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Special Issue on Inter-Domain Routing and QoS over Heterogeneous Networks http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP-Annale...

Important Dates Manuscripts Submission: January 31st, 2008. Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2008. Final Revised Manuscripts Due: June 1st, 2008. Expected Publication: Fall 2008.

Call for Papers

Today, the Internet is the most important communication infrastructure of our society. It enables users across the world to access and exchange information. Intra-domain routing protocols, such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS), that work within an Autonomous System (AS) or domain have been studied extensively by the scientific community. The other class of routing protocols, such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR), or Inter-Domain Routing Protocol (IDRP), which recently received a lot of attention, is inter-domain routing, where traffic needs to be routed among distinct AS. Many types of intra-domain routing algorithms have been proposed, including those based on shortest-path, centralized, distributed, flow-based, state-dependent, etc., to solve the challenge of optimal use of network resources. This challenge is further exacerbated by emerging QoS requirements of end-to-end applications (such as VoIP, Video conferencing, etc) for highly heterogeneous environments consisting of distinct AS. Due to the increasing number of AS, and the large number of connections per AS to the network, inter-domain routing solutions, based largely on routing protocol such as the BGP, suffer from several limitations when applied to deploy global QoS routing protocols. Such solutions often show serious insufficiencies in a highly heterogeneous Internet infrastructure consisting of different wired or wireless AS. The QoS routing over different types of AS should handle both, the different QoS provisioning mechanisms as well as the required service specifications. However, cooperation among AS is generally based on independent management relationships amongst organizations and are often expressed as a simple policy-based routing with different understandings of QoS. This requires that inter and intra routing schemes have to be coordinated to guarantee QoS requirements with respect to service level agreement, which is a highly limiting factor on the scalability of future solutions.

This special issue focuses on QoS routing, control policies, traffic engineering and explore their effectiveness when deployed over heterogeneous AS (for more details, see Scope of Contributions Section). We hope that the state-of-the-art results presented in this issue will provide further insight into novel QoS approaches that support mobility, scalability, connectivity and safety over the heterogeneous Internet infrastructure composed of multiple different AS.

For this Special issue, we seek original research or survey articles that explore novel approaches, algorithms, architectures, designs, and implementations to address research issues and challenges in the area of inter-domain QoS routing.

Scope of Contributions

Authors are encouraged to submit papers addressing all aspects of inter-domain Quality of Service (QoS) routing approaches and related topics with concrete experimental studies to show the validity of their approach using different types of Autonomous Systems (AS). Papers submitted for consideration should describe original research not published or currently under review by other journals and conferences. Parallel submissions will not be accepted. We solicit papers covering the following topics but not limited to: · Hierarchical QoS Routing · Inter-AS QoS Adaptation and Measurements, Inter-AS QoS Analysis and Modeling · Policy-Based Management in inter-AS QoS Routing and Security · Inter-AS QoS specification, translation, and adaptation · Inter-AS Service Level Agreement (SLA) and Service Level Specification (SLS) issues · Dynamic state-dependent QoS Policies · Stateless QoS Routing Frameworks · Constraint-based Path Selection Algorithms · Inter-AS QoS Traffic shaping and Traffic Management · Complexity, Stability, Performance of Inter-AS QoS Routing Approaches · Inter-AS QoS Constraints, Scalability, Robustness, and Reactivity · Economic models of Inter-AS Routing Policies on Pricing and Billing · Standardization issues

Manuscript submission:

Authors must submit their manuscript (single column, double-spaced) electronically in PDF format by email to the corresponding guest editor (mellouk@univ-paris12.fr) before the deadline. Please also include information about the manuscript (title, complete list of authors, corresponding author's contact, abstract, and keywords) in the body of your submission email message. Articles are expected to be in English, 15-25 pages each and will be peer reviewed by at least three experts working in the areas.

Guest Editors

Abdelhamid Mellouk (corresponding guest editor) Department of Network and Telecommunication, LISSI/SCTIC Laboratory, IUT Creteil/Vitry, University of Paris XII-Val de Marne, France mellouk@univ-paris12.fr

Sherali Zeadally Network Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, USA szeadally@udc.edu

Peter Mueller IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland pmu@zurich.ibm.com _______________________________________________ Tccc mailing list Tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc