Special Issue of the Transactions of the SCS on Performance Modeling and Simulation of ATM Systems and Networks

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

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Special Issue of the Transactions of the Society for Computer Simulation
Part B on: Performance Modeling and Simulation of ATM Systems and
Networks

Guest Editor: Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat, 

ATM is one of the major enabling technologies of high-speed networking.
It is 
the first technology that offers a corporation the capability to use a
common 
enterprise-wide protocol and infrastructure for all voice, data, and
video 
communications. ATM excels when applications require specific quality of 
service (QoS) and reserved bandwidth. ATM offers combined switching and 
routing within the WAN, as well as a backbone technology of choice for 
high-performance, QoS-aware campus backbone, coexisting with IP and LAN 
switching. These are the main key features that allow ATM to become the
common 
platform for enterprise-wide computer communications. ATM allows a user
to 
send voice, video, and data from his/her computer to peer nodes anywhere 
across the WAN. Furthermore, ATM provides the infrastructure of a
seamless 
single protocol for all traffic types. It offers economies of scale in
network 
infrastructure through by integrating different traffic types. ATM is
more 
efficient than multiple separate networks. The trend is that traditional 
telecom carriers as well as many Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 
increasingly rely on ATM in their backbone infrastructure. It is a 
multiplexing and switching technology that provides flexibility,
versatility, 
and scalability. ATM offers a tighter coupling between the user
application 
and network protocol. It places intelligence into the WAN making the
network 
smarter and allowing the network to become more like a computer and less
than 
a dump transport medium. ATM excels when it is desirable for
applications with 
different performance, QoS, and business requirements to be performed on
the 
same computer multiplexer, router, switch, and/or network. ATM enables
network 
managers to flexibly adapt to changing enterprise communications
requirements, 
evolving business environment, and fluctuating traffic volumes and
patterns. 

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

* IP over ATM 
* TCP over ATM			
* ATM over WDM  and DWDM
* ATM switching/switches
* Quality of Service (QoS)
* ATM LANs
* LAN Emulation (LANE)
* Connection Admission Control (CAC) protocols
* Multiservice ATM multiplexers 
* Voice over ATM
* ATM traffic management
* Traffic and congestion control
* Traffic Shaping		
* Delay and loss priority control	

* Flow control and congestion avoidance
* Buffering techniques
* IP/ATM vs. IP/SONET 
* Wireless ATM (WATM)	 
* Tools, Methodologies, and Applications
* Intelligent ATM networks
* ATM over Satellite systems
* ATM over xDSL
* ATM Cable Modem
* MultiProtocol Over ATM (MPOA)
* ATM-based cellular networks


Special Issue Guest Editor:
Prof. Mohammad S. Obaidat, Department of Computer Science, Monmouth
University,
West Long Branch, NJ 07764, U.S.A.
Tel: 732-571-4482, e-mail: obaidat@monmouth.edu

Prospective authors are invited to submit electronically using word, ps,
or 
pdf format their full papers that should not exceed 20 double-spaced
pages 
including all illustrations by May 1, 2001 to the guest editor. Only
original 
and previously unpublished papers are considered. If electronic
submission is 
not possible, send five hard copies of the manuscript to the guest
editor at 
his address listed above. All submitted papers will undergo the standard 
review procedure established by the Transactions of the Society for
Computer 
Simulation. 


Schedule:
Submission Deadline of full papers: May 1, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2001
Final Manuscript Due: December 1, 2001
Tentative Publication Date: March 2002

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COSC/Management/Maths research group on stochastic simulation, 
and anybody else interested in research in these areas

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		Associate Professor  Krzysztof Pawlikowski

	Department of Computer Science,  University of Canterbury
 			Christchurch, New Zealand
		
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