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Subject:    [Tccc] CFP of Special Issue on "Evolution of Air-Interface Technologies for 4G Wireless Communicatio
From:       "Dr. Daniel Wong" <daniel_wong () ieee ! org>
Date:       2006-02-22 13:59:47
Message-ID: 43FC6E53.1070604 () ieee ! org
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CFP of Special Issue on "Evolution of Air-Interface Technologies for 4G 
Wireless Communications", IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine

The future 4G wireless systems are widely expected to deliver a much 
higher data transmission rate and much richer multi-media contents than 
current 2-3G systems. All-IP wireless architectures have been emerging 
as the most preferred architecture for B3G wireless. The necessity to 
support high-speed burst-type traffic in wireless channels has already 
posed a great challenge to all existing air-interface technologies based 
on either TDMA or CDMA. Many research initiatives have been underway to 
investigate the issues on which type of air-interface technologies will 
be most suitable for 4G wireless. It has been indicated that the current 
CDMA-based air-interface technologies (for both 2G and 3G) are suited 
only for slow-speed continuous-transmission applications such as voice, 
but not a good choice for high-speed burst-type traffic. Therefore, more 
research initiatives are required to study next generation air-interface 
technologies that should effectively address all the constraints and 
problems existing in the current TDMA- and CDMA-based air-interface 
technologies, such as low bandwidth efficiency, strictly 
interference-limited capacity, difficulties in performing rate-matching 
algorithms, lack of flexibility to implement adaptive transceivers (for 
cross-layer network architecture), etc. The research on the 
air-interface technologies for 4G wireless involves many cutting-edge 
topics, such as novel CDMA codes/sequences design, time-frequency-space 
coding, interference-free CDMA architecture, multi-dimensional 
spreading, MIMO systems, OFDMA technologies, etc. This special issue 
will serve as a stimulus to accelerate technological evolution of next 
generation air-interface technologies for 4G wireless communications.
 
Topics
The papers in this Special Issue will focus on state-of-the-art research 
in various physical-layer aspects of next generation air-interface 
technologies suitable for 4G wireless. We solicit papers covering a 
variety of topics that include, but not limited to, the following subjects:
 
* Innovative SS/CDMA techniques
* All-IP wireless air-interface
* ST-coded TDMA/CDMA/OFDMA systems
* Air-interface Integration for WWAN/WMAN/WLAN/WPAN
* OFDM/OFDMA techniques
* Adaptive antennas, MIMO, and beam forming
* Hybrid OFDMA, CDMA, TDMA and FDMA
* Orthogonal codes/sequences design
* Complementary coded CDMA/M-ary CDMA
* Link adaptation and adaptive equalization
* UWB and pulse radio techniques
* WiMax technologies
* Cognitive radio/frequency agile radio
* Pilot-added CDMA/TDMA/OFDMA signaling design
* Transmission synchronization control
* Air-interface standardization issues

Papers should be of tutorial nature and contain state-of-the-art 
research and development materials. Authors must follow the IEEE 
Vehicular Technology Magazine guidelines regarding the manuscript 
format. For further information, please refer to IEEE Vehicular 
Technology Magazine website at http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtmagazine/. All 
papers should be submitted with email attachment (in PDF format) to one 
of the Guest Editors listed below.
 
Important Dates
Manuscript Submission Due: April 15, 2006
Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2006
Final Manuscript Due: August 1, 2006
Publication: September 2006
 
Associate Editor
Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun 
Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, hshwchen@ieee.org <mailto:hshwchen@ieee.org>
Guest Editors
Daniel Wong, Telcordia Technologies, USA, dwong@research.telcordia.com 
<mailto:dwong@research.telcordia.com>
Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Lab., Switzerland, pmu@zurich.ibm.com 
<mailto:pmu@zurich.ibm.com>

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