Call for Papers

Conference on Internet, Performance & Control of Network Systems III
part of SPIE's

ITCom 2002: Showcasing Communication, Networking, Computing and Storage
Technologies and Applications
30-31 July, 2002, Boston, MA, USA

The use of telecommunication services has experienced tremendous growth over
the past few years. Services have evolved from basic telephony and data
offerings to advanced integrated services over high-speed networks, wireless
networks and the Internet. For example, the Internet traffic is doubling in
size every 100 days; analysts are estimating more than 1 billion users
worldwide early in the 21st century. At the same time, demands are picking up
for new, elastic or real-time, services such as supports for voice, video,
e-commerce, computing applications, and mission critical data. This evolution
has raised the need for new and more sophisticated solutions in the development
of networking technologies and the underlying infrastructure, and for traffic
management techniques to be able to meet diverse performance requirements of
various applications in a cost-effective manner.

The aim of this conference is to promote discussions on present developments
and experiences, and explore future directions in enhancing the networking
technologies to address these challenges. Technology experts and scientific
researchers are encouraged to submit papers discussing their research work and
experience in the field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
the following:

traffic characterization, traffic modeling, teletraffic theory, queueing models 
traffic management, routing protocols, congestion and admission control
network dimensioning methods, traffic engineering rules
modeling for QoS differentiation, multi-service and multi-protocol support 
performance aspects of MPLS
traffic measurements, monitoring and tools
performance of management and operation support systems
policy-based management for the Internet
middleware performance, performance in distributed computing
xDSL, wireless and cable-based access systems: performance modeling, 
  analysis and experimental results
performance of wireless networks
Web caching, IP multicast, Web server performance
performance of emerging e-commerce applications
performance of multi-tiered systems (e.g., ICT) 
pricing, tariffs and billing

Keynote speaker
Tim Strayer (BBN Technologies), "Privacy in Virtual Private Networks"

Select proceedings
Selected papers of the conference will be published in a Special Issue of the
Elsevier Journal Computer Communications

Submission information and important dates
Interested people are invited to please e-mail an abstract of about 250 words
to the program chairs in text, PDF, Postscript or Word format. Accepted papers
will be published in proceedings by SPIE. Accepted papers will be allocated up
to 15 pages in the proceedings.

Abstracts due from authors                      21 January, 2002
Author notification of acceptance               25 March, 2002
Manuscripts due from authors                    13 May, 2002

Both proposals for sessions on specific "hot topics" and proposals for panel
sessions are welcome. Please submit your proposal to the program chairs by
January 21, 2002.

Conference Chairs
Robert D. van der Mei, KPN Research and Free University of Amsterdam, E-mail: r.d.vandermei@kpn.com
Frank Huebner-Szabo de Bucs, Concert Technologies, E-mail: frank.huebner@concert.com 

Program Committee
Chris Blondia, University of Antwerp; Tim Brown, University of
Colorado/Boulder; Joachim Charzinski, Siemens, Germany; Ken Christensen,
University of South Florida; Wai-Sum Lai, AT&T Labs; Steven Low, California
Institute of Technology; Michel Mandjes, Lucent Technologies/CWI; Paul Reeser,
AT&T Labs; Ramon Rodriguez-Dagnino ITESM, Mexico; Mark Squillante, IBM; Tim
Strayer, BBN Technologies; Hideaki Takagi, University of Tsukuba, Japan; Hans
van den Berg, KPN Research, Netherlands; Carey Williamson, University of
Calgary;

For more info, please visit http://spie.org/Conferences/calls/02/itcom/confs/IT201.html.