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Call for Papers
ITC Specialist Seminar on
IP Traffic Measurement, Modeling and Management
http://www.itc-iac.org/IPseminar
September 18-20 2000, Monterey California

Sponsors: IFIP, AT&T, Microsoft

Purpose and Scope:
The need to measure, characterize, and derive tractable models for IP
traffic has become critical with the tremendous growth in the public
Internet and enterprise IP networks. This seminar will provide a workshop
setting for an exchange of ideas and results between researchers and
practitioners in this important area. One of the seminar's objectives is to
bring together the teletraffic and Internet communities for an exchange of
perspectives on traffic and performance modeling, traffic management, and
the design of the evolving IP networks. The scope of the seminar includes
the following areas:

Traffic measurement
	measurement techniques and tool
	traffic trends and patterns
	definition of performance metrics        
	load and performance monitoring

Traffic and performance modeling
	characterization at packet, flow and application levels
	accounting for self similarity and multifractal behavior
	effects of short-range versus long-range dependence 
	model validation and experiments

Traffic management and QoS models
	traffic classification and service differentiation
	QoS routing 
	admission control
	role of pricing

Network design methodology
	traffic matrix inference
	dimensioning procedures
	MPLS traffic engineering


Paper Submission:
You are invited to submit original papers within the above scope. Send
electronic manuscripts in PDF, Postscript or Word format to rdalton@att.com
by March 15, 2000. Final paper length will be limited to 10 pages (around
5000 words). The paper should include an abstract with a clear contribution
statement, complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the
phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author. 

Seminar Chair:				IAC Liaison:
Yoni Levy, AT&T Labs			Pat Wirth, AT&T Labs

Technical Program Committee:
Mark Crovella, Boston University (Co-chair)
Jim Roberts, France Telecom (Co-chair)   
T. Asami, KDD Laboratories
D. Awduche, UUNET
H. van den Berg, KPN Research
T. Bonald, France Telecom
T. Brown, University of Colorado
A. Casaca, INESC, Portugal
K. Claffy, CAIDA
B. Doshi, Lucent Technologies
N. Duffield, AT&T Labs Research
A. Gilbert, AT&T Labs Research
R. Guerin, Univ. of Pennsylvania
D. Heyman, AT&T Labs
K. Kawashima, NTT
P. Key, Microsoft Research
K. Krishnan, Telcordia Technologies
P. Kuehn, University of Stuttgart
T.V. Lakshman, Lucent Technologies
A. Leon-Garcia, Univ. of Toronto
Y. Levy, AT&T Labs
A. Makowski, University of Maryland
T. Ott, Telcordia Technologies
V. Paxson, ACIRI
K. Sohraby, University of Missouri 
D. Towsley, Univ. of Massachusetts
J. Yan, Nortel Networks, Canada
M. Zukerman, Univ. of Melbourne

Organizing Committee:
Frank Huebner, AT&T Labs (Chair)
R. Dalton, AT&T Labs
R. Phillips, GTE
                                           
Schedule:	Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2000
          	Notification of Paper Acceptance: June 15, 2000
          	Final paper due: July 15, 2000
         	Seminar: September 18-20, 2000

Venue: 	DoubleTree Hotel and Conference Center, 
		Monterey, California
            http://www.doublereemonterey.com