Quality of Service in the Internet Minitrack at HICSS 2003

Call For Papers

Quality of Service in the Internet Minitrack

January 6-9, 2003
Hilton Waikoloa Village
Big Island, Hawaii

Minitrack Co-Chairs:

Ahmed E. Kamal
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng.
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
U.S.A.

Tel: (515) 294-3580
Fax: (515) 294-8432
E-mail:kamal@iastate.edu

Osama Aboul-Magd
Nortel Networks
P.O. Box 3511, Station C
Ottawa, ON K1Y - 4H7
CANADA

Tel: 613-763-5827
Fax: 613-763-2697
E-mail: osama@nortelnetworks.com

Overview

A large number of network applications, differing in requirements and traffic characteristics have been introduced in the past few years. As such, the Internet is now moving from being a best-effort service provider, to a provider of assured service qualities. This requires the development of new protocols, both inside subnetworks, and on end-to-end levels. Such protocols should deal with issues as service differentiation, pricing, congestion control, QoS routing, resource reservation, service provisioning, etc. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), as the main standard body for IP protocol has been working on those issues. A new and lightweight service paradigm, namely, the Differentiated Services (DiffServ) approach has been proposed by IETF and active research is underway to define architectures and strategies for QoS within the Internet. Several issues still need to be worked on, such as end-to-end service interworking, actual protocol mechanisms and implementation, classification and marking, the service level agreement and the service guarantees.

Scope

The minitrack will concentrate on complete or ongoing research in the area of Internet Quality of Service. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Traffic characterization
Differentiated services protocols and signaling
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) QoS
Layer 2 QoS, e.g., IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
Scheduling algorithms
End-to-end service interworking
Congestion control strategies in DiffServ networks
Active queue management
Resource reservation
Pricing
Performance evaluation

Important Deadlines:

A 300-word abstract by March 31

Feedback to author on abstract by April 19

Eight copies of the manuscript by June 1

Notification of accepted papers by August 31

Camera-ready copies of accepted manuscripts are due by October 1

Instructions for the Authors

Submit a 300-word abstract to either of the co-chairs ( kamal@iastate.edu or osama@nortelnetworks.com) by March 31, 2002. The preferred method of submission is e-mail, but submissions by regular mail, or fax will also be considered. Feedback on the appropriateness of the abstract will be sent to you by April 19, 2002. Submit the full manuscript by June 1, 2002. Manuscripts should have an abstract and be 22-25 typewritten, double-spaced pages in length. Papers must not have been previously presented or published, nor currently submitted for publication. Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed. Individuals interested in refereeing papers should contact the minitrack chairs directly. If you have more questions or want to find out more about HICSS36, please go to the Software Technology Track homepage, or contact either of the co-chairs.