WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTINGWirel. Commun. Mob. Comput. 2004; 4:593–594 (DOI: 10.1002/wcm.230)

Guest Editorial

Special Issue: Mobility Management in Wirelessand Mobile Networks

By Azzedine Boukerche and Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Guest Editors

Continuous advances in wireless and mobile commu-

nication technology coupled with the recent prolifera-

tion of portable computers have led development

efforts for future wireless systems towards mobile ad

hoc networks—a new dimension for future mobile

networks. Wireless technology is being used to link

portable computer equipment to corporate distributed

computing and other sources of necessary informa-

tion. Many researchers are undertaking efforts to

explore new technology for mobile computing and

wireless communication, in a mixed wireless and

wired network environment, with mobile computing

applications. Wide-area cellular systems and wireless

LANs promise to make integrated networks a reality

and provide fully distributed and ubiquitous mobile

computing and communications, thus bringing an end

to the tyranny of geography.

This special issue of the Journal of Wireless Com-

munications and Mobile Computing contains a collec-

tion of high quality papers, presented at the 1st IEEE

Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac

2002) and ACM/IFIPS Europar 2003 meetings, on

mobile computing. In addition to these two events, we

have received a few more papers, as a result of the

call-for-papers for this issue. Each paper went through

a rigorous, peer review process as required by the

journal. Based upon the referee reports, seven papers

were selected for their original contributions as well

as their suitability to the topic for the special issue.

Special thanks are due to all authors for their

submissions and the reviewers for their hard work

and timely report, which made this issue truly special.

Last but certainly not least, our thanks to the Editor-

in-Chief, Prof. M. Guizani, for his encouragement,

support and guidance throughout this project.

Azzedine Boukerche, Guest EditorSITE, University of OttawaOttawa, Ontario, Canada

Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare, Guest EditorBarddal University

Florianapolic, SC, Brazil

Authors’ Biographies

Azzedine Boukerche holds a CanadaResearch Chair Professor at theUniversity of Ottawa, and the Found-ing Director of PARADISE ResearchLaboratory at the University of Ottawa.Prior to this, he was a Faculty memberat the Department of ComputerSciences at the University of NorthTexas. He also worked as a SeniorScientist at the Simulation Sciences

Division, Metron Corporation located in San Diego. Hewas employed as a faculty at the School of ComputerScience (McGill University) and he also taught at thePolytechnic of Montreal. He spent the 1991–1992 academic

year at the JPL-California Institute of Technology where hecontributed to a project centered about the specification andverification of the software used to control interplanetaryspacecraft operated by JPL/NASA Laboratory. His currentresearch interests include wireless networks, mobile com-puting, distributed systems, distributed computing, distrib-uted interactive simulation, parallel simulation and VLSIdesign. Dr. Bourkerche has published several researchpapers in these areas. He was the recipient of the bestresearch paper award at IEEE/ACM PAD’97, the recipientof the National Award for Telecommunication Software in1999 for his work on a distributed security system formobile phone operations, and has been nominated for thebest paper award at the IEEE/ACM PAD’99, and ACM

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MSWiM’2001. He was the Program co-Chair of the thirdIEEE International Workshop on Distributed Simulation andReal Time Applications (DS-RT’99), and a Program Co-Chair of the 2nd ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysisand Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems(MSWiM’99), the General Co-Chair of the principle Sym-posium on Modeling Analysis, and Simulation of Computerand Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), in 1998, aGeneral Chair of the 3rd ACM Conference on Modeling,Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems(MSWiM’2000), and a General Chair of 4th IEEE Interna-tional Workshop on Distributed Simulation and Real TimeApplication (DS-RT’2000), a Chair and the main organizerof a special Session on wireless and mobile computing at theIEEE HiPC’2000. Program Co-Chair for the 35th SCS/IEEE/ACM Annual Simulation Symposium (2002), Pro-gram Co-Chair for the 10th IEEE/ACM International Sym-posium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation ofComputer and Telecommunication Systems (2002) and asa Tools-Chair for MASCOTS 2001. He served as a GuestEditor for several international journals: VLSI Design, theJournal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC),ACM Wireless Networks (WINET) and ACM Mobile Net-works and Applications (MONET). Dr. Boukerche serves asGeneral Chair for the Int’l Conference on Quality ofServices in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks(QShine 2004), as an associate editor for ACM/KluwerWireless Networks, the International Journal of Paralleland Distributed Computing, and SCS Transactions

SIMULATION, and Steering Committee Chair of theIEEE DS-RT, and ACM MSWiM conferences. He hasbeen a member of the Program Committee of BioSP3,ICCI, IPDPS, ICON, ICPP, LCN, MASCOTS, MSWiM,PADS and ACM WWW, WoWMoM conferences. Dr. Bou-kerche is also a member of IEEE and ACM.

Mirela S. M. Annoni Notare receivedher Ph.D. from the Federal Universityof Santa Catarina (UFSC) in 2000,Master degree in 1995 from UFSCand a Bachelor degree from the PassoFundo University in 1989—all inComputer Science. Her main researchof interests focuses on the propositionof security management solutions forwireless and mobile ad hoc networks.

Dr. Mirela Notare has published widely in these areas.She has also received several awards and citations, suchas National Award for Telecommunication Software, INRIAand TV Globo. She served as a General Co-Chair forthe International Information Technology Symposium(I2TS’2002), and Program Co-Chair for the IEEEMobility and Wireless Access Workshop (MobiWac’2002).She has been a committee member in several scientificconferences, including ACM MSWiM, IEEE/ACM/SCSANNSS and IEEE/ACM MASCOTS. She is the Foundingand President of STS Co. and a member of IEEE, SBrT andSBC societies.

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