteristics (e.g., random errors versus burst errors versus congestion) of the underlying physical sub-networks. In addition, these control strategies may be energy-aware and/or energy-efficient, in support of battery-powered devices. We are also seeking solutions that require minimal changes to existing infrastructure. For example, these solutions may require changes to the server only, leaving (possibly millions of) clients unchanged. Or, they may require the introduction of proxies, leaving both servers and clients unchanged.

The guest editors encourage the authors to submit their manuscripts as an email attachment to one of the guest editors, or to provide a URL with a PDF or postscript version of their manuscript. Detailed instructions to authors can be found in www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1530-8669/authors.html

Schedule:

Submission Deadline: Dec 20, 2000

Notification of acceptance: March 30, 2001

Camera-ready papers: May 18, 2001

Publication: Nov/Dec 2001