[e2e] CFP IEEE Comm "Internet Quality of Service Routing"

[Ibrahim Matta]

		     	Call For Papers
                  IEEE Communications Magazine

     Feature Topic on "Internet Quality of Service Routing"

URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/matta/cfp/qosr.html

Guest Editors:
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   Marwan M. Krunz                        Ibrahim Matta

   Dept. Electrical & Computer Eng.       Computer Science Dept.
   University of Arizona                  Boston University
   Tucson, AZ 85721                       Boston, MA 02215
   Email: krunz at ece.arizona.edu	          Email: matta at cs.bu.edu
   Phone: (520) 621-8731		  Phone: (617) 358-1062
   Fax: (520) 621-3862                    Fax: (617) 353-6457


Scope:
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QoS  routing   represents  a   radical  shift  from   the  traditional
connectivity-based approach of  currently deployed intra-domain (e.g.,
OSPF)  and inter-domain (e.g.,  BGP) routing  protocols. It  calls for
QoS-sensitive   scalable   solutions   for   path   selection,   state
dissemination,  multicasting,   and  topology  aggregation.   Emerging
Internet  services  such  as  Differentiated Services  (Diffserv)  and
Multi-Protocol Label  Switching (MPLS) are likely to  both require and
justify the need for QoS-based routing solutions. This is reflected in
a  number of  recent standardization  activities that  acknowledge the
importance  of  QoS routing  and  that  call  for efficient,  scalable
solutions  to it. Nonetheless,  it has  been recently  recognized that
existing QoS  routing solutions have been developed  "at some distance
from the  task of development  of QoS architectures."   In particular,
current  QoS   architectural  models,  including   Diffserv,  seem  to
implicitly assume that various  classes of traffic are forwarded along
the  same  (best-effort)  path,  with  service  differentiation  being
achieved locally through appropriate packet scheduling at each router.
Decoupling  routing and  QoS  provisioning can  lead to  "inefficient"
selection  of   routes,  reducing   the  likelihood  of   meeting  the
applications' end-to-end QoS requirements.

In recent years, extensive research  has been published on QoS routing
mechanisms,  often  in the  context  of  traffic engineering.  Several
issues  have been  adequately  addressed, while  others  remain to  be
tackled.  The  purpose of  this  Feature  Topic  is to  summarize  the
state-of-the-art in QoS routing research. We solicit tutorial research
articles  and  surveys that  report  on  experimental and  theoretical
studies related to  QoS routing.  Topics of interest  include, but are
not limited to, the following:

  - Constraint-based path selection algorithms.
  - Scalable state dissemination.
  - Stateless QoS routing frameworks.
  - Topology aggregation for hierarchical, QoS-based routing.
  - QoS routing for traffic engineering.
  - Fault-tolerant routing.
  - Tradeoff between scalability and performance in QoS routing.
  - QoS routing in optical networks.
  - Multicast routing.
  - Impact of Internet topologies on QoS routing.
  - Localized QoS routing solutions.
  - QoS routing in mobile and ad-hoc networks.
  - Tools for evaluating QoS routing mechanisms.


Submission Instructions:
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Authors  are encouraged  to submit  their manuscripts  by email  as an
attachment to one of the guest editors. Acceptable formats are limited
to  Postscript  and  PDF.   Paper  submission  should  adhere  to  the
submission  guidelines  of   the  IEEE  Communications  Magazine.   In
particular, submitted articles should be tutorial in nature and should
be written in a style  comprehensible to readers outside the specialty
of the article.  Articles may be  edited for content, and will be copy
edited  for compliance  with  the magazine's  style guidelines.   Page
proofs will  be sent to the  contact author for final  review prior to
publication.   Details of the  submission guidelines  can be  found at
http://www.comsoc.org/~ci (under Submissions).

Submissions should indicate the name and contact information (address,
phone, fax, email) of the corresponding author.


Tentative Schedule:
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Submission Deadline: June 30, 2001
Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2001
Final Manuscripts Due: November 30, 2001
Publication Date: March 2002