Call For Papers
IEEE Communications Magazine
Feature Topic on "Internet Quality of Service Routing"
URL: http://www.cs.bu.edu/faculty/matta/cfp/qosr.html
Guest Editors:
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Marwan M. Krunz Ibrahim Matta
Dept. Electrical & Computer Eng. Computer Science Dept.
University of Arizona Boston University
Tucson, AZ 85721 Boston, MA 02215
Email: krunz@ece.arizona.edu Email: matta@cs.bu.edu
Phone: (520) 621-8731 Phone: (617) 358-1062
Fax: (520) 621-3862 Fax: (617) 353-6457
Scope:
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QoS routing represents a radical shift from the traditional
connectivity-based approach of currently deployed intra-domain (e.g.,
OSPF) and inter-domain (e.g., BGP) routing protocols. It calls for
QoS-sensitive scalable solutions for path selection, state
dissemination, multicasting, and topology aggregation. Emerging
Internet services such as Differentiated Services (Diffserv) and
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) are likely to both require and
justify the need for QoS-based routing solutions. This is reflected in
a number of recent standardization activities that acknowledge the
importance of QoS routing and that call for efficient, scalable
solutions to it. Nonetheless, it has been recently recognized that
existing QoS routing solutions have been developed "at some distance
from the task of development of QoS architectures." In particular,
current QoS architectural models, including Diffserv, seem to
implicitly assume that various classes of traffic are forwarded along
the same (best-effort) path, with service differentiation being
achieved locally through appropriate packet scheduling at each router.
Decoupling routing and QoS provisioning can lead to "inefficient"
selection of routes, reducing the likelihood of meeting the
applications' end-to-end QoS requirements.
In recent years, extensive research has been published on QoS routing
mechanisms, often in the context of traffic engineering. Several
issues have been adequately addressed, while others remain to be
tackled. The purpose of this Feature Topic is to summarize the
state-of-the-art in QoS routing research. We solicit tutorial research
articles and surveys that report on experimental and theoretical
studies related to QoS routing. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to, the following:
- Constraint-based path selection algorithms.
- Scalable state dissemination.
- Stateless QoS routing frameworks.
- Topology aggregation for hierarchical, QoS-based routing.
- QoS routing for traffic engineering.
- Fault-tolerant routing.
- Tradeoff between scalability and performance in QoS routing.
- QoS routing in optical networks.
- Multicast routing.
- Impact of Internet topologies on QoS routing.
- Localized QoS routing solutions.
- QoS routing in mobile and ad-hoc networks.
- Tools for evaluating QoS routing mechanisms.
Submission Instructions:
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Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts by email as an
attachment to one of the guest editors. Acceptable formats are limited
to Postscript and PDF. Paper submission should adhere to the
submission guidelines of the IEEE Communications Magazine. In
particular, submitted articles should be tutorial in nature and should
be written in a style comprehensible to readers outside the specialty
of the article. Articles may be edited for content, and will be copy
edited for compliance with the magazine's style guidelines. Page
proofs will be sent to the contact author for final review prior to
publication. Details of the submission guidelines can be found at
http://www.comsoc.org/~ci (under Submissions).
Submissions should indicate the name and contact information (address,
phone, fax, email) of the corresponding author.
Tentative Schedule:
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Submission Deadline: June 30, 2001
Acceptance Notification: October 15, 2001
Final Manuscripts Due: November 30, 2001
Publication Date: March 2002
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