Call for Papers

                             IEEE Communications Magazine



                                       Feature Topic on 

     TCP Performance over Emerging High-Speed Networks


Since its launch two decades ago, TCP remains the most dominant end-to-end transport protocol in the Internet and
is likely to be a widely used protocol in the next century. Most popular Internet applications, such as world wide web,
file transfer, e-mail and so on, use the reliable services provided by TCP. The performance perceived by the users of
these applications depend largely on the performance of TCP. Due to the unprecedented growth of the Internet over
the last decade, several new high-speed networking technologies emerged to carry the ever growing volume of
TCP/IP traffic. Internet service providers are implementing ATM, SONET and very recently WDM optical networks
in their backbones. Also, high-speed wireless links in the edges and satellite links in the backbone are being deployed.
Although TCP behaviour over the traditional Ethernet and leased line based Internet was well understood, TCP
performance dynamics over these emerging high-speed networks are less clear. Some of the questions that arise
naturally are: how TCP congestion control algorithms interact with the underlying network protocols? Will TCP
protocol processing overhead become the bottleneck over tera bit per second optical networks? Can we continue to
rely on packet drop at the routers as congestion indication for the TCP for high speed access links? What role the next
generation protocols, such as IPv6, RSVP, can play to help TCP making the best use of the network bandwidth? 

The goal of the feature topic is to publish tutorial articles describing the performance issues, challenges and solutions
for running TCP over the emerging high-speed networks. High quality articles are solicited on topics including, but not
limited to: 

      Performance of TCP/IP over ATM 
      Performance of TCP/IP over SONET 
      Performance of TCP/IP over WDM 
      Router mechanisms to improve TCP performance 
      End-to-end traffic management in IP/ATM Network 
      TCP enhancements for long thin and fat pipes (satellite links) 
      TCP enhancements for high-error rate links (wireless links) 
      TCP performance at terrabit speeds 
      TCP performance improvement using proxies 

Submission Guidelines: 

Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, and
email addresses. Please submit full papers, not previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere to one of
the guest editors electronically (postscript, pdf or MS Word). Please also send a separate email with authors' names,
addresses, fax and telephone numbers, title and abstract of the paper. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic
submission is not possible. 

Guest Editors: 

 Dr. Mahbub Hassan   
 School of Computer Science and Software Engineering 
 Monash University 
 900 Dandenong Road 
 Melbourne, VIC 3145, Australia 
 Tel: +61-3-9903 2122 
 Fax: +61-3-9903 1077 
 Email: mahbub@insect.sd.monash.edu.au 
 WWW:http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/~mahbub 
                                                                 Professor Raj Jain 
                                                                 Department of CIS 
                                                                 The Ohio State University 
                                                                 2015 Neil Avenue, DL 297, 
                                                                 Columbus, OH 43210-1277, USA 
                                                                 Tel: +1-614-292-3989 
                                                                 Fax: +1-614-292-2911 
                                                                 Email: Jain@CIS.Ohio-State.Edu 
                                                                 WWW: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain 


Important Deadlines: 
  
 Submission Deadline :
                                May 31, 2000
 Notification of Acceptance :
                                September 01, 2000
 Final Revised Manuscript Due:
                                October 31, 2000
 Publication of the Issue :
                                April, 2001


Useful Links: 

Magazine home page:http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/index.html 

Author guidelines:http://pubs.comsoc.org/ci1/pub_guidelines.html 

Feature Topic CFP URLs: 
http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/~mahbub/tcpft.html 
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain/confs/tcpft.html