-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] End-to-End Service Differentiation Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:55:54 -0500 (EST) From: Teresa A Dahlberg tdahlber@uncc.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu

Workshop on End-to-End Service Differentiation (EESD 2004) in conjunction with IPCCC 2004 Phoenix, Arizona April 14-17, 2004 http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/eesd04

Scope:

Differentiated Services (DiffServ) is a proposed architecture by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in which various ap- plications are supported using a simple classification scheme. Packets entering the DiffServ domain are handled depending on the packets' class. However, for many QoS-sensitive applications, such as e-commerce and steaming media, QoS differentiation at the network layer alone may be insufficient to guarantee the applica- tion's QoS requirements. Such applications require end-to-end QoS differentiation. End-to-end QoS guarantees require service dif- ferentiation mechanisms throughout the protocol stack, as well as in the middleware, the operating system and even in the applica- tions.

We are interested in visionary, experimental, systems-related and work in-progress papers in the area of QoS differentiation at the network, middleware, operating system and application levels. Pa- pers in the form of extended abstracts should describe original, previously unpublished work, not currently under review by anoth- er conference, workshop, or journal. Papers accepted for presen- tation will be published in the IPCCC conference proceedings. The workshop will also include invited papers.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to - Differentiated services architectures - Application-level service differentiation - Policybased QoS differentiation - Packet classification and marking - Packet scheduling algorithms and implementations - Differentiated buffer management - QoS across heterogeneous link technologies - QoS for mobile application support - Active network support for QoS differentiation - Content-aware switches - Multi-level admission control - QoS-aware operating systems - QoS differentiation for e-commerce and m-commerce - QoS-aware web server architec tures - Service differentiation via web caching - Service differentiation via content distribution networks - QoS support for storage networks - QoS support for networked games

Submission:

Authors are encouraged to submit their papers electronically. The documents must follow Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). To do so, follow the relevant link on the workshop home page http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/eesd04/submit.html

Papers are in the form of extended abstracts, 5-8 pages long. A cover page must include a title, descriptive keywords, all au- thor's names, complete mailing addresses, telephone numbers, e- mail addresses and an abstract of up to 150 words. Papers accept- ed for presentation will be published in the IPCCC conference proceedings. For any further information, please check the work- shop web page at http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/eesd04 or the IPCCC main web page (http://ipccc.org/) or send e-mail to the program co-chairs eesd04-chairs@cs.ualberta.ca

Important Deadlines:

Submission Deadline: ** DECEMBER 6, 2003 ** Acceptance Notification: December 29, 2003 Camera-Ready Received: January 26, 2004 Workshop: April 14-17, 2004

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