-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Final call for papers to QoFIS 2003 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:52:24 +0200 From: Gunnar Karlsson gunnar.karlsson@it.kth.se Reply-To: gk@imit.kth.se To: Cost263@Fokus. Gmd. De cost263@fokus.gmd.de
N.b. The submission deadline for QoFIS 2003 is Tuesday April 22. ----------------------
Call for Papers Fourth COST 263 International Workshop on Quality of Future Internet Services (QoFIS 2003)
October 1-3, 2003 KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden URL: http://www.qofis.org
Call for Papers
The purpose of the workshop is to present and discuss design and implementation techniques for providing quality of service in communication systems. This workshop is the fourth international event organized by COST263 Action "Quality of Future Internet Services" and it explicitly focuses on the provisioning of quality of service in the Internet, including wireless network access and host system support. The workshop will serve as a forum for the presentation and discussion of new and maturing approaches to QoS, and for bringing together researchers, developers and practitioners from both industry and academia.
Along with presentations of papers and keynote speeches, QoFIS 2003 will offer a seminar day on October 3 with invited speakers on the topic "Quality of Service in Wireless Networks." The seminar is organized in cooperation with the KTH Center for Wireless Systems.
List of Topics
We are inviting research contributions on topics strongly related to the offering of quality of service in the Internet. These include, but are not limited to:
- Traffic modeling and classification - QoS requirements, mapping and negotiation - Denial and theft of QoS - Policing, scheduling and metering - QoS routing, inter and intra domain - Signaling, session management - Traffic engineering, service dimensioning - End-system QoS support - Policy-based QoS management - QoS in wireless networks - QoS in peer-to-peer networks - Active networking for QoS - Charging for quality
Papers and Submissions
Papers are solicited in full length in English. All papers will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should follow the author guidelines specified at http://www.qofis.org. The conference proceedings are published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. They will be available during the event.
Best Ph.D. student paper award
Papers that are candidate for the best PhD student paper award should be clearly identified as such in a cover letter, which should be signed by the student's supervisor. To be eligible for the award, the PhD student should be the principal author and presenter of the submitted paper. The selection will be based on both the quality of the written paper and its presentation.
Important Dates
Deadline for submissions: April 22, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 9, 2003 Camera-ready version: July 17, 2003 Workshop dates: October 1-3, 2003
General Information
The final program will be offered in a single-track over two days, Wednesday and Thursday October 1 and 2, 2003. An associated seminar on Quality of Service in Wireless Networks will be held on Friday October 3, 2003, at the KTH Center for Wireless Systems, http://wireless.kth.se/. The registration fee will include both the workshop and the seminar day. For more information on the co-located events please visit the URL http://www.qofis.org/.
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