Call for Papers

CfP available as PDFas well.

Scope

Key issues for competitive communication systems include the design, implementation, and provisioning of Quality-of-Service (QoS). These tasks require for tomorrows Internet an emerging research and new methods, which combine technical and economic parameters related to networks, services, and applications.

While the emphasis of QofIS’02 is on technology for an end-to-end and top-down provisioning of QoS, covering the Internet and the end-system, ICQT’02 focusses on the economics of QoS and the required technology in support of charging. Both workshops target the identification of solutions, investigations of their feasibility, and a consolidation of technical and economic mechanisms to enable a fast, guaranteed, and efficient provisioning of QoS-based services in the Internet.

List of Topics

	QofIS’02	ICQT’02
	Traffic modeling and classification	Economic models for the Internet
	Traffic policing and scheduling	Internet pricing and tariffing
	QoS mapping and negotiation	Internet charging technology
	QoS routing	Internet accounting and billing
	QoS signaling	ISP cost and business models
	Traffic engineering	Charging for differentiated services
	End-to-end QoS support	Charging for mobile services
	Policy-based QoS control	Application service provider models
	Middleware QoS	Security mechanisms for charging
	Active Internet services	Monitoring and measurements
	End-to-end services	Management of Service Level Agreements
	QoS in mobile environments

 

Papers and Submissions

Papers are solicited as full papers (in English), of no more than 10 single-spaced pages, each of which will be subject to a full review process. Submissions should follow already the author guidelines as specified below and must include: title, authors, affiliations, 100-word abstract, and a list of maximum five keywords. The author responsible for correspondence should be identified clearly, including the author’s name, position, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address.

An electronic, PDF-based submission of papers is mandatory, please check the URL http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~qofis02 for further submission instructions.

The conference proceedings are published as hard-copy and electronically by Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series. They will be availabe during the event. Authors are obliged to follow the LNCS’s guidelines in preparing their manuscript. Author guidelines with respect to the final camera ready paper formats are to be followed without exception, including the 10 page limit, and may be obtained at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

Important Dates

	Deadline for submissions	May 12, 2002
	Notification of acceptance	July 5, 2002
	Start of online registration	July 10, 2002
	Camera-ready version	August 2, 2002
	End of online registration	September 30 , 2002
	Workshop dates	October 16-18, 2002

General Information

The final program will accommodate in sequence on October 16 and 17, 2002 the single-track QofIS’02 workshop and on October 18, 2002 the single-track ICQT’02 workshop. The registration fee for this event will include both workshops.

For more information on the co-located events QofIS’02/ICQT’02 please visit the following URLs http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/~qofis02 or http://www.ftw.at/icqt02.

Committee

The workshops’ committees may be accessed here.