Call for Papers and Announcement

                Quality of Service over Next-Generation Internet (IT202)
    29 July- 2 August 2002 - Boston Marriott Copley Place - Boston,
                             Massachusetts USA
                  spie.org/Conferences/calls/02/itcom/confs/IT202.html

Conference Chairs: Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Univ. of Oklahoma;
                   Mahbub Hassan, Univ. of New South Wales (Australia)

Program Committee: 
Johnson Agbinya, Vodafone Network Pty Ltd. (Australia); Michael S. Borella,
3Com; Raouf Boutaba, Univ. of Waterloo (Canada); Hakki C. Cankaya, Alcatel
Corp.; Arjan Durresi, The Ohio State Univ.; Gabor Fodor, Ericsson Research
(Sweden); Nasir Ghani, Sorrento Networks; William A. Ivancic, NASA Glenn
Research Ctr.; Wai Sum Lai, AT&T Labs.; Pascal Lorenz, Univ. de Haute-Alsace
(France); Guojun Lu, Monash Univ. (Australia); Govindarasu Manimaran, Iowa
State Univ.; Amitabh Mishra, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ.;
Josi Neuman de Souza, Federal Univ. of Ceara (Brazil); Samar Sing, La Trobe
Univ. (Australia); Burkhard Stiller, ETH Zuerich (Switzerland); Liren Zhang,
Nanyang Technological Univ. (Singapore)

The best-effort service model of the current Internet does not provide Quality
of Service (QoS) guarantees to multimedia and other business-critical
transactions. The convergence of services through the Internet means that the
next generation data networks will have to support the negotiation and
assurance of QoS. In recognition of this need, several efforts have been
launched.

The Integrated Services (intserv) service model is based on reserving resources
for those connections or flows that need QoS assurance. To support this mode of
operation, the RSVP signaling protocol has been developed, although other
suitable protocols can be used as well. Recently, enhancements have been
proposed for RSVP to handle aggregated flows. Complementary to Intserv, the
Differentiated Services model classifies and marks all traffic into several
classes at network entry so that core routers can simply forward packets
according to the QoS requirements of different service classes. In another
direction, the Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) paradigm has been developed
to enable the efficient support of QoS and the offering of new QoS
capabilities. Currently, new mechanisms are under investigation to support QoS
over wireless access networks for mobile users.

This conference aims to bring together the work that has been carried out in
the area of Quality of Service over Next Generation Data Networks.Topics to be
covered in this conference include:

Integrated and Differentiated Services
QoS mapping from Integrated Services to Differentiated Services
Active Buffer Management techniques, ex. RED.
LAN QoS
Multiprotocol Label Switching
QoS guarantees in 3G wireless multimedia networks
QoS based routing
QoS management in multi-bearer IP networks including PSTN, ISDN, satellite,
  GSM, GPRS and CDMA networks
Impact of media compression in QoS networks
QoS over Mobile IP
QoS enabled MAC design
Internetworking QoS

Authors should submit an extended abstract (up to three double spaced pages)
through the SPIE web-site.
Abstract Due Date: 21 January 2002
Manuscript Due Date: 13 May 2002

Proceedings of this conference will be published and available at the meeting.
The Abstract and Manuscript due dates must be strictly observed.

Instructions for Submitting Abstracts:

All authors are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to submit their abstracts by the due date
using the "submit an abstract" link on the Web at: www.spie.org/info/itcom

Details about the conference can be found in
spie.org/Conferences/calls/02/itcom/ A pdf version of this CFP can be
downloaded from www.cs.ou.edu/~atiq/cfp-spie-qos02.pdf

Mohammed Atiquzzaman           Tel:   (405) 325 8077
School of Computer Science     Fax:   (928) 962 8422, 
University of Oklahoma                (405) 325 4044
200 Felgar St., Room EL-163    Email: atiq@ou.edu
Norman, OK 73019-6151                 atiq@ieee.org
www.cs.ou.edu/~atiq