(New deadline 31st July 2001)

                              Call For Papers 
                           IEEE Network Magazine
                                      
                          Policy Based Networking
                                      
Guest Editors:

   Steven Wright
   Science & Technology
   Bellsouth
   675 W.Peachtree St. NE
   Atlanta GA 30375
   +1(404)332-2194
   steven.wright@snt.bellsouth.com
   
   Ritu Chadha
   Applied Research
   Telcordia Technologies
   445 South St.
   Morristown NJ 07960
   +1(973)829-4869
   chadha@research.telcordia.com
   
   George Lapiotis
   Applied Research
   Telcordia Technologies
   445 South St.
   Morristown NJ 07960
   +1(973)829-4566
   lapiotis@research.telcordia.com
   
   Scope:
   
   Policies are plans of an organization to achieve its objectives. A
   policy is a persistent specification of an objective to be achieved or
   a set of actions to be performed in the future or as an on-going
   regular activity. Policy based networking is the application of these
   organizational policies in the context of networking. It is usually
   concerned with the implementation of organizational objectives as
   automated operations, management and control systems. In this context
   a policy is a relationship between network objects, such as particular
   groups of network elements, network resources and services, and user
   groups. For example, a bandwidth management policy may apply to all
   routers within a particular region or of a particular type. An
   authorization policy may specify that all members of a department have
   access to a particular service.
   
   Policies may be used to achieve better scaling in network management
   by describing common attributes of groups of objects, typically
   associated with the "role" of that object instance in the network.
   Policies may also be used to express the behavior of objects -
   typically expressed as rules. Rule based policies enhance the
   scalability of network control by (i) facilitating the distribution of
   common control algorithms and (ii) enabling control functions to span
   multi-vendor networks through common abstracted information models.
   Specific policy sets may be applied to automate network administration
   tasks including configuration, performance, security, fault and
   restoration, service provisioning including QoS, and traffic
   engineering. Recent research and standardization efforts provide a
   framework of policy conceptual, functional, and information models.
   However further issues need to be addressed to extend the adoption of
   Policy Based Networking, including scalability, interoperability, and
   applicability to all aspects of network operations, management, and
   control, in Local and Wide Area Networks.
   
   This special issue of IEEE Network Magazine seeks to survey,
   consolidate, and present the state-of-the-art research and engineering
   work in Policy-Based Networking. In particular, we are interested in
   focused tutorial and survey contributions on (but not restricted to)
   the following subject categories:
   
     * Policy representation, validation, conflict resolution,
       negotiation, translation.
       
     * Performance, scalability and security of policy management
       systems.
       
     * Policy information modeling, directories, and databases.
       
     * Network policy standardization.
       
     * Applicability, methods, and prototypes of the policy-oriented
       paradigm to:
       
       Network operations, management and control,
       SLA and QoS management,
       Security and AAA,
       Traffic engineering,
       IP-VPN network management,
       Voice over IP network management.
       
     * Architectural comparisons or integration of Policy Based
       Networking with other approaches, e.g., active networks
       management, TINA, TMN, or agent based approaches.
       
     * Economic evaluations of the linkage between business and service
       level policies and network implementations.
       
   architectures for accessing data services over wired and wireless
   bearer technologies via networks of personal devices
   
Manuscript Submission:

   This special issue will only consider electronic submissions in the
   format of postscript, PDF, or MS WORD. To submit a paper for
   consideration, authors should send your paper to one of the guest
   editors via email. The paper should be included as an email
   attachment, or the author may provide a URL where the file can be
   downloaded.
   
   Indicate which author is to serve as the primary correspondence
   contact.
   
   Provide a contact list for all of the other authors. Please list
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   addresses.
   
   Additional information including "Guidelines for authors" is available
   at the IEEE Network website:
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Schedule:

   Submission Deadline: July 31, 2001
   Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2001
   Final Manuscripts: December 1, 2001
   
   Publication of Special Issue: March/April, 2002
   (*) Authors of papers submitted that are judged to fall outside the
   objectives of this special issue may be notified earlier.