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                              Call for papers

      Storage Networking Solutions over IP or Internet infrastructure

                                 April 2002

         The networking infrastructure facilitating applications of
   Storage Networking technology is going through significant
   evolutionary/revolutionary changes. The networking approaches have
   matured beyond the initial SAN and NAS approaches by acceptance of
   Internet as the dominant infrastructure and the debate has shifted
   towards the variety of Internet infrastructure based approaches.
   Traditional backend centric networking is competing with wide open
   Internet based solutions. To this, we are inviting technical papers to
   present the in-depth analysis, architecture and issues associated with
   individual approaches. Examples of the topics are provided below to
   guide the potential authors in selecting the specific areas. The
   objective of this special feature in the premium publication of IEEE
   Communication Magazine with collection of several papers is to
   illuminate the areas of current and future focus of development and
   consideration for our readers to find objective viewpoints and
   differentiating attributes behind the networking technology from the
   total solution perspective.
        The articles are expected to include tutorial, issues,
   architectural and emerging technology papers with competing viewpoints
   on:
     * Standardization activities, focus, goal and status on IP based
       storage networking;
     * Approaches based on iSCSI, iFCP FCIP, SoIP and the competitive
       analysis;
     * Security and VPN applications within storage networking; and
     * Facilitating multimedia storage networking over single unified IP
       infrastructure.

        Please submit your abstract (300 words or less) no later than
   November 15, 2001 and the full papers must be submitted no later than
   November 30, 2001. It is our rule that each article should have no
   more than 4,500 words, no more than 6 figures+tables, no more than 15
   references, and no more than 35 mathematical equations.
        For more details, please follow the IEEE Communications Magazine
   submission guidelines as available from the http://www.comsoc.org/ci.
   The mailing address and the contact information for this feature topic
   is:

   Tapan K. Lala
   Industry Consultant
   4350 Bella Madeira Lane
   San Jose, CA 95127
   tklala@hotmail.com 408 772 7085