CALL FOR PAPERS - IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE Feature Topic Issue on The Provision of Communication Services over Hybrid Networks (publication: July 1999) -------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: January 5, 1999 Guest Editors: Jean-Pierre Hubaux David Nagel Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology, President, AT&T Labs Lausanne On leave at the Univ. of California, AT&T Labs Berkeley, until January 9, 1999 295 North Maple Avenue EECS Dept, 267 Cory Hall Basking Ridge Berkeley,CA 94720 NJ 07920 USA USA tel: + 1-510-642-9719 tel: + 1-908-221-2903 fax: + 1-510-642-2845 hubaux@diva.EECS.Berkeley.EDU dnagel@att.com As society moves relentlessly into the information age, there is a growing demand for seamless operation of services over hybrid networks. By hybrid networks, we intend primarily the integration of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) (including the cellular networks) and the IP network. These two families of networks have been designed with radically different objectives. However, both of them are going to continue to exist at least for a couple of decades. Both are growing at a breathtaking pace; the PSTN is regaining momentum by leveraging on the high popularity of (mobile and fixed) cellular networks, while the internet suite is now the dominant technology for data communications. At the same time, we are witnessing a dramatic evolution of the telecommunications industry. This Feature Topic Issue is devoted to the architecture and provision of services over hybrid networks. These services are the ones now and soon to be offered to end-users by service providers and network operators; we call them hybrid services. Topics of interest include: * Creation of hybrid services * Deployment of hybrid services * Operation and management of hybrid services * Validation of hybrid services * Middleware for hybrid services * Network planning and dimensioning * New hybrid services: access to Internet services from cellular terminals, access to the PSTN from a mobile IP phone, hybrid call centers,... * Traffic control and performance issues related to hybrid services * Security of hybrid services * Billing of hybrid services * Hybrid services involving other access networks (cable, ATM, WLANs,...) * Mobility-related services * Terminals for hybrid services * Computer Telephony Integration services * Partial replacement of telecom equipment by Internet technology for the control and/or transport of voice services * Dependability and scalability of hybrid services Tutorial and survey papers will be considered for acceptance. Research papers will be considered as well, provided that they are understandable and informative for non specialists of the area covered by this issue. Although the Feature Topic Issue is essentially devoted to technical aspects, prospective authors are also encouraged to address economic and/or regulatory questions. Submission, Approval, Review, and Acceptance. --------------------------------------------- Authors are requested to send e-mail by January 5 to both guest editors, giving a URL where the guest-editors can review the article, preferably in HTML format with GIF artwork (postscript or pdf format is also accepted). Upon approval by the guest-editors, all feature articles will then undergo a technical peer review consistent with other archival publications. Potential authors may wish to consult the author information and guidelines, which are given at http://pubs.comsoc.org/ci1/ Articles for review should be in HTML or a common format easily read by reviewers. Authors will send all files to an anonymous ftp site provided by the guest editors. When an article consists of a collection of HTML and GIF files, all internal links pointing to this file should be relative. Note: there is currently a call for papers for a joint Feature Topic Issue of Internet IEEE Network and IEEE Internet magazines on Internet telephony, to be edited by Henning Schulzrinne. There are some commonalities between the two Feature Topic Issues. However, the focus of each of them is different, and appropriate coordination efforts will be made to avoid overlaps. Submission Deadline: January 5, 1999 Acceptance Notification: March 15, 1999 Final Manuscripts Due: May 1, 1999 Publication of Complete Feature Topic Issue: July 1999