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                                CALL FOR PAPERS
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                                  ITCom-2001  
                 
                                conference on 

            Internet Performance and Control of Network Systems II   

                       August 20-24, Denver, Colorado, USA      
                                                               
              
            Web site http://spie.org/web/meetings/calls/itcom01/home.html

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Scope of the conference:

The use of telecommunication services has experienced tremendous growth 
over the past few years. Services have evolved from basic telephony and data
offerings to advanced integrated services over high-speed networks, wireless 
networks and the Internet. At the same time, demands are picking up for new, 
elastic or real-time, services such as supports for voice, video, e-commerce, 
computing applications, and mission critical data. This evolution has raised the 
need for new and more sophisticated solutions in the development of networking 
technologies and the underlying infrastructure, and for traffic management
techniques to be able to meet diverse performance requirements of various 
applications in a cost-effective manner.

The aim of this conference is to promote discussions on present developments and 
experiences in an informal setting,and to explore future directions in enhancing 
the networking technologies to address these challenges. Technology experts and 
scientific researchers are encouraged to submit papers discussing their research 
work and experience in the field. 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- traffic characterization, traffic modeling, teletraffic theory, queueing models 
- traffic management, routing protocols, congestion and admission control
- network dimensioning methods, traffic engineering rules
- modeling for QoS differentiation, multi-service and multi-protocol support 
- traffic measurements, monitoring and tools
- management and operation support systems
- policy-based management for the Internet
- active networks
- middleware performance, performance in distributed computing
- xDSL, wireless, and cable-based access systems: performance modeling, analysis, 
  experimental results
- Internet Protocol over optical networks
- Web caching, IP multicast, Web server performance
- performance requirements of emerging e-commerce applications
- pricing, tariffs, and billing


Keynote speaker:
Tim Brown (University of Boulder, CO)

Select proceedings:
Selected papers of the conference will be published in a Special Issue of the international journal PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Submissions:
Interested people are invited to submit an abstract of about 250 words to the 
program chairs in text, PDF, Postscript or Word format (electronic submissions 
are preferred, the address is listed above). The selected papers will be 
published in on-site proceedings by SPIE. Accepted papers will be allocated up to 
15 pages in the on-site conference proceedings.

	Abstracts due                       19 February, 2001
	Author notification of acceptance   23 April, 2001
	Manuscripts due                     28 May, 2001

Both proposals for sessions on specific hot topics and proposals for panel 
sessions are welcome. Please submit your 
proposal to the program chairs by February 19, 2001.

Conference Chairs:
Robert D. van der Mei, KPN Research, Netherlands, EMAIL r.d.vandermei@kpn.com.
Frank Huebner-Szabo de Bucs, Concert Technologies, USA, EMAIL frank.huebner@concert.com.