-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] December 1-Deadline extension for JSAC SI on Intelligent Services and Applications in Next Generation Networks Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:12:29 -0400 From: Mohsen Guizani mguizani@cs.wmich.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu CC: Josef Huber josef-franz.huber@icn.siemens.de, Mario Gerla gerla@cs.ucla.edu

Based on numerous inquiries, the deadline for paper submission to the JSAC Special on "Intelligent Services and Applications in Next Generation Networks" has been extended to December 1, 2003. Please announce this and pass it to your colleagues. Details of the call is given below.

Regards, Mohsen Guizani Mario Gerla ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Special issue on Intelligent Services and Applications in Next Generation Networks

Next generation networks are expected to be very complex systems interconnecting different technologies and architectures across various software platforms. No single technology or architecture will be able to smoothly glue together such complex systems into a single network of all networks. DSL and Cable once dominating the access networks will be challenged by new cheap alternatives such as Optical Ethernet, Wireless LANs, Fixed Wireless Access systems such as LMDS, and even dark fiber. Metro networks will also be dominated by an array of technologies from Multiple Service Protocol Platforms (MSPP) to resilient packet rings (RPR) to 10 GB-Ethernet switches, and even OXC switching nodes. The backbone will be superhighways utilizing DWDM, OXC nodes interconnecting Gigabit and Terabit IP routers. 3G and beyond mobile networks will be a corner stone in extending communications services to mobile users.New Services and applications will be supported on these complex systems through upper layer middleware software platforms. These services will no longer be independent static sources of content, rather will have intelligent software to adapt those sources to varying networks conditions, technologies, and platforms. This will be achieved through another intelligent layer of cognitive middleware that is capable of interfacing these services to the underlying network technologies. New services must be capable of receiving information about the network and adaptively tune their transport parameters as well as bit-rates according to the underlying networking conditions/technologies. New Services and contents will need to understand networking traffic parameters, and react accordingly in order to maintain smooth traffic flows in the network and avoid skewness behaviors.

The scope of this special issue is to address the research and development efforts of the aforementioned various issues in the area of intelligent services and applications in next generation networks. In particular we are interested in papers dealing with state-of-the-art design and analysis, implementation and experimental results of cognitive and intelligent software agents/services and applications as well as novel architectures for intelligent content delivery. In this context, topics include:

. Cognitive middleware . Cognitive Software Agents . Cognitive Services and applications . Novel architectures for intelligent content delivery . Adaptive QoS provisioning issues . Peer-to-peer networking . Adaptive rate video encoding . Intelligent traffic management and control . Experimental test-beds and results . Programmable services interfaces . Intelligent Transport and Routing Protocols . Adaptive, congestion controlled multicast / management and control . Intelligent algorithms . Service-aware congestion and traffic control protocols . Wireless and Mobile issues for intelligent services . Adaptive security issues . Case studies

Original, unpublished contributions prepared in accordance to the IEEE J-SAC format will be considered. PAPERS NOT RELATED TO ONE OF THE ABOVE LISTED TOPICS WILL NOT BE REVIEWED. ONLY electronic submissions in PDF format can be sent to any of the listed guest editors. The following timetable shall apply:

Manuscript Submission: December 1, 2003 Acceptance Notification: May 1, 2004 Final Manuscript Due: July 1, 2004 Publication: 1st Quarter 2005

Mohsen Guizani, Professor & Chair Department of Computer Science Western Michigan University Email: mguizani@cs.wmich.edu

Mario Gerla, Professor Computer Science Department UCLA Email: gerla@cs.ucla.edu

Mamoru Sawahashi, NTT DoCoMo, Japan E-mail: sawahasi@mlab.yrp.nttdocomo.co.jp

Josef F. Huber Siemens, Germany Email: josef-franz.huber@icn.siemens.de

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