[e2e] CFP: Quality of Service over Next-Generation Data Networks

[Atiquzzaman, Mohammed]

     Call for Papers and Announcement
                   Conference on
Quality of Service over Next-Generation Data Networks
              (IT302, SPIE QoS 2001)
http://spie.org/web/meetings/calls/itcom01/confs/IT302.html

Part of SPIE's ITCom 2001 - International Symposium and Exhibit
on the Convergence of Information Technology and Communications,
20-24 August 2001, Denver, Colorado.


Conference Chair
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Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA
Mahbub Hassan, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia

Program Committee
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Johnson Agbinya, Vodafone (Australia)
Michael S. Borella, 3Com
Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada)
Candan Cankaya, Alcatel USA, Inc.
Subrata De, Vodafone (Australia)
Arjan Durresi, Wu-chi Feng, The Ohio State Univ.
Nasir Ghani, Sorrento Networks
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology (Hong Kong)
Felix Hartanto, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
William A. Ivancic, NASA Glenn Research Ctr.
Sanjay Jha, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia)
Marwan Krunz, Univ. of Arizona
Wai Sum Lai, AT&T Labs.
Vinod Mirchandani, Motorola (Australia)
Josi Neuman de Souza, Federal Univ. of Ceara (Brazil)
Neeraj K. Sharma, Clarkson Univ.
Samar Singh, Univ. of California/Riverside
Harsha Sirisena, Univ. of Canterbury (New Zealand)
Liren Zhang, Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore)
Bing Zheng, Univ. of Dayton

The best-effort service model of the current Internet does not
provide Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to multimedia and
other business-critical transactions. The convergence of services
through the Internet means that the next generation data networks
will have to support the negotiation and assurance of QoS. In
recognition of this need, several efforts have been launched.
The Integrated Services (intserv) service model is based on
reserving resources for those connections or flows that need QoS
assurance. To support this mode of operation, the RSVP signaling
protocol has been developed, although other suitable protocols can
be used as well. Recently, enhancements have been proposed for
RSVP to handle aggregated flows. Complementary to Intserv, the
Differentiated Services model classifies and marks all traffic into
several classes at network entry so that core routers can simply
forward packets according to the QoS requirements of different
service classes. In another direction, the Multiprotocol Label
Switching (MPLS) paradigm has been developed to enable the
efficient support of QoS and the offering of new QoS capabilities.
Currently, new mechanisms are under investigation to support QoS
over wireless access networks for mobile users.
This conference aims to bring together the work that has been
carried out in the area of Quality of Service over Next Generation
Data Networks.

Topics to be covered in this conference include:


Integrated and Differentiated Services

QoS mapping from Integrated Services to Differentiated Services

Active Buffer Management techniques, ex. RED.

LAN QoS

Multiprotocol Label Switching

QoS guarantees in 3G wireless multimedia networks

QoS based routing

QoS management in multi-bearer IP networks including PSTN,
ISDN, satellite, GSM, GPRS and CDMA networks

Impact of media compression in QoS networks

QoS over Mobile IP

QoS enabled MAC design

Submitted abstracts should be of approximately 250 words.
Authors should submit their abstracts from conference website
http://spie.org/web/meetings/calls/itcom01/confs/IT302.html.
There will be a proceedings, published by SPIE, distributed at the
conference.  Accepted papers will be allocated up to 12 pages in
the proceedings.

Important dates
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Abstracts due from authors:   19 February 2001
Manuscripts due from authors: 28 May 2001



Mohammed Atiquzzaman           Tel:   (405) 325 8077
School of Computer Science     Fax:   (520) 962 8422, 
University of Oklahoma                (405) 325 4044
200 Felgar St., Room EL-154    Email: atiq at ou.edu
Norman, OK 73019-6151                 atiq at ieee.org
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