CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL SESSION ON INTERWORKING OF DIFFSERV, RSVP AND
MPLS FOR ACHIEVING QOS IN THE INTERNET
Twelfth IASTED International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2000)
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
November 6-9, 2000

Scope:
The traffic on the Internet is increasingly changing from best-effort to time-sensitive. However, the Internet is not ready yet for supporting this changing traffic. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is developing new protocols and techniques for supporting Quality of Service (QoS) in private networks as well as the global Internet. Among the new protocols, RSVP provides quantitative guarantees to each flow whereas Diffserv provides qualitative assurances by using PHB (per hop behavior) for packets marked with DSCP (DS codepoints). MPLS has been developed to accelerate routing of traffic aggregates destined towards a common point by using Label Switched Paths (LSP) so that the intermediate routers do not have to make a routing decision. MPLS also leverages the cost of ATM switches by mapping LSP's to VPI/VCI for IP over ATM.

A special session on Interworking of these protocols will be organized at the PDCS 2000 conference. This session will serve as a forum to present the latest research and simulation results of works by international researchers, developers, and users. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Integrated operation of Intserv and Diffserv for edge-to-edge QoS flows
Aggregation of flows for scaling of RSVP
VoIP performance over Diffserv networks
Traffic Engineering Architecture for the Internet
Jitter characteristics in a Diffserv domain
Scheduling at nodes in a Diffserv domain
Mapping ATM CoS to Diffserv
Voice over MPLS
Performance of RSVP-MPLS architecture
FR/MPLS Network and service interworking
Inter-provider MPLS signaling and LSP routing
COPS Policy Server/Bandwidth Broker implementation issues

Paper Submission
Submission should include authors names, affiliations, addresses and email addresses, on the cover page. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Please submit full paper, not exceeding 6 pages in length (single-space) in PS or PDF format for consideration, to session organizer at zubairi@cs.fredonia.edu by August 14, 2000 via email. Include up to 5 keywords and an abstract of no more than 250 words. On a separate sheet, include paper's title, author(s) names and affiliation, postal address, email, fax, and phone numbers. Indicate address for correspondence.

Proceedings
All papers selected for this session by peer-review process will be published in the PDCS'2000 conference proceedings through IASTED Press, USA.

Session Organizer:
Dr. Junaid Ahmed Zubairi
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
College at Fredonia, State University of New York
Fredonia, NY 14063, USA
Tel: +1-716-673-4694
(During summer 2000,Tel: 00-603-2056-4552)
Fax: +1-508-256-8324
Email: zubairi@cs.fredonia.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.fredonia.edu/~zubairi

If you have questions concerning session paper submission or session content, please contact the special session organizer at the address above.

If you have questions concerning conference paper submissions or program, please contact Conference Program Co-Chairs: Dr. M. Guizani, University of West Florida, USA, mguizani@cs.uwf.edu or X. Shen, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA, xshen@cstp.umkc.edu. For further information, see conference web site at
http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2000/lasvegas/pdcs.htm.

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