Special Issue on
'Performance Evaluation of QoS-aware Heterogeneous Systems'

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Guest editor:

Charalabos Skianis
Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’, Athens, Greece

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Brief description of the topic:

Quality of Service (QoS) provision remains always a challenge for both academia and industry. Considering a user centric environment, we are asked to provide services at any time, for anyone, anywhere in a secure environment and in an invisible way. In this theater of service provision, there are numerous users with highly diversified needs and profiles, utilizing heterogeneous networking environments. Along these lines the notion of Quality of Service considers the delivery chain that is comprised of the actual user, the service, network and content providers, the terminal equipments, the access and core networks, both wired and wireless, in modern highly heterogeneous and ubiquitous environments. Towards a well integrated heterogeneous networks infrastructure performance evaluation plays a key role during the design and the operation phases with many interesting and important performance engineering issues yet to be resolved.

This Special Issue of EJOR is devoted to presenting the advances towards the performance evaluation of QoS-aware Heterogeneous Systems as depicted in research activities from professionals, academics and researchers. Contributions are solicited on (but not restricted to) the following subject categories:

• Heterogeneous networks
• Cellular, wireless and mobile communications
• Integration of wired and wireless networks
• Performance modeling and simulation
• Quantitative methods and tools
• Traffic modeling, characterization and engineering
• Quality of Service
• Performance aware network design, planning and dimensioning
• Network management systems
• Services and applications
• Testbeds and measurements

Submission guidelines and important dates:

Papers should present new research and development material. Authors must follow the EJOR guidelines regarding the manuscript and its format. For details, please refer to the “Guide for Authors” at the EJOR  Web site (  http://authors.elsevier.com)

Important dates:
Submission Deadline: October 1, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: January 15, 2007
Final Manuscript Due: February 15, 2007

Address for submission:
Authors are strongly encouraged to send submissions via email in electronic form (PDF, Postscript) to the email address skianis@iit.demokritos.gr

Special Issue Editor:

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Charalabos Skianis
Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’
15310 Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, POB 60228
Athens, Greece

Email: skianis@iit.demokritos.gr

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