CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

RECENT ADVANCES IN MANAGING ENTERPRISE NETWORK SERVICES

The next generation of enterprise network services is expected to be emerging as a complex plethora of hardware and software components, communication media, architectures, protocols and standards. The advancements in wireless and optical data communication, storage devices and networks, high productivity data and application servers, distributed and real-time computing, business process re-engineering, artificial intelligence, and IPv6 Internet are enabling new enterprise network services which exhibit new qualities in performance, service provisioning, application coverage, and user-oriented customization and mobility. The scope of this issue is to address the research and development efforts of the aforementioned topics. We are interested in papers dealing with state-of-the-art design and analysis, implementation, experimental results and case studies in related topics including (not limited to) the following list: • Mobile enterprise strategies and enabling wireless technologies • Enterprise network security management • Global and virtual enterprise: requirements, architectures, and technology alternatives • Real-time enterprise management: models, technologies and applications • Enterprise portals and web services • Enterprise IP-based services: SIP, ENUM and other developments • Enterprise service integration platforms, tools, and standards • Next generation enterprise data centers and storage area networks • Novel architectures for intelligent enterprise management • Semantic information processing and knowledge management for enterprises • QoS and enterprise service automation • Enterprise network planning and optimization • Data mining and enterprise service discovery methods and tools • Case studies and enterprise vertical market applications

Original, unpublished contributions prepared in accordance to the IEEE J-SAC format will be considered. Electronic submission in PDF format ONLY should be sent to one of the guest editors listed below:

Manuscript Due:

MAY 1, 2004

Acceptance Notification:

January 1, 2005

Final Manuscript Due:

April 1, 2005

Publication:

4th Quarter 2005

Prof. Pradeep Ray University of New South Wales Australia p.ray@unsw.edu.au

Prof. Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo Canada rboutaba@uwaterloo.ca

Prof. Lundy Lewis Southern New Hampshire University USA lundylewis@prexar.com

Dr. Gabriel Jakobson Altusys Corp USA jakobson@altusys.com