[Tccc] (Submission deadline extended to 31 August 2012 - Firm) IEEE Communications Magazine: Feature topic on Telecommunications Standards
Tarik Taleb
talebtarikatgmail.com
Sun Aug 5 18:43:17 EDT 2012
Dear All
First of all, apologies for cross posting.
Due to many requests from potential authors, the submission deadline of the
following feature topic at the IEEE Communications Magazine has been
extended to 31 August 2012, which is a FIRM deadline.
http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/ci/cfp/cfpcommag0313.htm
Virtually all of the world's telecommunication systems have their roots in
research. Academic research and findings have helped system designers to
decide on the overall system architecture to the smallest details. Another
aspect that the telecommunication systems have in common is the need to be
well defined to guarantee interoperability between different devices. This
is possible only through standardization bodies. As a result research and
standards are clearly two vital components for the success of
telecommunications. Interestingly, communication between academia which
focuses mainly on research and industry whose main interest is
standardization is below a desirable level. Since research has so much to
offer and standards are the basic requirement for large scale deployment,
the natural question is how to bridge the gap between research and
standards.
Research and standardization activities are different in many respects.
Research typically is more forward looking and often does not necessarily
confine itself to problems such as deployment obstacles, security
considerations, manageability and other issues that are of primary concern
to people involved in standardization. Standards professionals typically
are cognizant of deployment and product issues and therefore more practical
in their approach. Often they are skeptical when confronted with research
work and reluctant to take on even the more short-term and practical
research findings. They are typically concerned about whether the research
has been adequately verified to work with the desired reliability outside a
laboratory environment in a large-scale network. It seems that there is a
gap between what the researchers consider the output of their work and what
the standards professionals consider to be the input to their work. For
that reason these two domains are often at odds and mutually complain about
the inability to see each other's point of view.
As a part of a global telecommunication community, it is important that
researchers and standardization experts work hand in hand. Researchers need
to understand the real-world limitations that standardization experts are
bound to in order to compromise enough so that their research work can make
it into standards. On the other hand, standardization experts need to
become more open towards research work and attempt to distill applicable
research output from
larger, more forward-looking research projects. This special issue
is therefore dedicated to research work which is already included
in standards and shows how it is achieved; current research work focused to
become part of a new standard or enhance an existing one, and works done to
make adoption by the relevant standards body likely.
The overarching aim is to document procedures, practices, compromises and
tactics that bring researchers and standards professionals closer together.
Collaboration is often difficult and documenting successful cases where
research results became the foundation of standards will benefit both,
researchers and standards professionals to more successfully collaborate in
the future. Original contributions, previously unpublished and not
currently under review, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not
limited to) the following standardization bodies:
ITU-T
IEEE
IETF
3GPP
TISPAN
ETSI
OMA
Broadband Forum
Prospective authors should follow the IEEE Communications
Magazine manuscript format described in the information for authors. All
papers should be submitted via the magazine's manuscript central at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/commag-ieee and in PDF format via email to
Dr. Tarik Taleb, tarik.ta... at neclab.eu or
talebta... at ieee.org, according to the following timetable:
Manuscript Submission Due: August 31, 2012
Acceptance Notification: November 30, 2012
Final Manuscript Due: December 31, 2012
Publication Date: March 2013
Guest editors
Dr. Tarik Taleb, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany.
Prof. Rolf Winter, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Germany.
Dr. Tuncer Baykas, National Institute of Information and Communications,
Japan
Dr. Farooq Bari , AT&T, USA
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