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The article presents deadlines for submission of manuscript in the periodical on December 1, 2016 along with guidelines for manuscript submission. It informs that topics of manuscript includes case studies of incorporation of knowledge of telecommunication standards into professional training; impact of standards education on engineering, technology, society, and economy and best practices for incorporating standards into telecommunication curricula.

The article introduces various manuscripts presented in part 2 of the series "Cross-Layer Engineering for Wireless Mobile Networks," given in the January 2006 issue of the journal "IEEE Communications Magazine." The papers discuss several issues related to the cross-layer architecture and designing. They also discuss the need of high speed multimedia services that are one of the primary prerequisites for the protocol. The paper by V.T. Raisinghani and S. Iyer presents the cross-layer design architecture for enhancing the performance of existing protocol stacks in the wireless environment. The paper by R. Winter, J. Schiller, N. Nikaein and C. Bonnet provides an insight into cross-talk and methods of improvement of the cross layer working. Then there is an article by X. Zhang, J. Tang, H-H. Chen, S. Ci, and M. Guizani that presents information on a cross-layer model to investigate the impact of various advanced physical layer techniques on radio link layer performance. Then there are articles that focus on IEEE 802.11 standard on cross-layer signaling.

The mission of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is to "produce high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet in such a way as to make the Internet work better" [1]. This is a continuous process driving and driven by the rapid evolution of the Internet. Protocols and other technical standards developed by the IETF are the fundamental building blocks of our networked society. This feature topic gives an overview of recent achievements in creating standards that soon will have an impact on design, use, and management of the Internet. For this issue, we received 20 papers, many solicited directly from those who are responsible for these standards, from which we selected papers that represent five of the eight areas of the IETF: routing, transport, operations and management, Internet, and real-time applications and infrastructure. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]