GUEST EDITORS' INTRODUCTION: Special Issue on Wireless and Mobile Computing and Communications

✍ Scribed by Azzedine Boukerche; Sajal K. Das

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 71 KB
• Volume: 60
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0743-7315
• DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.2000.1620

✦ Synopsis

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 to access information from anywhere at any time. Efforts are also under way to explore new technology for wireless multimedia applications and personnel communication services (PCS) in mixed wireline and wireless network environments. Clearly, the emerging field of mobile computing and communications has the potential to dramatically change society as workers become untethered from their information sources.

This special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) contains a collection of high-quality papers on wireless mobile networking and distributed computing with mobile communications capability.

In response to the call for papers for this special issue, we received 47 submissions from more than 10 countries, leading to a truly international competition. The selection process has also been highly competitive. Each paper went through rigorous peer review by three to four referees. Based on the referees' reports, the Guest Editors ranked the manuscripts for their original contributions and also carefully considered the suitability of the topics for the special issue. Thus were selected only 8 manuscripts, which went through another round of revisions before they could finally be recommended to the JPDC Editor for publication in this issue.

We take this opportunity to thank all the authors for their submissions and the reviewers for their extremely hard work and timely reports, which made this special issue truly special.