The Fourth IEEE Conference on
Open Architectures and
Network Programming

Call for Papers and Demos

Short Papers Session - Call for Papers

The Fourth IEEE Conference on Open Architectures and Network Programming invites your participation in this lively international forum on open, programmable, and active networks.

Advances in open signaling and control, programming network elements, active networks, mobility management, transportable software, Web-based services access, and distributed systems technologies are redefining network software architectures and evolving control and management systems away from traditional constrained solutions. OPENARCH 2001 will foster understanding of these new network software architectures and techniques, and progress toward more flexible and robust network interfaces.

In the spirit of the previous meetings, OPENARCH 2001's single-track format will provide researchers and developers with a focused, highly interactive opportunity to present and discuss current work and future directions in active and programmable networks. Authors are invited to submit full and short papers for consideration. Suggested topics include:

  • Advances in active networks
  • Open and innovative signaling systems
  • Programming abstractions and interfaces for networks
  • Service creation platforms
  • Programming for mobility
  • Programming for Quality of Service
  • Intelligent agents and trading
  • Distributed computing models and algorithms
  • Security in an open object world
  • Support for multiple control planes
  • Control and resource APIs and object representations
  • Performance of control architectures
  • Experimental architectures and implementation techniques
  • Enabling technologies, platforms and languages (CORBA, WWW, Java, ...)
  • Reliability of programmable networking technologies
  • Modeling of network services
  • Programmability support for virtual networks
  • Interactive multimedia, multi-party cooperation and groupware
  • Pricing and real-time billing
  • Secure transactions processing and electronic commerce
  • Active networks in telephony

Instructions for authors and demonstrators

Papers of no more than 10 finished (single-spaced) pages, excluding figures, are solicited. The cover page of each submitted paper should include paper title, brief abstract, list of keywords, author(s) full name(s), affiliation(s) and complete address(es), telephone number(s), and email address(es).

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION IS ADVISABLE. Authors are requested to submit papers in PDF format. Instructions for electronic submissions are available at:
http://www.openarch.org/2001_submit.html

All submissions will be carefully reviewed by international experts and returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure high quality. Accepted paper(s) will be published in a bound Conference Proceedings. A CD-ROM version is being considered as well.

Deadline for receipt of papers 
Notification of acceptance mailed 
Final camera-ready papers due

 
        

October 6, 2000 
November 15, 2000 
December 31, 2000 

Presentation of demonstrations

Proposals for demonstrations, in PDF, Postscript or Microsoft Word/Powerpoint format, should be submitted to the Program Chair on the above schedule. Demonstrators are encouraged to provide their own computing and display equipment, but special requests will be considered. Dial-up Internet access will be available.

Financial Support

A limited number of travel stipends are available. Students whose papers are accepted and who will present the paper themselves are encouraged to apply if such assistance is needed. Requests for stipends should be addressed to the Program Chair or a Program Committee member in the requestor's region. A limited number of IEEE Communications Society Student Travel Grants may be available for student authors from outside North America.

Organizing Committee

Program Committee (members of the OC are also members of the PC):