Tarek Abdelzaher: CFP on QoS-Sensitive Network Applications and Systems

[Frans Kaashoek]

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Date:    Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:55:37 -0500
From:    Tarek Abdelzaher <zaher at cs.virginia.edu>
To:      zaher at cs.virginia.edu
Subject: CFP on QoS-Sensitive Network Applications and Systems

			     CALL FOR PAPERS
	   Special Issue of the Computer Communications Journal
			  	   on
	     QoS-Sensitive Network Applications and Systems

 	        (Extended) Hard Deadline: MARCH 15th, 2000
				
Guest Editors: 
						
Klara Nahrstedt				     Tarek Abdelzaher
Department of Computer Science		     Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   University of Virginia
Urbana-Champaign, IL, 61801 		     Charlottesville, VA 22903
U.S.A.					     U.S.A.
Phone: +1 (217) 244-6624		     Phone: +1 (804) 982-2227
Fax:   +1 (217) 333-3501		     Fax:   +1 (804) 982-2214 
Email: klara at cs.uiuc.edu 		     Email: zaher at cs.virginia.edu

SCOPE:
The role of the Internet has undergone a dramatic change from an 
unreliable communication medium to a critical infrastructure for 
a myriad of distributed applications and services with various 
requirements for reliability, security and QoS guarantees. This 
requires fundamental rethinking of the traditional best-effort 
philosophy that pervades the present service and communication
architecture. Next generation distributed network systems and
applications would have to offer different levels of service to
different users, give contractual performance assurances on critical
services, adapt to unexpected load conditions and resource
limitations, support client heterogeneity and mobility, deal 
gracefully with congestion and overload situations, and monitor 
distributed resource consumption for accounting and QoS control 
purposes. This special issue seeks papers describing significant 
research contributions in the field of QoS-sensitive architectures
for such network applications and services. Authors are invited to 
submit full papers concerned with both theory and practice. Areas 
of interest include, but are not limited to:

	- QoS in distributed computing
	- Architectures for web QoS
	- QoS-sensitive advanced multimedia applications
	- E-commerce QoS
	- QoS in distributed collaborative systems
	- QoS-enabled middleware
	- Impact of QoS on network caching strategies
	- Adaptive QoS architectures
	- Differentiated services and QoS
	- QoS and pricing
	- Security as a QoS dimension  
	- OS support for QoS-sensitive communication

IMPORTANT DATES:
	Paper Submission Deadline: 		March 15, 2000   
	Feedback to Authors: 			May 15, 2000   
	Final Manuscripts to Publisher: 	June 15, 2000   
	Publication of Special Issue: 		Late Fall 2000

AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Submissions made to the special issue should not have appeared in, or 
been submitted to other archival publications. All papers will be 
subjected to the journal's usual refereeing process. The guest editors 
request potential authors to send an email to Klara Nahrstedt
(klara at cs.uiuc.edu) or Tarek Abdelzaher (zaher at cs.virginia.edu), with the
submission as attachment in postscipt or PDF format, or giving a URL
where a postscript or PDF version of their submission can be downloaded. 
Important: Please include the words "SICC Submission" in the subject line.





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