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CFP - Special Issue of Computer Communications on Performance Evaluation of IP Networks and Services



                          CALL FOR PAPERS

             Special Issue of Computer Communications on

          Performance Evaluation of IP Networks and Services

                      PUBLICATION: SUMMER 2002

IP networks and IP-based services are growing in number and variety.
Striking a balance between offering sufficient resources and limiting
capital investments (i.e., avoiding over provisioning of resources) is
essential for providing appropriate and economical connectivity and
services. While a number of interesting concepts in traffic and
congestion control areas have been proposed (and some are about to be
implemented in commercial networks), many issues have been addressed
only at the surface level or even not at all.  Performance modeling and
measurement in both laboratory and live networks are being used to
optimize capacity/resource trade-offs. The area of differentiated
services, including QoS mechanisms and MPLS traffic engineering, is
still a field with more open questions than answers.

This special issue of Computer Communications is seeking new and
unpublished contributions addressing issues in performance evaluation
of IP networks including, but not limited to:

* Modeling of IP networks
* Measurement methods and tools
* Measurement infrastructures
* Performance test beds and testing
* Experimental test beds and results
* Traffic characterization
* Congestion management and control
* Traffic management and control
* IP QoS and DiffServ
* MPLS traffic engineering
* Performance issues in IP voice and video
* New IP-based services (w/ performance issues)

Papers describing current research are solicited.  Survey, tutorial,
industry experience, and case study papers are also solicited.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions:      January 1, 2002
Notification of acceptance:    April 1, 2002
Publication:                   Summer 2002

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Electronic submission, in postscript or PDF format, to the either of
the guest editors (email address given below) is highly encouraged.
If electronic submission is not possible, please send three copies by
regular mail to either of the guest editors.

Frank Huebner (Guest co-editor)
Concert
Room MT-D5-2C05
200 Laurel Avenue
Middletown, New Jersey USA 07748
Email: frank.huebner@concert.com

Kenneth J. Christensen (Guest co-editor)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
4202 East Fowler Avenue, ENB 118
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida USA 33620
Email: christen@csee.usf.edu

Complete details on submission and further information are available
from the journal's web site (http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/authors),
or from the General Editor, Jeremy Thompson (comcom@troubador.co.uk).

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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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