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                        CALL FOR PAPERS
             IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

              ACTIVE AND PROGRAMMABLE NETWORKS 

Scope:
Recent advances in active network technology, open signaling and control, distributed
systems, service creation, resource allocation and transportable software are driving a
reexamination of existing network software architectures and the evolution of control and
management systems away from traditional constrained solutions. The ability to
dynamically create, deploy and manage new network architectures, protocols and
services in response to user demands is creating a paradigm shift in telecommunications.
Network researchers are exploring new ways in which network switches, routers and
base stations can be dynamically programmed by network applications, users, operators
and third parties to accelerate network innovation. 

This trend reflects the acceptance of computing paradigms in telecommunication
networks. Programmable networks seek to exploit advanced software techniques and
technologies in order to make network infrastructure more flexible, thereby allowing
users and service providers to customize network elements to meet their own specific
needs. Customizing routing, signaling, resource allocation and accelerating information
processing in this manner raises a number of significant security, reliability and
performance issues that need to be resolved. 

Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished papers addressing various aspects of
programmable networks. 

Suggested topics:
       Advances in active networks 
       Open and innovative signaling
       systems 
       Programming abstractions and
       interfaces for networks 
       Service creation platforms 
       Programming for mobility 
       Programming for QOS 
       Intelligent agents and trading 
       Distributed computing models and
       algorithms 
       Security in an open object world 
       Support of multiple control planes 
       Control and resource APIs and
       object representations 
       Performance of control
       architectures 
                                           Experimental architectures and
                                           implementation techniques 
                                           Enabling technologies, platforms and
                                           languages (CORBA, WWW, Java,
                                           ...) 
                                           Reliability of programmable
                                           networking technologies 
                                           Modeling of network services 
                                           Programmability support for virtual
                                           networks 
                                           Interactive multimedia, multi-party
                                           cooperation and groupware 
                                           Pricing and real-time billing 
                                           Secure transactions processing and
                                           electronic commerce 
                                           Active networks in telephony 


Submission Details: 
                Initial Manuscript Submission:
                                          April 15, 2000
                Acceptance Notification:
                                          July 17, 2000
                Final Paper Due:
                                          September 15, 2000
                Publication Date:
                                          1st Quarter 2001


Electronic submission is preferred; please see comet.columbia.edu/jsac for submission
instructions. If electronic submission is not possible, please send six copies of the
manuscript to Andrew T. Campbell or Kenneth L. Calvert 

   Kenneth L. Calvert
   Dept of Computer
   Science
   773 Anderson Hall
   Univeristy of Kentucky
   Lexington, KY
   40506-0046
   calvert@dcs.uky.edu
                         Andrew T. Campbell
                         Dept of Electrical Engineering
                         1312 Seeley W. Mudd Bldg
                         Columbia University
                         New York, NY 10027-6699
                         campbell@comet.columbia.edu
                                                      Aurel A. Lazar
                                                      Xbind, Inc
                                                      55 Broad Street
                                                      Suite 13C
                                                      New York, NY
                                                      10004
                                                      aurel@xbind.com

            David L. Tennenhouse
            Intel Corporation
            M/S RNB6-37
            220 Mission College Blvd
            Santa Clara, CA 95052-8119
            david.tennenhouse@intel.com
                                       Raj Yavatkar
                                       Internet Architecture Labs
                                       Intel Corporation
                                       JF3-206, NE 25th Ave
                                       Hilsboro, OR 97124
                                       raj.yavatkar@intel.com