Special Issue of the Transactions of the Society for Computer
Simulation-Part B on:

 
                Performance Modeling and Simulation of ATM
                        Systems and Networks 


Guest Editor: Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat,

ATM is one of the major enabling technologies of high-speed networking. It is
the first technology that offers a corporation the capability to use a common
enterprise-wide protocol and infrastructure for all voice, data, and video
communications. ATM excels when applications require specific quality of
service (QoS) and reserved bandwidth. ATM offers combined switching and
routing within the WAN, as well as a backbone technology of choice for
high-performance, QoS-aware campus backbone, coexisting with IP and LAN
switching. These are the main key features that allow ATM to become the common
platform for enterprise-wide computer communications. ATM allows a user to
send voice, video, and data from his/her computer to peer nodes anywhere
across the WAN. Furthermore, ATM provides the infrastructure of a seamless
single protocol for all traffic types. It offers economies of scale in network
infrastructure through by integrating different traffic types. ATM is more
efficient than multiple separate networks. The trend is that traditional
telecom carriers as well as many Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
increasingly rely on ATM in their backbone infrastructure. It is a
multiplexing and switching technology that provides flexibility, versatility,
and scalability. ATM offers a tighter coupling between the user application
and network protocol. It places intelligence into the WAN making the network
smarter and allowing the network to become more like a computer and less than
a dump transport medium. ATM excels when it is desirable for applications with
different performance, QoS, and business requirements to be performed on the
same computer multiplexer, router, switch, and/or network. ATM enables network
managers to flexibly adapt to changing enterprise communications requirements,
evolving business environment, and fluctuating traffic volumes and patterns
Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

- IP over ATM
- TCP over ATM
- ATM over WDM  and DWDM
- ATM switching/switches
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- ATM LANs
- LAN Emulation (LANE)
- Connection Admission Control (CAC) protocols
- Multiservice ATM multiplexers
- Voice over ATM
- ATM traffic management
- Traffic and congestion control
- Traffic Shaping
- Delay and loss priority control

- Flow control and congestion avoidance
- Buffering techniques
- IP/ATM vs. IP/SONET
- Wireless ATM (WATM)
- Tools, Methodologies, and Applications
- Intelligent ATM networks
- ATM over Satellite systems
- ATM over xDSL
- ATM Cable Modem
- MultiProtocol Over ATM (MPOA)
- ATM-based cellular networks


Special Issue Guest Editor

Prof. Mohammad S. Obaidat, Department of Computer Science, Monmouth University
, West Long Branch, NJ 07764, U.S.A.
Tel: 732-571-4482, e-mail: obaidat@monmouth.edu

Prospective authors are invited to submit electronically using word, ps, or
pdf format their full papers that should not exceed 20 double-spaced pages
including all illustrations by May 1, 2001 to the guest editor. Only original
and previously unpublished papers are considered. If electronic submission is
not possible, send five hard copies of the manuscript to the guest editor at
his address listed above. All submitted papers will undergo the standard
review procedure established by the Transactions of the Society for Computer
Simulation.

Schedule

Submission Deadline of full papers: July 31, 2001
Notification of Acceptance: October 15,  2001
Final Manuscript Due: December 1, 2001
Tentative Publication Date: March 2002