CFP: IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), Phoenix, Arizona, April 9-11, 2003

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

Workshop on End-to-End Service Differentiation (EESD2003)
in conjunction with
IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference 
(IPCCC)
http://ipccc.org/

Phoenix, Arizona
April 9-11, 2003


Program Co-chairs:
Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada (hossam@cs.queensu.ca)
Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada (hanan@csd.uwo.ca)

Scope:
Differentiated Services (DiffServ)is a proposed architecture
by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in which various
applications are supported using a simple classification scheme.
Packets entering the DiffServ domain are marked depending on the
Packets' class. However, for many QoS-sensitive applications such
as e-commerce and steaming media QoS differentiation at the network-level
only may not be sufficient to guarantee QoS requirements. Such applications
require end-to-end QoS differentiation. End-to-end QoS guarantees
require service differentiation at the network, middleware, operating
system and application levels.

We are interested in visionary, experimental, systems-related and work
in-progress papers in the area of QoS differentiation at the network,
middleware, operating system and application levels. Papers in the form
of extended abstracts should describe original, previously unpublished 
work,
not currently under review by another conference, workshop, or journal.
Papers accepted for presentation will be published in the IPCCC conference
proceedings.  A special issue of a journal has been approved for
selected papers.  The workshop will also include invited papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Differentiated Services Architectures
- Packet classification and marking
- Packet Scheduling
- Differentiated buffer management
- Content-aware switches
- Active network support for QoS differentiation
- Multi-level admission control
- Middleware for QoS server design
- QoS-aware operating systems
- Policy-based QoS differentiation
- Application-level service differentiation
- QoS differentiation for e-commerce and m-commerce
- Multimedia distributed databases
- QoS portability
- QoS aware Web architectures
- Differentiated Web caching
- Real-time scheduling

Organization:

Dates:
  Deadlines for Submissions:  December 2, 2002
  Notification of Acceptance: January 3, 2003
  Camera-Ready Copy Received: January 27, 2003
  Workshop: April 9-11 2003


Submission:
Authors can submit their paper electronically.  To do so, authors should
e-mail a pdf version of their
paper to eesd2003@csd.uwo.ca.  Please do not submit in zipped or compressed
format.

Papers:
Submitted papers should be at most 15 pages.  A cover page must
include a title, descriptive keywords, all author's names, complete mailing
adddresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and an abstract of up
to 150 words.   Papers accepted for presentation will be published in the
IPCCC conference proceedings and selected papers will be considered for a
special issue of an archival journal.   For any further information, please
contact check the workshop web page at 
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/hanan/eesd2003/index.html, the IPCCC web page 
(http://ipccc.org/)
or send e-mail to one of  the program co-chairs.
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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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