CALL FOR PAPERS
             IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 

            INTERNET AND WWW MEASUREMENT, MAPPING, AND MODELING

   The Internet is capturing a central role in the social and economic
   fabrics of the global structure. While it is growing at a remarkable
   rate, there is no means by which users or network planners can track
   this growth. Mapping the network, namely, taking a snapshot of its
   current status, can help applications to better utilize the network.
   Analyzing maps taken over long periods of time can help in
   understanding how the Internet evolves. Understanding the Internet
   structure and evolution can help in designing and constructing better
   applications, and in the deployment of new network level services.

   The goal of this issue is to examine the Internet structure and the
   structure of its most profligate application, the WWW, and to examine
   tools, methods, and instrumentations designed to map and understand
   the Internet structure. In particular, we are interested in original
   research contributions addressing the following issues:

     * Internet and WWW structure modeling:
          + empirical studies,
          + mathematical models,
          + topology generators.
     * Tools for mapping and measuring the Internet and the WWW:
          + discovery techniques,
          + measurement techniques,
          + measurement infrastructure,
          + visualization.
     * Effect of mapping and measurement on application performance:
          + application level routing,
          + network-adaptive applications,
          + group communication,
          + virtual topology construction.

   Only original and unpublished research papers will be considered.
   Authors should follow the IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in
   the Information for Authors.

   There will be one round of reviews and acceptance will be limited to
   papers needing only moderate revisions. Prospective authors should
   submit a PDF or PostScript version of their complete manuscript (which
   should be compressed if the size exceeds 1 MBgyte) to Yuval Shavitt
   according to the following timetable:

   Manuscript Submission:   AUGUST 18, 2002
   Acceptance Notification: December 22, 2002
   Final Manuscript Due:    February 22, 2003
   Publication Date:        3rd Quarter 2003

   Sugih Jamin
   University of Michigan
   1301 Beal Ave
   Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122, USA
   jamin@eecs.umich.edu Danny Raz
   Technion - I.I.T.
   Faculty of Computer Science
   Technion City, Haifa, Israel 29000
   danny@cs.technion.ac.il

   Yuval Shavitt
   Tel Aviv University
   Dept of Electrical Engineering
   Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
   shavitt@eng.tau.ac.il Don Towsley
   University of Massachusetts
   Dept of Computer Science
   Amherst, MA 01003-4610, USA
   towsley@cs.umass.edu