Technical Program of SPIE CONFERENCE ON INTERNET,PERFORMANCE AND CONTROL OF NETWORK SYSTEMS, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Date: November 6-8, 2000

["K. Pawlikowski" <krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Please find attached the final program of the "SPIE CONFERENCE ON
INTERNET,
PERFORMANCE AND CONTROL OF NETWORK SYSTEMS", part of SPIE's
International
Symposium on Voice, Video and Data Communications.

Location: Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Date: November 6-8, 2000
Final program and registration:
http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/programs/pe00/confs/4211.html.


Telecommunications services being offered to customers today are
expanding
from basic telephony and data offerings to advanced integrated services
such
as multi-media broadband and high-speed data. This evolution has raised
the
need for new and more sophisticated solutions in the development of
networking technologies and infrastructure. The growing complexity of
communication networks and the heterogeneity of the network services has
made traffic engineering crucial to ensure that diverse quality of
service
requirements can be met both efficiently and cost-effectively. Traffic
considerations are also extremely important in evaluating different
architectural and technological alternatives and cost-performance
tradeoffs.
To support these network administration and planning activities, new
networking principles and traffic theories are needed.

The Internet has experienced tremendous growth over the past few years:
more than 50 million Americans use the Internet every day; analysts are
estimating more than 1 billion users worldwide early in the 21st
century.
The Internet is now
connecting around 70 million devices, a huge leap from about 2000
computers
on the
"net" in 1985. At the same time, demands are picking up for new, elastic
or
real-time, services such as supports for voice, video, e-commerce,
computing
applications, and mission critical data. This presents challenges in
several
major areas including quality of service, security, reliability,
manageability, and scalability.

The aim of this conference is to promote discussion on the development
of
performance evaluation techniques, traffic control principles, traffic
engineering methods and practices, and to explore future directions in
enhancing the Internet to address the abovementioned challenges. To
support
these discussions, we have selected a number of interesting papers that
will
be presented at the conference.


We are looking forward to seeing you in Boston!


Angela Chiu (AT&T)
Frank Huebner (Concert)
Rob van der Mei (KPN, Netherlands)
To members of COSC/EEE/Management research group on networks, 
and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
ph.  +(64) 3 3642 987 ext.7772  email:   krys@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz 
fax. +(64) 3 3642 569      URL:     http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~krys

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