Please note the deadline has been extended until June 10, 2003.
This is a final deadline.
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End-to-End Quality of Service Differentiation

Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Communications 

http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/2/5/4/4/0/

Guest Editors
Hossam Hassanein (Queen's University, Canada); Hanan Lutfiyya (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

Publication: WINTER 2003
Differentiated Services (DiffServ) is a proposed architecture from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) 
in which various applications are supported using a simple classification scheme. Packets entering the DiffServ 
domain are marked depending on the Packets' class. However, for many QoS-sensitive applications such as 
e-commerce and steaming media, QoS differentiation at the network-level only may not be sufficient to guarantee 
QoS requirements. Such applications require end-to-end QoS differentiation. End-to-end QoS guarantees require 
service differentiation at the network, middleware, operating system and application levels.

This issue of Computer Communications is interested in visionary, experimental, systems- and performance-related 
papers in the area of QoS differentiation at the network, middleware, operating system and application levels. 
Papers should describe original and previously unpublished, and not currently under review by another conference, 
workshop or journal. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·	Differentiated Services Architectures					
·	QoS-aware operating systems
·	Next Generation Internet							
·	Policy-based QoS differentiation
·	Packet classification and marking						
·	Application-level service differentiation
·	Packet Scheduling								
·	Middleware for QoS server design
·	Differentiated buffer management						
·	Multimedia distributed databases
·	Content-aware switches							
·	QoS portability
·	Active network support for QoS differentiation				
·	QoS aware Web architectures
·	Multi-level admission control							
·	Differentiated Web caching
·	QoS differentiation for e-commerce and m-commerce			
·	Internet Privacy and Security

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions: June 1 2003
Notification of acceptance: September 1 2003
Publication: Winter 2003

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Guidelines on how to present your paper are given at http://www.elsevier.nl/inca/publications/store/5/2/5/4/4/0/. 
Authors are invited to submit full original papers in electronic form (PDF or postscript) to:
 
Hossam Hassanein						
Queen's University	
Canada								
Email: hossam@cs.queensu.ca
							
Hanan Lutfiyya
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Email: hanan@csd.uwo.ca