CFP: IEEE Network Magazine : Special Issue on Policy Based Networking

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

Call For Papers
IEEE Network Magazine

Policy Based Networking


Guest Editors:

Steven Wright
Science & Technology
BellSouth
675 W.Peachtree St. NE
Atlanta GA 30375
+1(404)332-2194
steven.wright@snt.bellsouth.com

Ritu Chadha
Applied Research
Telcordia Technologies
445 South St.
Morristown NJ 07960
+1(973)829-4869
chadha@research.telcordia.com

George Lapiotis
Applied Research
Telcordia Technologies
445 South St.
Morristown NJ 07960
+1(973)829-4566
lapiotis@research.telcordia.com


Scope:

Policies are plans of an organization to achieve its objectives. A
policy is
a persistent specification of an objective to be achieved or a set of
actions to be performed in the future or as an on-going regular
activity.
Policy based networking is the application of these organizational
policies
in the context of networking. It is usually concerned with the
implementation of organizational objectives as automated operations,
management and control systems. In this context a policy is a
relationship
between network objects, such as particular groups of network elements,
network resources and services, and user groups. For example, a
bandwidth
management policy may apply to all routers within a particular region or
of
a particular type. An authorization policy may specify that all members
of a
department have access to a particular service.
Policies may be used to achieve better scaling in network management by
describing common attributes of groups of objects, typically associated
with
the "role" of that object instance in the network. Policies may also be
used
to express the behavior of objects - typically expressed as rules. Rule
based policies enhance the scalability of network control by (I)
facilitating the distribution of common control algorithms and (ii)
enabling
control functions to span multi-vendor networks through common
abstracted
information models. Specific policy sets may be applied to automate
network
administration tasks including configuration, performance, security,
fault
and restoration, service provisioning including QoS, and traffic
engineering. Recent research and standardization efforts provide a
framework
of policy conceptual, functional, and information models. However
further
issues need to be addressed to extend the adoption of Policy Based
Networking, including scalability, interoperability, and applicability
to
all aspects of network operations, management, and control, in Local and
Wide Area Networks.

This special issue of IEEE Network Magazine seeks to survey,
consolidate,
and present the state-of-the-art research and engineering work in
Policy-Based Networking. In particular, we are interested in focused
tutorial and survey contributions on (but not restricted to) the
following
subject categories:

*	Policy representation, validation, conflict resolution, negotiation,
translation.
*	Performance, scalability and security of policy management systems.
*	Policy information modeling, directories, and databases.
*	Network policy standardization.
*	Applicability, methods, and prototypes of the policy-oriented paradigm
to:
Network operations, management and control,
SLA and QoS management,
Security and AAA,
Traffic engineering,
IP-VPN network management,
Voice over IP network management.
*	Architectural comparisons or integration of Policy Based Networking
with
other approaches, e.g., active networks management, TINA, TMN, or agent
based approaches.
*	Economic evaluations of the linkage between business and service level
policies and network implementations.

Manuscript Submission:

This special issue will only consider electronic submissions in the
format
of postscript, PDF, or MS WORD. To submit a paper for consideration,
authors
should send your paper to one of the guest editors via email. The paper
should be included as an email attachment, or the author may provide a
URL
where the file can be downloaded.
Indicate which author is to serve as the primary correspondence contact.
Provide a contact list for all of the other authors. Please list
affiliations, mailing addresses, phone/fax numbers, and email addresses.
Additional information including "Guidelines for authors" is available
at
the IEEE Network website:
http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/authors.html

Schedule:

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2001
Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2001
Final Manuscripts: December 1, 2001
Publication of Special Issue: March/April, 2002
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This message is forwarded to members of the COSC/EEE/Management research 
group on networks at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 
New zealand, and anybody else interested in research in this area

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		Associate Professor Dr 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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