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ITCOM 2001: http://spie.org/web/meetings/calls/itcom01/home.html


Quality of Service over Next-Generation Data Networks (IT302)


 Abstracts for this conference are due by 19 February 2001.
 Manuscripts are due by 28 May 2001. 


       Conference Chair: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Univ. of Oklahoma; Mahbub
       Hassan, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia) 

       Program Committee: Johnson Agbinya, Vodafone (Australia); Michael S.
       Borella, 3Com; Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada); Candan Cankaya,
       Alcatel, USA; Subrata De, Vodafone (Australia); Arjan Durresi, Wu-chi Feng,
       The Ohio State Univ.; Josi Neuman de Souza, Federal Univ. of Ceara (Brazil);
       Nasir Ghani, Sorrento Networks; Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong Univ. of Science
       and Technology (Hong Kong, China); Felix Hartanto, Chinese Univ. of Hong
       Kong; William A. Ivancic, NASA Glenn Research Ctr.; Sanjay Jha, Univ. of New
       South Wales (Australia); Marwan Krunz, Univ. of Arizona; Wai Sum Lai, AT&T
       Labs.; Vinod Mirchandani, Motorola (Australia); Neeraj K. Sharma, Clarkson
       Univ.; Samar Singh, Univ. of California/Riverside; Harsha Sirisena, Univ. of
       Canterbury (New Zealand); Liren Zhang, Nanyang Technological Univ.
       (Singapore); Bing Zheng, Univ. of Dayton 


The best-effort service model of the current Internet does not provide
Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees to multimedia and other
business-critical transactions. The convergence of services through
the Internet means that the next generation data networks will have to
support the negotiation and assurance of QoS. In recognition of this
need, several efforts have been launched. 

The Integrated Services (intserv) service model is based on reserving
resources for those connections or flows that need QoS assurance. To
support this mode of operation, the RSVP signaling protocol has been
developed, although other suitable protocols can be used as well.
Recently, enhancements have been proposed for RSVP to handle
aggregated flows. Complementary to Intserv, the Differentiated
Services model classifies and marks all traffic into several classes at
network entry so that core routers can simply forward packets
according to the QoS requirements of different service classes. In
another direction, the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
paradigm has been developed to enable the efficient support of QoS
and the offering of new QoS capabilities. Currently, new mechanisms
are under investigation to support QoS over wireless access networks
for mobile users. 

Topics to be covered in this conference include: 

      Integrated and Differentiated Services 
      QoS mapping from Integrated Services to Differentiated
      Services 
      Active Buffer Management techniques, ex. RED. 
      LAN QoS 
      Multiprotocol Label Switching 
      QoS guarantees in 3G wireless multimedia networks 
      QoS based routing 
      QoS management in multi-bearer IP networks including
      PSTN, ISDN, satellite, GSM, GPRS and CDMA networks 
      Impact of media compression in QoS networks 
      QoS over Mobile IP 
      QoS enabled MAC design.