-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: IEEE COM MAGAZINE SPECIAL FEATURE TOPIC Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:57:58 -0500 From: Ibrahim Habib habib@ccny.cuny.edu Reply-To: habib@ccny.cuny.edu To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu CC: Andrzej Jajszczyk jajszczyk@kt.agh.edu.pl, awduche@awduche.com

Dear Friends and Colleagues Please note the following CFP: Deadline for Papers Sumission is April 1st.

Call for Papers: IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topic on "Advances in Control and Management of Connection-Oriented Networks" The objective of this feature topic is to report to the community recent research and development activities in the general area of control and management of connection-oriented networks enabled by techniques such as MPLS label switched paths, MPLS pseudo-wire emulation, VLANs, and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS). Dynamic control of connection oriented networks entails the implementation of capabilities within the network for state information management, resource allocation, decision making, and action invocation. These capabilities are manifested through sophisticated control plane algorithms and protocols for path computation, routing, and signaling. Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)/Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) protocols have attained a high level of maturity to the extent that many network equipment vendors are now augmenting their products with MPLS and GMPLS software and major carriers are now providing mission critical MPLS-based IP VPN services as a cost-effective alternative to traditional point-to-point TDM private lines. At the same time, recent advancements in the area of MPLS and GMPLS control plane technologies have led to the proposition that it is possible to develop a unified control plane construct that can be used for different types of connection oriented networks, encompassing a broad range of switching technologies.

Scope of contributions

Original contributions of a tutorial nature are solicited that cover the topics including but not limited to:

Novel architectures for MPLS and GMPLS networks Inter-domain routing and signaling

Routing and signaling for heterogeneous paths

Automatic discovery techniques

Call and connection management

Multi-layers protection and restoration

Transport Protocols protocols for high speed connections

Distributed versus centralized management solutions

Security of control plane messages

Pseudo-wire emulation

Resource allocation in and contention resolution in multi-layer networks

Integrated network control and management

Control interconnection models

Interfaces to dynamically controlled optical networks

Intelligent network control middleware

Multi-layer traffic engineering

Control plane design

Testbeds and field trials

Schedule: Full article submission: April 1, 2006 Acceptance/rejection/revision: July 1, 2006 Revised manuscripts: August 1, 2006 Final manuscripts due: October 1, 2006 Publication date: December 2006

Submission of the papers:

For manuscript submission, the authors should follow the IEEE Communications Magazine guidelines under "Information for Authors" at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/sub_guidelines.html.

Manuscripts should be submitted through Manuscript Central at http://commag-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. Please select "December 2006/Advances in Control and Management of Connection-Oriented Networks" in the drop down menu.

Guest Editors:

Ibrahim Habib City University of New York. USA Email: habib@ccny.cuny.edu

Andrzej Jajszczyk AGH University of Science and Technology Poland Email: jajszczyk@kt.agh.edu.pl

Daniel Awduche MCI Global Network Engineering USA Email: awduche@awduche.com

-- Professor Ibrahim Habib Director of Advanced Networking Research Lab Department of Electrical Engineering City University of New York 140 street at Convent Avenue N.Y., N.Y. 10031

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