CALL FOR PAPERS
JOURNAL OF NETWORK AND SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT
http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/jnsm/
Special Issue on IP Operations and Management
IP-based networking is growing at a phenomenal rate. While IP
networks are currently carrying mostly best-effort traffic, there
are activities under way to support quality of service (QoS)
which will turn the global Internet into a ubiquitous all-service
network. Providing services of guaranteed quality though requires
careful planning, operations and management. For example, service
level agreements will have to be mapped to appropriate traffic
management mechanisms and QoS policy parameters at various
levels. Planning and provisioning will need to take place
together with dynamic control and reconfiguration through
feedback from monitoring mechanisms. With the convergence of
data networks with the PSTN and CATV networks, management issues
related to this integration will have to be dealt with. With
more sophisticated services being provided, accounting and
billing based on state-of-the-art usage metering will become
necessary. Managing the security of IP networks and of the
operations and management framework itself poses an interesting
challenge. Novel management information modeling, storage and
access using the directory, XML, etc., present interesting
research and systems engineering challenges. This special issue
is intended to present related management problems and their
solutions. The focus will be on the following topics:
* IP Traffic Modeling and Management
* Intra and inter-domain Bandwidth Brokerage
* Policy-driven IP Networks
* Management of Dynamic Service Level Agreements
* Dynamic Network Control for Guaranteed QoS
* QoS Routing Management
* Directory, Web and XML-based IP Management
* Management of Voice Over IP
* Management of Mobile IP
* Management of IP Over ATM and IP Switching
* Management of IP Over SONET/SDH, WDM and CATV
* Deployment Issues for New IP Services
* Charging and Accounting for IP Services
* IP Security Management
Instructions to Contributors:
We invite prospective authors to submit high quality papers via
email to one of the guest editors, depending on their geographic
zone. Only electronic submissions are acceptable. Please prepare
the manuscripts according to the Instructions to Contributors
which can be found in any copy of the Journal, or by visiting the
JNSM Web site.
Guest Editors:
Prof. George Pavlou Dr. Masum Hasan
(Contact for non-US submissions) (Contact for US submissions)
Center for Communication Systems Research Cisco Systems
Dept. of Electronic Engineering, 170 West Tasman Drive
Univ. of Surrey, Guilford, Surrey GU2 5XH San Jose, CA 95134-1706
UK USA
Email: G.Pavlou@ee.surrey.ac.uk Email: masum@cisco.com
Schedule:
Manuscript due: September 30, 2000
Notification of acceptance: December 31, 2000
Final manuscript due: March 31, 2001
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