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["Osama Aboul-Magd"<osama@nortelnetworks.com>]

Title:

                           Call for Papers

                Minitrack on Quality of Service in the Internet

                         Software Technology Track

             Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science

                             January 6-9, 2003

                          Hilton Waikoloa Village

                             Big Island, Hawaii

             Web page: http://www.ee.iastate.edu/~kamal/HICSS36

Overview:

A large number of network applications, differing in requirements and traffic

characteristics have been introduced in the past few years.  As such, the

Internet is now moving from being a best-effort service provider, to a provider

of assured service qualities.  This requires the development of new

protocols, both inside subnetworks, and on end-to-end levels.  Such protocols

should deal with issues as service differentiation, pricing, congestion

control, QoS routing, resource reservation, service provisioning, etc.   The

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), as the main standard body for IP

protocol has been working on those issues.

A new and lightweight service paradigm, namely, the Differentiated Services

(DiffServ) approach has been proposed by IETF and active research is underway

to define architectures and strategies for QoS within the Internet.  Several

issues still need to be worked on, such as end-to-end service

interworking, actual protocol mechanisms and implementation,

classification and marking, the service level agreement and the service

guarantees.

Scope:

The minitrack will concentrate on complete or ongoing research in the area

of Internet Quality of Service.  Areas of interest include, but are not

limited to:

- Traffic characterization

- Differentiated services protocols and signaling

- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

- Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) QoS

- Layer 2 QoS, e.g., IEEE 802.1Q VLAN

- Scheduling algorithms

- End-to-end service interworking

- Congestion control strategies in DiffServ networks

- Active queue management

- Resource reservation

- Pricing

- Performance evaluation

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Ahmed E. Kamal

Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng.

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011

U.S.A.

Tel: (515) 294-3580<br>

Fax: (515) 294-8432<br>

E-mail: kamal@iastate.edu

Osama Aboul-Magd

Nortel Networks

P.O. Box 3511, Station C

Ottawa, ON K1Y - 4H7

CANADA

Tel: 613-763-5827

Fax: 613-763-2697

E-mail: osama@nortelnetworks.com

Important Deadlines:

March 31, 2002      A 300-word abstract

April 19, 2002      Feedback to author on abstract

June 1, 2002        Eight copies of the manuscript

August 31, 2002     Notification of accepted papers

October 1, 2002     Camera-ready copies of accepted manuscripts

                   

Instructions for Authors:

Submit a 300-word abstract to either of the two co-chairs (kamal@iastate.edu

or osama@nortelnetworks.com) by March 31, 2002.  The preferred method of

submission is e-mail.  However, submissions by regular mail, or fax will

also be considered.  Feedback on the appropriateness of the abstract will

be sent to the authors by April 19, 2002. Submit the full manuscript by

June 1, 2002. Manuscripts should have an abstract and be 22-25 typeset,

double-spaced pages in length.  Papers must not have been previously

presented or published, nor currently submitted for publication.

Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed, and accepted manuscripts will be

published in the conference proceedings.

If you have more questions, or want to find out more about HICSS36,

please go to the Software Technology Track homepage,

http://www.engr.smu.edu/~rewini/cfp-stt-h36.html

or contact either of the co-chairs.