Call for Papers

             IEEE Communications Magazine

                Internet Technology Series

                      Series Editors

Michah Lerner (AT&T) and Khaled Elsayed (Cairo University)

                         IP in 2005 
         Scalability, Programmability, and Virtualization in the Internet

The scalable Internet presents challenges and paradoxes. Scalable and malleable
services leverage stateless distributed control over the global address space. Transport
bindings nevertheless influence service behavior through the control of access, the
logical flow of information, as well as the availability of diverse content. Such systems
challenge the traditional traffic engineering methods for allocation of buffers and
assignment of resources. The Internet Technology series of the IEEE Communications
Magazine is calling for original tutorial papers about these challenges and their
resolution, and suggest the following topics: 

         Scalability issues in BGP and routing tables 
         Clouds (native IP) vs. strings (MPLS) - Internet evolution choices 
         Programmable routers - architectures and services 
         Instantiation and Virtualization - IP services provide concrete
         capabilities through the structuring of resources. 
         Virtualization of the transport service layers - such as pervasive virtual
         private networks 
         Internet services - multilevel and location-aware mobile services,
         including voice over IP (VoIP) 

IEEE Communications Magazine is read by tens of thousands of Communications
Society members. The papers will be available on the Internet through
Communications Magazine Interactive, the WWW edition of the magazine. Details
about IEEE Communications Magazine can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/ci/. 

Sample publications published within the Internet Technology Series can be found in
the January 2001 and July 2001 issues of the IEEE Communicarions Magazine. 

Tentative Schedule


 Manuscripts due:		Nov 1, 2001
 Notification of acceptance:	Jan 15, 2002  
				(for the April 2002 issue)
 Final copy due:		One month before final publication date
 Prospective Magazine issues:	April, August, and Oct. 2002


How to Submit Manuscripts

Article Style Information 
========================= 
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 copyedited for 
compliance with the magazine's style guidelines. Page proofs will be 
sent to the contact author for final review prior to publication. 

Mathematical equations should not be used unless they are vital to the 
presentation. Even then, they should be kept to a minimum. If the 
article has numerous equations, please contact the editor handling the 
manuscript. 

References should be included only to guide readers to more information 
on the topic; the reference list should not include every available 
source (a limit of ten references is recommended). Use footnotes only 
where necessary. 

Articles should not exceed 4500 words. 

Figures and tables should be limited to a combined total of six. If the 
article exceeds these recommended limits, please contact the editor 
handling the manuscript. 

Submission 
========================= 
Electronic submission of manuscripts as either PDF (preferred) or Postscript is
required. 
Please send your submission  to both of the series editors: 
Khaled Elsayed: khaled@ieee.org 
Michah Lerner: michah@ieee.org