CALL FOR PAPERS
              IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
                                      
                NETWORK SUPPORT FOR MULTICAST COMMUNICATIONS
                                      
   We have reached a point in the development of the Internet where there
   is an alignment in the demand for potentially high quality multimedia
   data (audio, video) and the growing population of users with high
   bandwidth connectivity to and through the Internet. This is
   stimulating significant research on the development and deployment of
   multicasting technologies, both as networking and as application-level
   solutions to the transport of media to thousands and, even, millions
   of users. Moreover many other applications, such as teleconferencing,
   computer supported collaborative work (CSCW), and distributed games
   can benefit from these multicasting technologies. It is also safe to
   assume that there are many as-of-yet unforeseen applications that will
   require multicast communication support.
   
   This issue of the journal will collect and archive the state of the
   art in the provision and support of multicast communication in
   existing and future network technologies. Manuscripts are solicited in
   all aspects of multicast communications. Areas of interest include,
   but are not limited to:
     * Multicast routing
     * Multicast switching architectures and their performance
     * Multicast end-to-end transmission control; reliability, congestion
       control
     * Security issues in multicast communication
     * Multicast provisioning, pricing and QoS related issues
     * Deployment and management of multicast networks
     * Application-layer multicast
     * Performance evaluation of multicast communications
     * Novel multicast applications
       
   Papers not deemed suitable by the editors to this issue will be
   returned immediately to the authors.
   
   Original, previously unpublished research articles will be considered.
   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 one of the guest
   editors listed below, or if this is not possible, to mail the
   submission, according to the timetable listed below.
   
   Manuscript submission:   September 1, 2001
   Acceptance notification: February 1, 2002
   Final manuscript due:    March 1, 2002
   Publication:             3rd Quarter 2002
   
   Christophe Diot
   Sprint ATL
   1 Andrian Court
   Burlingame, CA 94010
   cdiot@sprintlabs.com Brian Neil Levine
   Dept of Computer Science
   Univ of Massachusetts
   Amherst, MA 01003-4610
   brian@cs.umass.edu
   Luigi Rizzo
   Dip Ing dell'Informazione
   Universita di Pisa
   via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 Pisa
   Italy
   luigi@iet.unipi.it Don Towsley
   Dept of Computer Science
   Univ of Massachusetts
   Amherst, MA 01003-4610
   towsley@cs.umass.edu