Call For Papers 
                           IEEE Network Magazine
                                      
                   Scalability in Communication Networks
                                      
Guest Editor:

   Amitabh Mishra
   Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
   Virginia Tech
   2040H Torgersen Hall
   Blacksburg, VA 24061
   +1 (540) 231-9689
   mishra@vt.edu
   
Scope:

        Scalability has always been an important issue in communication
   architectures. Network equipment vendors as well as service providers
   face the scalability challenge on a day-to-day basis. The former need
   to design systems, which are scalable at the application level to be
   provisioned by the latter in service. For a network system,
   scalability is dependent on the hardware architecture, application
   software architecture, underlying operating system, size of the data,
   and its communication protocols. Due to the heterogeneity of not only
   network equipment and network-based services but also service
   providers themselves, the scalability challenges have become even more
   critical. In those cases, where the Internet has become the main
   communications infrastructure; the scalability issues are further
   aggravated. Large networks such as the Internet have some fundamental
   scalable limitations when it comes to managing individual traffic
   flows. While Internet protocols such as RSVP are believed to be
   non-scalable, the scalability of MPLS, IntServ and DiffServ have yet
   to be studied.
        This special issue of IEEE Network seeks to present a series of
   state-of-the-art papers on scalability issues in communication
   networks. In particular, we are interested in tutorial and survey
   articles on, but not limited to, the following set of topics:
    1. Scalability in Switching Systems
    2. Scalability in Communications Services
    3. Scalable Network Architectures
    4. Network Protocols and Scalability
    5. Scalable Signaling Architectures
    6. Admission Control & Scalability
    7. QoS and Scalability
    8. Scalability in Wireless Networks
    9. Scalability issues in the Internet & other IP based networks
   10. Scalability issues in Routing
   11. Scalability of Network and Service Provisioning
   12. Scalability of Service Assurance
   13. Scalability of Network Management
       
Manuscript Submission:

        This special issue will only consider electronic submissions in
   postscript, PDF, or MS Word formats. To submit a paper for
   consideration, authors need to contact the guest editor via email. The
   paper should be included as an email attachment, or authors may
   provide a URL from where the file can be downloaded.
        Please indicate which author is to serve as the primary
   correspondence contact. For each author please list affiliation,
   mailing address, phone/fax numbers, and email address.
        Additional information including "Guidelines for Authors" is
   available at the IEEE Network Website:
   http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/techcom/ntwrk/authors.html
   
Schedule:

   Submission Deadline: November 15, 2001
   Acceptance Notification: February 15, 2002
   Final Manuscript Due: April 1, 2002
   Publication of Special Issue: July/August, 2002