Workshop Scope:

In recent years, there has been a tremendous push from business and user communities for next generation applications demanding Quality of Service (QoS), reliability, and security. Although the bandwidth of the Internet is continually increasing, the backbone of the Internet itself is still far from being able to support QoS without appropriate resource provisioning mechanisms. In addition, as the available bandwidth to end users increases, new applications are continually being developed which erode gains in network capacity. Thus, for the foreseeable future, some form of resource provisioning is necessary to provide QoS across the Internet. Several efforts are currently underway to empower the Internet with scalable QoS capabilities that can be incrementally deployable. Differentiated Services (DiffServ) and MPLS are among the promising and complementary technologies that are actively being pursued to realize this goal. It is expected that some form of MPLS assisted DiffServ implementation is more likely across the Internet in the near future.

Securing the Internet, like any other fields of computers, is based on the principle of confidentiality and integrity. The presence of packet sniffers, malicious routers, covert channels, eavesdroppers, Denial-of-Service (DoS) in the Internet makes this extremely important problem very challenging. Most of the research on Internet security have so far dealt with the information assurance aspects, which is primarily about protecting the data using techniques such as authentication and encryption. However, information assurance assumes that the devices (nodes) responsible for encrypting, forwarding and sending are trustworthy. Researchers are now questioning these assumptions, as instances have taken place where the network infrastructure (e.g., routers, servers) are compromised to the advantage of the malicious adversaries, especially this has become even more serious due to the growing concerns for cyber terrorism. Therefore, Internet infrastructure security is a pressing issue which needs significant research attention.

The term Trusted Internet refers to the next generation Internet that is capable of providing QoS, reliability, and security guarantees to Internet applications and users. The successful realization of Trusted Internet will not only meet individual user/application requirements, but will lead to successful deployment of Virtual Private Network (VPN) within the public Internet infrastructure satisfying complex needs of corporate and government applications.

The goal of Trusted Internet workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their work and exchange ideas in the areas of Internet QoS, Internet Reliability, and Internet Security. To achieve this goal, this workshop solicits original, previously unpublished research contributions on (but not restricted to) the following subject categories of Trusted Internet:

Paper Submission:

Interested authors should submit an electronic version of the manuscript either in Postscript, PDF, or MS-Word format as an email attachment to one of the workshop co-chairs. All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. Electronic versions of the accepted papers will be published at the workshop website.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission Deadline : October 1, 2002
Feedback to Authors : November 1, 2002
Final Manuscripts due : November 30, 2002