CFP: SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE NEW INTERNET ARCHITECTURE of THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING

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

COMPUTER NETWORKS: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER AND 
TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKING

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE NEW INTERNET ARCHITECTURE 

Submission deadline: 30th September 2001
Target publication deadline: May 2002.

The evolution of the Internet is at a turning point. During these latest
years, it has grown exponentially based on 
the IP best-effort paradigm. However, it is well accepted that, in its
evolution in the 21st century, the deployment of 
QoS-aware technologies is a key factor for the continued success of the
Internet.

Some advances in this direction have already been provided with the
introduction of the Integrated Services and 
Differentiated Services models by the IETF. Also the Multi Protocol
Label Switching (MPLS) technique is an 
important way of traffic engineering IP networks. At the infrastructure
level, the deployment of Wavelength 
Division Multiplexing (WDM) systems is creating a huge transport
capacity, which will significantly help the 
running of QoS-sensitive applications on the Internet.

Despite these advances, a significant number of issues still remain to
be solved at the architectural level. Among 
others, they are related to admission control and resource allocation
policies in the network, adequate user 
signalling protocols, network management systems for large numbers of
users and security. It is expected that, 
having in place the adequate infrastructure and protocols, high quality
real-time applications can run on the 
Internet without significant interference from conventional data
traffic.

This special issue looks for original research and review papers that
present the most recent proposals and results 
towards the definition of this new Internet architecture. The areas of
interest include, but are not limited to the 
following:

- MPLS and Traffic engineering in IP networks
- Architectures supporting IP over an optical infrastructure
- Evolution of routing protocols for multicast
- Strategies for the introduction of IPv6
- Evolution of mobile networks for an All IP solution
- Mobile ad-hoc IP networks
- Interworking aspects
- Approaches for introducing QoS in the Internet
- Support of real time services in the Internet
- Internet security
- Internet operations and management
- Results from advanced pilot IP networks.

Authors are encouraged to submit original papers not exceeding twenty
double-spaced pages. All manuscripts will 
be subject to the standard Computer Networks review process. 

Prospective authors should submit postscript or PDF versions of their
papers electronically to one of the guest 
editors. Authors should state clearly that their papers are for the
Special Issue on The New Internet Architecture.

Guest Editors:
Prof. Augusto Casaca                            Amardeo Sarma
INESC                                           NEC Europe Ltd.
R. Alves Redol, 9                               Adenauerplatz 6
1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal                       69115 Heidelberg,
Germany
Tel: +351.21.3100233                            Tel: +49.6221.13708-19
Fax: +351.21.3145843                            Fax: +49.6221.13708-28
E-mail: Augusto.Casaca@inesc.pt                 E-mail:
Amardeo.Sarma@ccrle.nec.de
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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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