Subject: CFP Special Session on Interworking of Diffserv, RSVP and MPLS

From: Junaid Zubairi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:27:00 -0700 (PDT)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Session on Interworking of Diffserv, RSVP and
MPLS for achieving QoS in the Internet

Twelfth IASTED International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS
2000)
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
November 6-9, 2000

http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2000/lasvegas/pdcscfp.htm

(Submission Deadline:  August 14, 2000)

Scope:
The traffic on the Internet is increasingly changing 
from  best-effort  to  time-sensitive   however  the 
Internet  is   not   ready yet  for supporting  this 
changing  traffic. IETF (Internet  Engineering  Task 
Force) is developing   new protocols  and techniques 
for supporting  QoS (Quality of Service) in  private 
networks as well  as the  global Internet. Among the 
new protocols, RSVP provides quantitative guarantees 
to each  flow whereas  Diffserv provides qualitative 
assurances  by   using  PHB (per  hop  behavior) for 
packets marked with DSCP (DS  codepoints). MPLS  has 
been   developed  to  accelerate  routing of traffic 
aggregates destined towards a common point by  using 
LSP (Label Switched Paths) so that  the intermediate 
routers do not have to make a routing decision. MPLS 
also leverages the cost of ATM  switches  by mapping 
LSP's to VPI/VCI for IP over ATM.

A special session on Interworking of these protocols 
will be organized at the PDCS 2000  conference. This 
session will serve as a forum to  present the latest 
research   and   simulation   results  of  works  by 
international  researchers,  developers, and  users.  
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Integrated operation of Intserv and Diffserv  for 
  edge-to-edge QoS flows
* Aggregation of flows for scaling of RSVP
* VoIP performance over Diffserv networks
* Traffic Engineering Architecture for the Internet
* Jitter characteristics in a Diffserv domain
* Scheduling at nodes in a Diffserv domain
* Mapping ATM CoS to Diffserv 
* Voice over MPLS
* Performance of RSVP-MPLS architecture
* FR/MPLS Network and service interworking
* Inter-provider MPLS signaling and LSP routing
* COPS Policy Server/Bandwidth Broker implementation 
  issues

Paper Submission
Submission    should   include   authors      names, 
affiliations, addresses and email addresses, on the  
cover page.  Submission implies the willingness  of 
at least one of the authors to register and present 
the paper.  Please submit full paper, not exceeding  
10 pages  in  length (single-space) in  PS  or  PDF 
format for  consideration, to  session organizer at 
[email-masked]   by   August 14, 2000  via 
email.  Include up to 5 keywords and an abstract of 
no  more  than   250 words.  On  a  separate sheet, 
include  paper's  title,   author(s)  names     and 
affiliation, postal address, email, fax, and  phone 
numbers.  Indicate address for correspondence.

Proceedings
All papers selected for this session by peer-review 
process   will be published  in  the      PDCS'2000 
conference proceedings through IASTED Press, USA.

Session Organizer:
Dr. Junaid Ahmed Zubairi
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
College at Fredonia, State University of New York,
Fredonia, NY 14063, USA
Tel: +1-716-673-4694
(During summer 2000,Tel: 00-603-2056-4552)
Fax: +1-508-256-8324
Email: [email-masked]
WWW: http://www.cs.fredonia.edu/~zubairi

Important Dates:
Draft Papers due on: August 14, 2000
Notification of Acceptance: August 22, 2000
Final Manuscripts and 
Preregistration due on: September 15, 2000

If you have questions concerning session paper 
submission or  session content, please contact 
the special  session  organizer at the address
above.  

If you have questions concerning conference 
paper submissions or program, please contact 
Conference Program Co-Chairs: Dr. M. Guizani, 
University of West Florida, USA, 
[email-masked] or X. Shen, University of 
Missouri-Kansas City, USA, [email-masked].  
For further information, see conference web site at 
http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2000/lasvegas/pdcs.htm.

For more information about IASTED or PDCS 2000, 
please contact:  IASTED Secretariat PDCS 2000, #80, 
4500 16th Avenue NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T3B 0M6
, 
Tel: 403-288-1195, Fax: 403-247-6851, 
Email: [email-masked], Web: www.iasted.com.  

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere!
http://mail.yahoo.com/