CALL FOR PAPERS
INVITED SESSION ON BANDWIDTH AND SERVICE QUALITY
MANAGEMENT IN THE INTERNET

5^th World Multi-Conference on
Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2001)

Orlando, Florida, USA

July 22-25, 2001

Scope
Internet is undergoing a major transformation from being a best effort network to a well organized and well managed system with built-in intelligent protocols to provide predictable performance. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has developed and incorporated a number of new protocols and techniques for managing and allocating network bandwidth and supporting service quality. For bandwidth allocation and management, COPS (Common Open Policy Service) clients and servers work to convey policy decisions and allocate and recover bandwidth across a domain. For QoS, RSVP provides quantitative guarantees by reserved paths and Diffserv provides qualitative assurances by using PHB (per hop behavior) and PDB (per domain behavior) for packets marked with DSCP (DS codepoints). MPLS installs LSP's (Label Switched Path) that satisfy Traffic Engineering requirements. As LSP's are set up and released, the available bandwidth metrics for various links are updated to reflect the current state of the network.

An invited session on managing bandwidth and service quality through these new protocols and techniques is being organized at the SCI'2001 conference. This session will serve as a forum to present and discuss the latest research and simulation results of works by researchers and developers across the world. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Bandwidth management with COPS and MPLS
Effects of shaping and packet coloring on multimedia streams
Integrated operation of Intserv and Diffserv
Aggregation of flows for scaling of RSVP
VoIP performance over Diffserv networks
Traffic Engineering architecture for the Internet
Impact of congestion resolution schemes on QoS traffic
Voice over MPLS
Performance of RSVP-MPLS architecture
FR/MPLS Network and service interworking
Inter-provider MPLS signaling and LSP routing
Inter-domain tunneling rules
COPS Policy Server/Bandwidth Broker implementation issues

Paper Submission
Extended abstracts or paper drafts should be sent as per the following format:
1. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words or paper drafts of 2000 to 2500 words, in English.
2. Names, addresses, telephone numbers, fax numbers and e-mail addresses of all authors, with the name of the contact author underlined.

The abstracts or papers can be submitted in ps or pdf format to session organizer at zubairi@cs.fredonia.edu by March 12th, 2001 via email.

Proceedings
Accepted papers, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic proceedings. Best papers will be selected for awards and recommended for journal publications.
Multiple author books will be published by IIIS, based on the best-invited sessions, the best focus symposia or the best mini-conferences

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
Fax: +1-508-256-8324
Email: zubairi@cs.fredonia.edu
WWW: http://www.cs.fredonia.edu/~zubairi

Session Co-organizer:
Wajdi Al-Khateeb
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Kulliyyah of Engineering, Intl' Islamic University Malaysia
Jalan Gombak, Kuala Lumpur 53100, Malaysia
Tel: +603-2056-4574
Fax: +603-2056-4853
Email: wajdi@iiu.edu.my

If you have questions concerning session paper submission or session content, please contact the invited session organizers at the addresses above.

If you have questions concerning conference paper submissions or program, please contact Conference General Chair Prof. Nagib Callaos by email at ncallaos@usb.ve (Academic) or ncallaos@aol.com (Personal). For further information, see conference web site at
http://www.iiis.org/sci