Subject: Call for Papers session on BANDWIDTH and SERVICE QUALITY management in the Internet

From: "Junaid Ahmed Zubairi" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:46:16 -0500

CALL FOR PAPERS
INVITED SESSION ON BANDWIDTH AND SERVICE QUALITY
MANAGEMENT IN THE INTERNET

5th World Multi-Conference on
Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2001)
Orlando, Florida, USA

July 22-25, 2001

Scope
Internet is undergoing a major transformation from being a best effort
network to a well organized and well managed system with built-in
intelligent protocols to provide predictable performance. Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) has developed and incorporated a number
of new protocols and techniques for managing and allocating network
bandwidth and supporting service quality. For bandwidth allocation and
management, COPS (Common Open Policy Service) clients and servers
work to convey policy decisions and allocate and recover bandwidth across
a domain. For QoS, RSVP provides quantitative guarantees by reserved paths
and Diffserv provides qualitative assurances by using PHB (per hop behavior)
and PDB (per domain behavior) for packets marked with DSCP (DS codepoints).
MPLS installs LSP's (Label Switched Path) that satisfy Traffic Engineering
requirements. As LSP's are set up and released, the available bandwidth
metrics
for various links are updated to reflect the current state of the network.
An invited session on managing bandwidth and service quality through these
new protocols and techniques is being organized at the SCI'2001 conference.
This session will serve as a forum to present and discuss the latest
research and
simulation results of works by researchers and developers across the world.
Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:

Bandwidth management with COPS and MPLS
Effects of shaping and packet coloring on multimedia streams
Integrated operation of Intserv and Diffserv
Aggregation of flows for scaling of RSVP
VoIP performance over Diffserv networks
Traffic Engineering architecture for the Internet
Impact of congestion resolution schemes on QoS traffic
Voice over MPLS
Performance of RSVP-MPLS architecture
FR/MPLS Network and service interworking
Inter-provider MPLS signaling and LSP routing
Inter-domain tunneling rules
COPS Policy Server/Bandwidth Broker implementation issues

Paper Submission
Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent as per the following
format:
1. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words or paper drafts of 2000 to 2500
words,
in English.
2. Names, addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses
of all authors, with the name of the contact author underlined.
The abstracts or papers can be submitted in ps or pdf format to session
organizer
at [email-masked] by March 2nd, 2001 via email.

Proceedings
Accepted papers, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will
be
published by means of paper and electronic proceedings. Best papers will be
selected for awards and recommended for journal publications. Multiple
author books
will be published by IIIS, based on the best-invited sessions, the best
focus
symposia or the best mini-conferences

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
Fax: +1-508-256-8324
Email: [email-masked]
WWW: http://www.cs.fredonia.edu/~zubairi

Session Co-organizer:
Wajdi Al-Khateeb
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Kulliyyah of Engineering, Intl' Islamic University Malaysia
Jalan Gombak, Kuala Lumpur 53100, Malaysia
Tel: +603-2056-4574
Fax: +603-2056-4853
Email: [email-masked]

Important Dates:
Extended Abstract/Draft Paper due:     March 2nd, 2001
Notification of Acceptance:     March 16th, 2001
Camera read copy due:    April 13th, 2001

If you have questions concerning session paper submission
or session content, please contact the invited session organizers
at the addresses above.

If you have questions concerning conference paper submissions
or program, please contact Conference General Chair Prof.
Nagib Callaos by email at [email-masked] (Academic) or
[email-masked] (Personal). For further information, see
conference web site at
http://www.iiis.org/sci

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Dr. Junaid Ahmed Zubairi
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
SUNY/Fredonia, Fredonia, NY 14063
Tel: (716)673-4694
Fax:(508)256-8324
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