Wireless technology provides infrastructures to link portable computers to corporate distributed computing systems and other sources of necessary information. The goal is to enable a multitude of users at any place access information from anywhere at any time. Efforts are also underway to explore new technology for wireless multimedia applications and personnel communication services (PCS) in a mixed wireline and wireless network environment. Clearly, the emerging field of mobile computing and communications has the potential to dramatically change the society as workers become untethered from their information sources.

Papers are solicited for a special issue of the Journal of Distributed Computing (JPDC) on Wireless and Mobile Computing and Communications, with particular emphasis on distributed computing with mobile communications capability. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• Mobile communications network architectures and protocols
• Bandwidth and tele-traffic hot spot management
• Data management and mobility management for wireless networks
• Synchronization and scheduling issues in mobile computing
• Wireless multimedia and quality of service (QoS)
• Performance modeling of wireless networks
• Parallel/distributed algorithms for mobile computing systems
• Highway and location independent information systems
• Applications of wireless and mobile computing and communications (distributed databases, wireless Internet and WWW, simulation of wireless networks, etc.)

Each submission must accompany a short abstract, names of authors and their affiliations (e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers), and a contact person for correspondence. Editorial decisions will be made by AUGUST 15, 1999.

GUEST EDITORS:

Azzedine Boukerche and Sajal K. Das
Center for Research in Wireless Computing (CReW)
Department of Computer Science
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 311366
Denton, TX 76203-1366, USA

Tel: (940) 565-2804, (940) 565-4256
Fax: (940) 565-2799
E-mail: boukerch@cs.unt.edu , das@cs.unt.edu