IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on PCS Network Management

Guest editors:
Yi-Bing Lin				Kazem Shoraby
Dept. Comp. Sci. & Info. Engr.		Lucent Technologies
National Chiao Tung University		Bell Laboratories, Room 3K-334
Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.			101 Crawfords Corner Rd.
Fax: +886-35724176			Holmdel, NJ 07733  USA
liny@csie.nctu.edu.tw			Email: sohraby@lucent.com
					Voice: 908-949-0496
					Fax: 908-834-5906

Scope: 
Personal communications services (PCS) provide communication services 
anywhere, anytime, with anybody, and in any form. To implement these 
communications concepts, extremely sophisticated network management
which integrates many diverse technologies are required. This special 
issue focuses on the research and development of advanced PCS network 
management techniques. 
Concise, tutorially oriented reference of the state-of-the art or
original contributions related to the following topics are solicited:

- Small scale mobility (inter-system handover) management 
- Large scale mobility (roaming) management
- Security (privacy and authentication) management
- Multi-system interworking
- PCS database reliability
- Intelligent networks for PCS
- Network management for PCS data and multimedia applications 
- PCS transport network issues (Internet, PSTN, PSDN, ATM)
- Modeling of PCS network management (measurement, analysis, and simulation)

Authors are invited to submit postscript files of their papers to
liny@csie.nctu.edu.tw or sohraby@lucent.com.
Papers should not exceed twenty double 
spaced pages in length, excluding figures and diagrams. 

Submission deadline: October 25, 1997
Acceptance notification: February 25, 1998
Final manuscript due: April 25, 1998