NEW: The deadline for paper submissions is extended to December 15, 2001 

                           Call for Papers

    2001 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing

                           May 29-31, 2001
                          Dallas, Texas USA 

           Workshop website: www.seas.smu.edu/~tchen/hpsr/


Conference Scope:

The 2001 IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing will
be held in Dallas, Texas, near the "Telecom Corridor" constituted by
Nortel Networks, Ericsson, Alcatel, Nokia, Cisco Systems, and other
major industry leaders. The 2001 Workshop will include presentations
on original research in two parallel tracts and a day of tutorials.
While previous workshop have focused on ATM networking, the scope of
the workshops have been continually expanding to switching and
routing aspects of IP, optical networks, and wireless communications.

The purpose of the conference is to share research, experiences, and
ideas among researchers, developers, and service providers in the
field of data, voice and multimedia communications using ATM, IP, and
other high-speed switching and routing technologies. Original papers
are invited on such topics as (but not limited to):

      - ATM networks
      - Optical networks
      - Gigabit/terabit routers
      - ATM/IP integration
      - IP/WDM integration
      - MPLS
      - Programmable networks
      - 3G/4G network evolution
      - Routing and signaling protocols
      - Traffic engineering and control
      - Quality of service
      - Performance measurement and evaluation
      - Network management and operations
      - Tariffing, accounting, and charging

Instructions for Authors:

Send an electronic version of your submission to the General Chair.
Submissions should be extended abstracts (2000 to 3000 words)
summarizing original work. A title page should contain the title of
the paper, the authors' name(s), affiliation, address, telephone and
fax numbers, e-mail of the corresponding author. Electronic
submissions in postscript or PDF are strongly encouraged.

Proposals for tutorials are also invited. Proposals should include a
description of the topic, presenter's name and contact information,
and a brief biography.

Important dates:

Extended abstracts and tutorial proposals due: November 30, 2000
Authors notified: February 15, 2001
Final camera ready papers (4500 words max.) due: March 15, 2001

Questions and submissions may be directed to: 

Prof. Thomas Chen
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
PO Box 750338
SMU
Dallas, Texas 75275 USA
Tel: +1 (214) 768-8541
Fax: +1 (214) 768-3573
Email: tchen@seas.smu.edu