CALL FOR PAPERS
              IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
                                      
                          INTERNET PROXY SERVICES
                                      
   With the rapid growth of the Web in the past few years, proxies have
   become a crucial part of the Internet infrastructure. Acting as an
   intermediary between clients and servers, proxies perform a variety of
   important functions that improve network efficiency and user
   performance for Web and multimedia transfers. For example, proxies
   cache popular resources, anonymize client requests, and transform or
   adapt server responses. Network administrators install proxies to
   reduce network load and user latency, and Web hosting companies use
   proxies to reduce the load on origin servers. In addition, proxies
   form the core part of content distribution networks that replicate and
   distribute data from a variety of locations in the Internet. Possible
   topics include, but are not limited to:
     * Web proxy services (e.g., caching, content adaptation,
       prefetching, anonymization)
     * Multimedia proxy services (e.g., caching, retransmission,
       transcoding, smoothing, recording)
     * Distributed, hierarchical, and cooperative caching
     * Interception proxies and surrogate proxies
     * Content distribution networks
     * Testbeds, prototypes, and commercial products
     * File system, I/O, and operating system issues for proxies
     * Protocol issues for proxies (e.g., HTTP, RTSP, ICAP, ICP, CARP,
       WPAD, etc.)
     * Traffic measurement and performance evaluation of proxies
       
   Original, previously unpublished research articles will be condiered.
   Authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in
   the Information for Authors or on the inside back cover of any issue
   of J-SAC. Prospective authors are requested to e-mail their
   manuscripts as a postscript or pdf attachment to Jennfier Rexford, or
   if this is not possible, to mail six paper copies, according to the
   following timetable:
   
   Manuscript submission:   May 1, 2001
   Acceptance notification: October 1, 2001
   Final manuscript due:    January 1, 2002
   Publication:             2nd Quarter 2002
   
   Jennfier Rexford
   AT&T Labs - Research
   180 Park Avenue, Rm A169
   Florham Park, NJ 07932
   jrex@research.att.com Ellen Zegura
   College of Computing
   Georgia Tech
   Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
   ewz@cc.gatech.edu
   Peter Danzig
   Akamai
   875 College Avenue
   Menlo Park, CA 94025
   danzig@danzigthomas.com Ernst Biersack
   Corporate Communications Dept
   Institut Eurecom
   Sophia Antipolis, France 06904
   erbi@eurecom.fr