Volume 1 (2005) Editorial: About This Issue/Editorial Buoyancy of Topics on Communications Software and Systems/Editorial On the Design of Punctured Low Density Parity Check Codes for Variable Rate Systems/Open Call Articles Simulation of Electromagnetic Coupling on Pipelines close to Overhead Transmission Lines: A Parametric Study/Open Call Articles Privacy conscious architecture for personal information transfer from a personal trusted device to an HTTP based service/Open Call Articles A Data Rate Maximization Algorithm for Multiuser OFDM Systems/Open Call Articles Power Constrained Space-Time Processing for Suppression of Electromagnetic Fields/Open Call Articles Video Smoothing of Aggregates of Streams with Bandwidth Constraints/Open Call Articles Efficient Algorithmic and Architectural Optimization of QR-based Detector for V-BLAST/Open Call Articles Design and Implementation of a Low Complexity Multiuser Detector for Hybrid CDMA Systems/Open Call Articles The Two-Step P2P Simulation Approach/Open Call Articles A Framework for Analysis of Connectivity and Performance Bounds in Ad Hoc Networks and Its Application to a Slotted-ALOHA Scenario/Open Call Articles A Model-based Scalable Reliable Multicast Transport Protocol for Satellite Networks/Open Call Articles A New Perspective for a Global QoS-based Internet/Open Call Articles