CFP : IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Internet Quality of Service Routing

CFP : IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Internet Quality of Service Routing
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Call For Papers IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on Internet Quality of Service Routing Guest Editors Marwan M. Krunz Ibrahim Matta Dept. Electrical & Computer Eng. Computer Science Dept. University of Arizona Boston University Tucson, AZ 85721 Boston, MA 02215 Email: krunz@ece.arizona.edu Email: matta@cs.bu.edu Phone: (520) 621-8731 Phone: (617) 358-1062 Fax: (520) 621-3862 Fax: (617) 353-6457 Scope QoS routing represents a radical shift from the traditional connectivity-based approach of currently deployed intra-domain (e.g., OSPF) and inter-domain (e.g., BGP) routing protocols. It calls for QoS-sensitive scalable solutions for path selection, state dissemination, multicasting, and topology aggregation. Emerging Internet services such as Differentiated Services (Diffserv) and Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) are likely to both require and justify the need for QoS-based routing solutions. This is reflected in a number of recent standardization activities that acknowledge the importance of QoS routing and that call for efficient, scalable solutions to it. Nonetheless, it has been recently recognized that existing QoS routing solutions have been developed at some distance from the task of development of QoS architectures. In particular, current QoS architectural models, including Diffserv, seem to implicitly assume that various classes of traffic are forwarded along the same (best-effort) path, with service differentiation being achieved locally through appropriate packet scheduling at each router. Decoupling routing and QoS provisioning can lead to inefficient selection of routes, reducing the likelihood of meeting the applications' end-to-end QoS requirements. In recent years, extensive research has been published on QoS routing mechanisms, often in the context of traffic engineering. Several issues have been adequately addressed, while others remain to be tackled. The purpose of this Feature Topic is to summarize the state-of-the-art in QoS routing research. We solicit tutorial research articles and surveys that report on experimental and theoretical studies related to QoS routing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: [astrbul1e.gif] Constraint-based path selection algorithms [astrbul1e.gif] Scalable state dissemination [astrbul1e.gif] Stateless QoS routing frameworks [astrbul1e.gif] Topology aggregation for hierarchical, QoS-based routing [astrbul1e.gif] QoS routing for traffic engineering [astrbul1e.gif] Fault-tolerant routing [astrbul1e.gif] Tradeoff between scalability and performance in QoS routing [astrbul1e.gif] QoS routing in optical networks [astrbul1e.gif] Multicast routing [astrbul1e.gif] Impact of Internet topologies on QoS routing [astrbul1e.gif] Localized QoS routing solutions [astrbul1e.gif] QoS routing in mobile and ad-hoc networks [astrbul1e.gif] Tools for evaluating QoS routing mechanisms Submission Instructions Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts by email as an attachment to one of the guest editors. Acceptable formats are limited to Postscript and PDF. Paper submission should adhere to the submission guidelines of the IEEE Communications Magazine. In particular, submitted articles should be tutorial in nature and should be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty of the article. Articles may be edited for content, and will be copy edited for compliance with the magazine's style guidelines. Page proofs will be sent to the contact author for final review prior to publication. Details of the submission guidelines can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/~ci (under Submissions). Submissions should indicate the name and contact information (address, phone, fax, email) of the corresponding author. Tentative Schedule Submission Deadline: June 30, 2001 Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2001 Final Manuscripts Due: November 30, 2001 Publication Date: March 2002

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                              Call For Papers
   
                        IEEE Communications Magazine
   
            Feature Topic on Internet Quality of Service Routing
   
   Guest Editors
   
        Marwan M. Krunz                                  Ibrahim Matta
        Dept. Electrical & Computer Eng.         Computer Science Dept.
      University of Arizona                           Boston University
           Tucson, AZ 85721                           Boston, MA 02215
   
         Email: krunz@ece.arizona.edu            Email: matta@cs.bu.edu
               Phone: (520) 621-8731                     Phone: (617)
                                  358-1062
              Fax: (520) 621-3862                          Fax: (617)
                                  353-6457
   
   Scope
   
   QoS routing represents a radical shift from the traditional
   connectivity-based approach  of currently deployed intra-domain (e.g.,
   OSPF) and inter-domain (e.g., BGP) routing protocols. It calls for
   QoS-sensitive scalable solutions for path selection, state
   dissemination, multicasting, and topology aggregation. Emerging
   Internet services such as Differentiated Services (Diffserv) and
   Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) are likely to both require and
   justify the need for QoS-based routing solutions. This is reflected in
   a number of recent standardization activities that acknowledge the
   importance of QoS routing and that call for efficient, scalable
   solutions to it. Nonetheless, it has been recently recognized that
   existing QoS routing solutions have been developed at some distance
   from the task of development of QoS architectures. In particular,
   current QoS architectural models, including Diffserv, seem to
   implicitly assume that various classes of traffic are forwarded along
   the same (best-effort) path, with service differentiation being
   achieved locally through appropriate packet scheduling at each router.
   Decoupling routing and QoS provisioning can lead to inefficient
   selection of routes, reducing the likelihood of  meeting the
   applications' end-to-end QoS requirements.
   
   In recent years, extensive research has been published on QoS routing
   mechanisms, often in the context of traffic engineering. Several
   issues have been adequately addressed, while others remain to be
   tackled. The purpose of this Feature Topic is to summarize the
   state-of-the-art in QoS routing research. We solicit tutorial research
   articles and surveys that report on experimental and theoretical
   studies related to QoS routing. Topics of interest include, but are
   not limited to, the following:
   
   [astrbul1e.gif] Constraint-based path selection algorithms
   [astrbul1e.gif] Scalable state dissemination
   [astrbul1e.gif] Stateless QoS routing frameworks
   [astrbul1e.gif] Topology aggregation for hierarchical, QoS-based
   routing
   [astrbul1e.gif] QoS routing for traffic engineering
   [astrbul1e.gif] Fault-tolerant routing
   [astrbul1e.gif] Tradeoff between scalability and performance in QoS
   routing
   [astrbul1e.gif] QoS routing in optical networks
   [astrbul1e.gif] Multicast routing
   [astrbul1e.gif] Impact of Internet topologies on QoS routing
   [astrbul1e.gif] Localized QoS routing solutions
   [astrbul1e.gif] QoS routing in mobile and ad-hoc networks
   [astrbul1e.gif] Tools for evaluating QoS routing mechanisms
   
   Submission Instructions
   
   Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts by email as an
   attachment to one of the guest editors. Acceptable formats are limited
   to Postscript and PDF. Paper submission should adhere to the
   submission guidelines of the IEEE Communications Magazine. In
   particular, submitted articles should be tutorial in nature and should
   be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty
   of the article. Articles may be edited for content, and will be copy
   edited for compliance with the magazine's style guidelines. Page
   proofs will be sent to the contact author for final review prior to
   publication. Details of the submission guidelines can be found at
   http://www.comsoc.org/~ci (under Submissions).
   
   Submissions should indicate the name and contact information (address,
   phone, fax, email) of the corresponding author.
   
   Tentative Schedule
   
   Submission Deadline: June 30, 2001
   Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2001
   Final Manuscripts Due: November 30, 2001
   Publication Date: March 2002