The Third IEEE Conference on
Open Architectures and Network Programming

The Third IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming invites participation in this international forum on open programmable networks. Advances in open signaling and control, active networks, mobility management, transportable software, Web-based services access, and distributed systems technologies are driving a reexamination of existing network software architectures and the evolution of control and management systems away from traditional constrained solutions.

OPENARCH 2000 will foster a better understanding of network software architecture and the techniques becoming available to make it simpler, more flexible, and more robust. In the spirit of the first and second conferences, OPENARCH 2000 will provide researchers and developers with a focused opportunity to present and discuss current work and future directions in the systems, techniques, and performance of open architectures. There will be an official Proceedings. To complement the papers track, OPENARCH 2000 offers a session for the demonstration of experimental open programmable network prototypes.

OPENARCH is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and will be co-located and organized in conjunction with INFOCOM 2000.