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Call For Papers 
                          Feature Topic for December 2000 IEEE Communications Magazine on 
                                 Scalable High-Speed Switches/Routers with QoS Support

The continued tremendous growth of traffic traversing the core of the Internet coupled with the variety of services that the Internet is expected to provide brings
two main challenges to the design and implementation of packet switches (IP Routers, ATM switches, Gigabit Ethernet switches and Frame Relay switches):
queue management and packet forwarding. First, to keep pace with the growth in Internet usage, we need higher capacity packet switches with aggregate data
rates of multiple terabits per second coupled with fowarding rates of billions of packets per second. Limitations in memory bandwidth and interconnect
technology, along with the challenges of system packaging and managing system power mean that new architectures and techniques are needed to keep pace
with capacity requirements. Second, so long as the network capacity is limited, there will be a need to provision a variety of service classes for users whose
traffic requires special service, such as guaranteed delay, bounded delay variation, minimal packet loss or controlled access. While it is generally well known
how to provide these services at low speed, it is a matter of research and investigation to determine how they can be delivered in a very high capacity network. 

It is the purpose of this special issue to review new techniques, architectures and technologies that make possible the provision of differentiated qualities of
service in very high capacity packet switches. 

Topics to be covered include (but not limited to): 

      The practical provision of QoS for Input-queued Switches, or switches with combined input and output queueing 
      Multiprotocol Label Switching, IP Switching, and Tag Switching and their support for QoS 
      Differentiated services on switches/routers 
      Queueing and buffer management for multi-class architectures 
      Novel architectures for scalable switches/routers 
      Optical switches/routers 
      Performance analysis 
      Integration of routing and switching 
      Real QoS-oriented switches/routers deployment and operator experiences 

IEEE Communications Magazine is intended for a general readership. Accordingly, the feature topic issue will focus on practical and experimental studies rather
than theoretical modeling and analysis. Submissions should be oriented towards understanding methodologies, practice, and field experiences. All submissions
should follow IEEE Communications Magazine style requirements (Please see http://www.comsoc.org/~ci) and will be peer reviewed. 

Prospective authors should email their manuscripts in electronic form (postscript, pdf, or MS format) to one of the feature topic editors, and should follow the
following schedule: 

Manuscripts due: March 15, 2000 
Acceptance Notification: June 1, 2000 
Final Manuscript due: August 1, 2000 
Publication Date: December 2000 

Guest Editors

Mounir Hamdi Department of Computer Science Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Email: Tel: (852)
2358 6984 Fax: (852) 2358 1477 

Nick Mckeown Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-9030 USA Email: Tel: (650) 725-3641 Fax: (650) 725-6949