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

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

Dear Colleague,

Special Issue of the Transactions of the Society for
Computer Simulation-Part B on:

		Performance Modeling and Simulation of ATM
			Systems and Networks 

May you receive multiple copies of this email please accept our sincere
apologies.

Regards.


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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: July 31, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: October 15,  2001
Final Manuscript Due: December 1, 2001
Tentative Publication Date: March 2002

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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE research group on 
networks,  and the COSC/Management/Maths research group on stochastic 
simulation, at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New zealand, 
and anybody else interested in research in these areas

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