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CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
QUALITY OF SERVICE IN VARIABLE TOPOLOGY NETWORKS
About 25 years ago the first routing protocols that have become known
as Variable Topology Routing Protocols that were not simply random
routing or flooding appeared. Their objective is to maintain and
continue the delivery of message traffic in a network where the
topology of the network (the router connections) is variable. In
recent years this has become an area of great interest with sessions
at ICC, Infocom, Globecom, and Milcom, as well as papers in both IEEE
and ACM Journals. There is also an Internet Engineering Task Force
group studying a subset called Ad Hoc routing, which is based upon a
common broadcast channel, an outgrowth of packet radio, and an active
worldwide researcher mail-list. There are literally tens of new
protocols proposed every quarter. There are, however, limited numbers
of papers describing performance of such protocols and fewer still
describing comparative performance with meaningful statistical
analysis of operation (steady-state and learning modes). As such a
reader/user/organization wishing to employ such a protocol has little
to go on in making a selection choice. Furthermore, many methods seek
only to deliver traffic but do not consider timeliness, priorities,
and other features that users might desire.
Likewise quality of service is also a subject of great interest in
conferences and journals as users want predictable performance. Here
again there are many ideas and little to go on in terms of
performance, methods of evaluation, or standards, which would allow a
user to select an approach that maximizes his capacity or performance
or gives guarantees of delivery performance.
It is the objective of this issue to publish papers presenting
methodology, performance, comparative performance, and methods for
providing/increasing user capacity and performance in variable
topology networks, and quality of service alternatives, which will
allow potential users to gain the necessary information to make real
world implementation comparisons and choices. This performance can be
shown by analysis, simulation or implementation with preference being
given to papers providing comparisons of alternatives. Our goal is
that there be one source for current information to aid users in the
decision making process. New methodologies will be considered if they
are in papers that also compare their performance to other well-known
approaches and demonstrate improved value. Papers that show other
methods including architectural, reconfigurable, and topological
approaches and MAC features to increase user capacity and performance
are also desired. But again, these papers must show comparative
advances in performance.
Call for Papers
Topics of keen interest today in networking technology include methods
of delivering services over variable topology networks, such as
variable point-to-point and Ad Hoc networks, in which the user is
mobile and inter-router connections are time varying. We seek here to
gather a body of work that reports the state of the art and practice
in assessment of the quality of service (QoS) that can be delivered
over such networks. We specifically seek contributions that will be of
value to system architects in selecting collections of technologies
and methodologies that meet their needs and establish standards for
user responsive system performance.
We are especially seeking contributions that report QoS delivery in
clearly defined network settings under clearly defined metrics for a
specific service or collection of services. Such contributions might
focus specifically on comparing alternative technological or
methodological approaches to delivering services with quality
guarantee, such as bi-directional versus unidirectional connectivity,
source-based versus dynamic routing, proactive versus reactive
organization, transmission control at the transport layer versus the
MAC layer, retransmission versus forward error correction and the
relation of these to timeliness and priority. Variable topology
peer-to-peer and Ad Hoc constructions in both flat and hierarchical
environments are of interest.
Alternatively, a contribution might focus on the performance that can
be achieved using a single technological and methodological approach,
but varying key factors of interest, such as the number of end
systems, end-system density, or the delivery physical environment.
Throughout, the central theme should be service delivery, and the
metrics used should enable potential users to clearly see patterns of
performance in one or more of the following dimensions: cost,
complexity, timely delivery, traffic handling capacity, or the number
of end systems the system can handle. Methods for achieving quality of
service under conditions of varying topology, and new concepts for
providing quality of service are likewise of interest.
In this context, the topics for this issue include:
Subjects of Interest
* Variable Point-to-Point and Ad Hoc Routing
o New methodologies
o Bi-directional vs. unidirectional connectivity
o Source based vs. dynamic routing
o Unicast vs. multicast, content-based routing
* Variable Topology Network Architectures and Reconfiguration
Techniques
o Flat vs. hierarchical organizations
o Proactive vs. reactive reconfiguration
o MAC vs. upper layer implementations
o Self-configurations
o Distributed algorithms (group and resource management)
* Quality of Service (QoS) Delivery
o Methodologies for timely message delivery
o Providing predictable performance
o Error coding for achieving Quality of Service
o Methods of measuring QoS in operational networks
* Performance Analysis
o Comparative study (analysis, simulation, emulation and/or
implementation)
o New analytical approaches
o Definition of performance metrics
o Optimizing the system performance (capacity, response time,
throughput, etc.)
* Testbed and Applications
o Testbed descriptions and objectives
o Experimental results based on testbeds
o Unique applications of testbeds
* Standards
o Definition of common and desirable features of standards
o Matching current and emerging standards to applications
o Applications requirements versus features provided by standards
Original, unpublished contributions and invited articles will be
considered for the issue. The call for papers is for extended
abstracts that propose development of papers to meet the goals of the
issue. The proposal shall comprehensively describe the area of the
paper relative to the areas of interest of the call. These extended
abstracts will be reviewed and the editors will invite final papers,
which will be refereed. Extended abstracts not to exceed 5 pages in
.pdf format should be submitted by April 1, 2003. To submit your
extended abstract 1) go to http://edas.cs.columbia.edu, 2) establish
an account, 3) receive an e-mail from edas with your password, 4)
login to the edas system, 5) select the J-SAC issue, 6) click on view,
7) click on submit paper and follow the instructions. Upon invitation
papers should be submitted in .pdf format. Papers should follow the
IEEE J-SAC manuscript format described in the Information for Authors,
and be no longer than 25 double-spaced pages, excluding illustrations
and graphs.
The name of the submitted file should be aaaaJsacVtn.pdf, where aaaa
is the first four letters of the author's surname. If an author
submits more than one paper then aaaa shall be replaced by aaaan where
n is a sequential paper number (e.g. 1, 2, ...). All submissions must
be electronically generated. Scanned documents are not acceptable.
All papers will be peer reviewed and revisions of acceptable papers
may be required prior to publication.
The following timetable will apply:
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: April 1, 2003
Acceptance Notification of Proposed Paper: June 1, 2003
Submission of Invited Papers: October 1, 2003
Acceptance Notification: February 1, 2004
Final Revised Manuscript Due: March 1, 2004
Publication of Issue: 3rd-4th Quarter 2004
Guest Editors:
Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, University of Perugia, Italy,
blefari@diei.unipg.it
Kenneth Brayer, The MITRE Corporation, USA, k.brayer@ieee.org
John N. Daigle, The University of Mississippi, USA,
wcdaigle@cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu
Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
Switzerland, jean-yves.leboudec@epfl.ch
Bo Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China,
BLI@cs.ust.hk
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