Subject: [Diffserv] CFP Special Session on Interworking of Diffserv, RSVP and MPLS

From: Junaid Zubairi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 18:31:48 -0700 (PDT)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Session on Interworking of Diffserv, RSVP and
MPLS for achieving QoS in the Internet

Twelfth IASTED International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS
2000)
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
November 6-9, 2000

http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2000/lasvegas/pdcscfp.htm

(Submission Deadline:  August 14, 2000)

Scope:
The traffic on the Internet is increasingly changing
from best-effort
to time-sensitive however the Internet is not ready
yet for supporting
this changing traffic. IETF (Internet Engineering Task
Force) is
developing new protocols and techniques for supporting
QoS (Quality of
Service) in private networks as well as the global
Internet. Among the
new protocols, RSVP provides quantitative guarantees
to each flow
whereas Diffserv provides qualitative assurances by
using PHB (per hop
behavior) for packets marked with DSCP (DS
codepoints). MPLS has been
developed to accelerate routing of traffic aggregates
destined towards
a common point by using LSP (Label Switched Paths) so
that the
intermediate routers do not have to make a routing
decision. MPLS also
leverages the cost of ATM switches by mapping LSP's to
VPI/VCI for
IP over ATM.

A special session on Interworking of these protocols
will be organized
at the PDCS 2000 conference. This session will serve
as a forum to
present the latest research and simulation results of
works by
international researchers, developers, and users. 
Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

Integrated operation of Intserv and Diffserv  for
edge-to-edge QoS flows
Aggregation of flows for scaling of RSVP
VoIP performance over Diffserv networks
Traffic Engineering Architecture for the Internet
Jitter characteristics in a Diffserv domain
Scheduling at nodes in a Diffserv domain
Mapping ATM CoS to Diffserv 
Voice over MPLS
Performance of RSVP-MPLS architecture
FR/MPLS Network and service interworking
Inter-provider MPLS signaling and LSP routing
COPS Policy Server/Bandwidth Broker implementation
issues

Paper Submission
Submission should include authors names, affiliations,
addresses and
email addresses, on the cover page.  Submission
implies the willingness
of at least one of the authors to register and present
the paper.  Please
submit full paper, not exceeding 10 pages in length
(single-space) in
PS or PDF format for consideration, to session
organizer at
[email-masked] by August 14, 2000 via email. 
Include up to
5 keywords and an abstract of no more than 250 words. 
On a separate
sheet, include paper's title, author(s) names and
affiliation, postal
address, email, fax, and phone numbers.  Indicate
address for
correspondence.

Proceedings
All papers selected for this session by peer-review
process will be
published in the PDCS'2000 conference proceedings
through IASTED Press, USA.

Session Organizer:
Dr. Junaid Ahmed Zubairi
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
College at Fredonia, State University of New York,
Fredonia, NY 14063, USA
Tel: +1-716-673-4694
(During summer 2000,Tel: 00-603-2056-4552)
Fax: +1-508-256-8324
Email: [email-masked]
WWW: http://www.cs.fredonia.edu/~zubairi

Important Dates:
Draft Papers due on: August 14, 2000
Notification of Acceptance: August 22, 2000
Final Manuscripts and Preregistration due on:
September 15, 2000

If you have questions concerning session paper
submission or session
content, please contact the special session organizer
at the address
above.  If you have questions concerning conference
paper submissions
or program, please contact Conference Program
Co-Chairs.

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