CFP: SPIE ITCom'2002, Int. Conference on Internet, Performance & Control of Networks, 30-31 July, 2002, Boston, MA, USA]

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

Call for Papers

Conference on Internet, Performance & Control of Network Systems III
part of SPIE's

ITCom 2002: Showcasing Communication, Networking, Computing and Storage
Technologies and Applications
30-31 July, 2002, Boston, MA, USA

The use of telecommunication services has experienced tremendous growth
over the past few years. Services have evolved from basic telephony and
data offerings to advanced integrated services over high-speed networks,
wireless networks and the Internet. For example, the Internet traffic is
doubling in size every 100 days; analysts are estimating more than 1
billion users worldwide early in the 21st century. At the same time,
demands are picking up for new, elastic or real-time, services such as
supports for voice, video, e-commerce, computing applications, and
mission critical data. This evolution has raised the need for new and
more sophisticated solutions in the development of networking
technologies and the underlying infrastructure, and for traffic
management techniques to be able to meet diverse performance
requirements of various applications in a cost-effective manner.

The aim of this conference is to promote discussions on present
developments and experiences, and explore future directions in enhancing
the networking technologies to address these challenges. Technology
experts and scientific researchers are encouraged to submit papers
discussing their research work and experience in the field. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

traffic characterization, traffic modeling, teletraffic theory, queueing
models 
traffic management, routing protocols, congestion and admission control
network dimensioning methods, traffic engineering rules
modeling for QoS differentiation, multi-service and multi-protocol
support 
performance aspects of MPLS
traffic measurements, monitoring and tools
performance of management and operation support systems
policy-based management for the Internet
middleware performance, performance in distributed computing
xDSL, wireless and cable-based access systems: performance modeling,
analysis and experimental results
performance of wireless networks
Web caching, IP multicast, Web server performance
performance of emerging e-commerce applications
performance of multi-tiered systems (e.g., ICT) 
pricing, tariffs and billing

Keynote speaker
Tim Strayer (BBN Technologies), "Privacy in Virtual Private Networks"

Select proceedings
Selected papers of the conference will be published in a Special Issue
of the Elsevier Journal Computer Communications

Submission information and important dates
Interested people are invited to please e-mail an abstract of about 250
words to the program chairs in text, PDF, Postscript or Word format.
Accepted papers will be published in proceedings by SPIE. Accepted
papers will be allocated up to 15 pages in the proceedings.

Abstracts due from authors			21 January, 2002
Author notification of acceptance		25 March, 2002
Manuscripts due from authors			13 May, 2002

Both proposals for sessions on specific "hot topics" and proposals for
panel sessions are welcome. Please submit your proposal to the program
chairs by January 21, 2002.

Conference Chairs
Robert D. van der Mei, KPN Research and Free University of Amsterdam,
E-mail: r.d.vandermei@kpn.com
Frank Huebner-Szabo de Bucs, Concert Technologies, E-mail:
frank.huebner@concert.com 

Program Committee
Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp; Tim Brown, University of
Colorado/Boulder; Joachim Charzinski, Siemens, Germany; Ken Christensen,
University of South Florida; Wai-Sum Lai, AT&T Labs; Steven Low,
California Institute of Technology; Michel Mandjes, Lucent
Technologies/CWI; Paul Reeser, AT&T Labs; Ramon Rodriguez-Dagnino ITESM,
Mexico; Mark Squillante, IBM; Tim Strayer, BBN Technologies; Hideaki
Takagi, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Hans van den Berg, KPN Research,
Netherlands; Carey Williamson, University  of  Calgary;

For more info, please visit
http://spie.org/Conferences/calls/02/itcom/confs/IT201.html.
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		Associate Prof. 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 
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