Dear colleagues,
 
due to multiple requests, the full paper submission deadline was extended to 
Friday, April 26th. Late papers can still be submitted at:
 
http://vitus.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de:8080/submit.html.
 
 
For more information about the 15th ITC Specialist Seminar, please visit our 
homepage at
 
http://www.itcspecialistseminar.com
 
 
Best Regards
Phuoc Tran-Gia (Seminar Co-Chair)
Jim Roberts    (Seminar Co-Chair)
Kurt Tutschku  (Organizing Committee Chair)


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Call for Papers: 15th ITC Specialist Seminar "Internet Traffic
Engineering and Traffic Management"
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Dear colleagues,

we'd like to announce proudly an upcoming ITC Specialist Seminar

15th ITC Specialist Seminar: Internet Traffic Engineering and Traffic
Management, July 22-24 2002, Wuerzburg, Germany.

The Technical Program Committee of the seminar is chaired by Prof. James
Roberts and Prof. Phuoc Tran-Gia

We'd like to invite you to submit original full papers until April 22,
2002. You will find a detailed Call for Papers at:

http://itc.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/
http://www.itcspecialistseminar.com/

Best Regards
Phuoc Tran-Gia (Seminar Co-Chair)
Jim Roberts (Seminar Co-Chair)
Kurt Tutschku (Organizing Committee Chair)

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                        15th ITC Specialist Seminar


            Internet Traffic Engineering and Traffic Management

                    July 21.-24. 2002, Würzburg, Germany

                   http://itc.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
                    http://www.ITCSpecialistSeminar.com

   Department of Distributed Systems
   University of Wuerzburg, Germany. 


   Purpose and Scope: 
   The success of future IP-based communication networks is heavily
   dependent on their ability to economically and reliably offer a range
   of quality services. Essential requirements are traffic management
   mechanisms capable of providing necessary Quality of Service (QoS)
   guarantees and traffic engineering procedures which ensure that these
   mechanisms are used in a costeffective way.
   While it is increasingly recognized that traffic management and
   traffic engineering are complementary and mutually dependent
   functions, it is also clear that there remains a significant gap in
   our understanding of the best way to use them. For instance, while
   various queue management schemes provide service differentiation, it
   largely remains to specify how they can be configured and resources
   adequately provisioned to meet quantitative quality objectives.
   Complex service level agreements are being defined with little regard
   to the facility with which they can be honoured. IP traffic
   engineering still relies on routing algorithms which are, to say the
   least, quite primitive with respect to their ability to place traffic
   where capacity is available.
   The objective of the seminar is to address these issues at the
   intersection of traffic management and traffic engineering. It will
   provide a workshop setting for an exchange of ideas and results
   between researchers and practitioners in this area. The scope of the
   seminar includes the following areas.

   Traffic measurement: Techniques and tools, traffic trends and
   patterns, definition of performance metrics, load and performance
   monitoring 
   Traffic and performance modelling:     Characterization at packet,
   flow and application levels, self- similarity and multifractal
   behaviour, effects of short-range versus long-range dependence, model
   validation and experiments 
   Traffic management and QoS models: Traffic classification and service
   differentiation, QoS routing, admission control, management
   architectures, pricing 
   Performance test beds and testing methodology: Experimental test beds
   and results, results from operational networks 
   Network design methodology: Traffic matrix inference, dimensioning
   procedures, network optimisation 
   Application to specific network technologies Next Generation IP
   Networks, DiffServ/IntServ, (G)MPLS, IP over Optical, IP over 3G
   Wireless, Seamless ALL-IP Wireless Networks, Mobile/Cellular IP 
   Application to networked services Web Services, Content Delivery in IP
   networks, Peer-to-Peer Services, Network Storage Services, Streaming
   Services, New IP-based Services 



   Schedule:
   Full Paper Submission Deadline:            April 22, 2002.
   Notification of Full Paper Acceptance:     May 24, 2002 .
   Final Version of Paper Due:                June 22, 2002.
   Seminar:                                   July 22-24, 2002.


   Technical Paper Committee (to be completed) 

   Phuoc Tran-Gia University of Würzburg, Germany. (Chair)
   James Roberts France Telecom, France. (Co-chair)
   Onno Boxma Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
   Joachim Charzinski Siemens AG, Germany.
   Jon Crowcroft University of Cambridge, UK.
   Christophe Diot Sprint Advanced Technology Labs, USA.
   Anja Feldmann University of Saarbruecken, Germany.
   Serge Fdida Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France.
   Markus Fiedler Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.
   Richard Harris Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.
   Gunnar Karlsson Royal Insititute of Technology, Sweden.
   Nikhil Jain Qualcomm Inc., USA.
   Konosuke Kawashima    NTT Advanced Technology Corp., Japan.
   Peter Key Microsoft Research, UK.
   Edward Knightly Rice University, USA.
   Udo Krieger T-Nova, Deutsche Telekom, Germany.
   Guy Latouche Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
   Ralf Lehnert Technical University Dresden, Germany.
   Debasis Mitra Bell Labs Research, USA.
   Sandor Molnar Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
   Hungary.
   Ilkka Norros VTT Information Technology, Finland.
   Michal Pioro Warsaw University of Technology / Lund University, Poland
   / Sweden.
   Alexandre Proutiere France Telecom, France.
   Jennifer Rexford AT&T Research, USA.
   Hideaki Takagi University of Tsukuba, Japan.
   Don Townsley University of Massachusetts, USA.
   Darryl Veitch Melbounre University, Australia.
   Jorma Virtamo Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
   Patricia Wirth AT&T Research, USA.

   Local Organizing Committee:
   Kurt Tutschku (Chair),
   Michael Menth,
   Klaus Heck, University of Wuerzburg, Germany.

   IAC Liaison: 
   Paul Kuehn (ITC IAC Chairman)



   Author Instructions: 
   Authors are encouraged to submit a full paper up to 10 pages.
   The papers will be reviewed by the programme committee for relevance,
   clarity and the novelty of results. Accepted papers will be published
   in the workshop proceedings.
   Electronic manuscripts are required to be in PDF or PostScript format.
   The Final length of full papers will be limited to 10 pages (minimum
   of 10pt font, and printable on A4 paper). All papers should include
   the complete postal and electronic mailing addresses, as well as the
   phone and fax numbers of the corresponding author. The papers are
   expected to have an abstract with a clear contribution statement.

   Style Guides
   Authors should typeset their papers according to the following
   guidelines:
   View a Postscript Example or the same page as PDF. If you use LaTeX,
   you can download the LaTeX Style Files in zip format.