CFP: Special Issue of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine on Mobile
Systems and the Web
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Guest Editors:
Arvind Krishna, IBM T.J. Watson Labs
Anupam Joshi, CECS Department, University of Missouri

The information revolution that the pundits have been predicting seems
finally to be upon us. Instantaneous access to information, which has always
been dreamed of, is being realized today with the advent of the World Wide
Web. Browsing (surfing) the web is becoming an increasingly common activity
for computer users from all domains of life. A web browser probably
represents the most ubiquitous interface mechanism to computers today, in
terms of the number of people who are comfortable in using it. Web access
from mobile platforms would truly represent an example of ubiquitous
computing, realising the vision of computing anytime, anywhere and by
everyone. However, the reality is that HTTP is not a mobile friendly
protocol, and extremely wasteful of bandwidth. The current model of browsing
the web is also open to criticism along the same lines. In general, the
problems are one of resource constrained browsing platforms connecting to
the network via thin pipes that are prone to disconnection. To facilitate
web browsing from mobile platforms, it is important to understand these
limitations and devise techniques and methodologies which will help
alleviate these problems. The special issue will be devoted to articles
which describe such techniques. A representative list (not all inclusive) of
topics would include the following as they impact web browsing from wireless
platforms:

   * granularity reduction of multimedia data for wireless links
   * information location and filtering
   * prefetching and caching
   * delayed fetching
   * location dependent data
   * improvements in HTTP protocol
   * anticipatory caching

Submission Process
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Please submit six copies of your paper to either of the guest editors at the
address below. The paper may have upto twenty double spaced pages, excluding
figures.

Arvind Krishna
IBM Research
30 Sawmill River Road
Hawthorne, NY 10532

  OR

Anupam Joshi
Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science
201 Engineering Building West
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211


Date for Submission: Nov 1, 1997
Notice of Acceptance: March 15, 1998
Camera Ready Manuscripts due: Jul 20, 1998
Publication Date: October 1998