Future Wireless Communication Systems and Services

Call for Papers

Advances in software engineering for wireless communication networks and systems are emerging rapidly and in tandem with developments and vast growth of wireless services. Many new, next- generation, and advance future services are being conceived. The phenomenon of IP-based services delivered to mobile devices is likely to put pressure on the existing user-network business relationship. One specific perspective, which is missing in the current wireless telecom market today, is the one that reflects the user-centric view, in which the user (and his/her service) is put to the center of the networking problem, and thus the user is not one of many clients contending for a connection to the network, but the network operator is one of many providers that contend to satisfy the user's service. Service providers and wireless access network providers will need to rethink their techno-business models and reshape their focus towards services and applications that are independent and portable of the underlying access and transport networks. Users especially need to be fully facilitated in exploiting opportunities of being always best connected and best served (ABC&S). All these trends are likely to have a disruptive impact on the current telecom ecosystem calling for a more dynamic and flexible process of interaction between telecom business players towards a mutually beneficial proposition. This novel environment will create several new service access scenarios and benefits that are not currently available to mobile users, including greater service choice and service management capabilities, all of which require appropriate software engineering techniques, tools, and formalisms to support these activities. New ideas and innovation in communication software design, development, implementation, configuration, assessment, testing, optimization, maintenance, and reengineering are vital to the success of these developments. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Software architectures, patterns, and frameworks for future wireless communication systems and services
• Software engineering for smart mobile devices
• Open source software (OSS) methodologies and practices in future communications
• Future multimedia software applications
• Intelligent human-computer interfaces of the future
• Future distributed and heterogeneous communication applications
• Intelligent agents in future communication systems
• Adaptive and context-sensitive software of the future
• Middleware development for future wireless communication systems
• Smart cards software engineering
• Security, privacy, and safeness in software engineering for future wireless communication systems and services

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ase/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Máirtín O'Droma, Telecommunications Research Centre, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Guest Editors

• Hussein Zedan, Software Technology Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
• Stanimir Stoyanov, Department of Computer Systems, Plovdiv University, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
• Ivan Ganchev, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland